Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ > > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>