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Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, boat, farewell, river, Sunflower on Jun 20th, 2010
A lovely evening aboard the Sunflower on the Balu River outside of Dhaka city. A few nice friends, great food and drink, super cool breeze and a magical evening – low billowy clouds, then a pale but pretty sunset, and finally the moon lighting the way….
Posted in Ashulia, river, Surayia Rahman on Jun 13th, 2010
A few pictures taken from the window while driving back after photographing Surayia’s artwork at Saint Joesph’s Church in Dharenda village near Savar, passing familiar Ashulia and the brick kilns….
Posted in BBC Boats, boat, Kingfisher, Peacock on Feb 20th, 2010
Impromptu picnic aboard the Peacock, so we got together a few packs of wafers, drinks, hot-dogs and chicken cup-noodles… the ruckus the 3 girls created would have put a dozen boys to shame We decided to go down-river instead of the usual trip up-river, head past Isapura and then get as far as we could get [...]
Posted in Balu River, boat, fishermen, Sunflower, Wilder Thing on Dec 12th, 2009
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Posted in Balu River, boat, Peacock, Photography, river, Stein Naevdal, sunrise on Nov 21st, 2009
A photo trip with good friend Stein Naevdal up the Balu River aboard the Peacock - a traditional Bangladeshi motorized sailboat boat – on 20th November early morning just as the sun was rising. We got to Tolna [coordinates: 23°51'1.00" N 90°28'24.26"E] just before 7 AM in time to see the Peacock pulling up to the small [...]
Posted in Ashulia, Bangladesh, Dhaka, nature on Oct 9th, 2009
Kash Phul – Kans grass – Wild sugarcane -Â Saccharum spontaneum – “flowers” in the Autumn for a short while just after the rains have ended. The flowers [which are really the seeds escased in a tuft] will be gone in just a few days. Just had to go out early morning today to enjoy [...]
Drove out to Ashulia for lunch at Little Italy and spotted this purple house on the Turag. The river has become quite wide from all the heavy rain we have been having. The river dwindles down to a narrow strip before the monsoon rains come. You can see the width of the river behind the [...]