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Subject: [Leica] [OM] IMG: The Bus
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 14:05:41 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1DgGtyOiESfkZ6DEozt1ZwH5fvfQKBjgTGpa0jUVTLv7w@mail.gmail.com> <D0063532-941B-4F51-AD96-199B7BBCC822@threeshoes.net>

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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