[Leica] [OM] IMG: The Bus

[Philippe]

Beautiful people Tina.

And kudos to Tom who apparently upgraded from water-bearer to very apt assistant ;-)


Amities

Philippe



> Le 7 févr. 2019 à 20:05, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> Thanks, guys!  I've never seen worse traffic than Bangladesh and the rural
> roads are almost non-existent!  More photos coming soon.
> 
> Here is a Dhaka street scene that Tom took with my M240:
> http://www.pbase.com/image/168788227
> 
> I appreciate your taking a look.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:04 AM Chris Barker <ftog at threeshoes.net> wrote:
> 
>> Well done getting home safely, Tina.
>> 
>> That’s a different viewpoint of a bus, but I can imagine that most will
>> have damage to the exterior.  I used to live in Calcutta and Delhi and it
>> was a similar situation there.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>> On 7 Feb 2019, at 13:44, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm home!  I've downloaded all of the photos and am now starting to edit
>>> them.  Here's the first.  Did I mention the traffic in Bangladesh??  We
>>> always thought the worst traffic in the world was in Tehran, Iran, but
>>> there is a new contender.  I have never seen worst traffic than in
>>> Bangladesh!  Nobody pays any attention to the street lights, the lane
>>> markers, or the police standing in the street waving their sticks.  The
>>> only traffic control is the horn which everybody blows constantly.  Every
>>> bus looks like this one:
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589 <
>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589>
>>> 
>>> The buses are independently owned and make money by getting people to
>> their
>>> destination as fast as possible and loading up another bus full of people
>>> to deliver.
>>> 
>>> This is with the M240 and 24/2.8 out of the window.  I took lots of
>> photos
>>> out of the car windows since we were stuck in traffic for hours and hours
>>> and hours every time we tried to go anywhere!
>>> 
>>> I'll be adding more photos to this site as I edit them and posting some
>> on
>>> FB.  Comments are greatly appreciated, always.
>> 
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