Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Regarding your bus image, now I know why we have so many accidents in Atlanta. We are a Mecca for East Asian immigrants. Tom's street scene does a good job conveying everyday life in Bangladesh. On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:40 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Oh Boy. Welcome back. I will get set for another great travel log of > places I will never get to. I enjoy all the ones you have posted in the > past and I look forward to this one. > > That is one busy street crammed with people. Love it. > > Aram > > On 2/7/2019 5:44 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > > PESO: > > > > 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 > > > > 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. > > > > Tina > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com