Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful people Tina. And kudos to Tom who apparently upgraded from water-bearer to very apt assistant ;-) Amities Philippe > Le 7 f?vr. 2019 ? 20:05, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information