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These women wanted my wife and I stop and drink tea! I had stopped quite often at this tea stand over the years, so they recognized me. They hadn’t seen my wife very often, and maybe not at all. We enjoyed the visit, and the complimentary cha!

Caged Birds

Bangladesh National Bird

Oriental Magpie Robin! This bird stood quite still for this portrait! Other birds were more elusive. I joined a group for the contest to see how many birds could be seen in 1 hour. I added the Orange-headed Thrush and Black-naped Oriole to my life list bringing it up to 324 species! I also recorded 13 other species, of which my favorite is the Rose-ringed Parakeet photographed below.

A bird coloring contest for children at the Bird Festival 2023 held at Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Bangladesh.

A nice birthday party! Starting off with a Cypriote Salad, and finishing up with Chocolate Cake!

Portraits I

The Reader

Experimenting with the Comic Preset!

I really do like the White Vignette Preset, thought what I really wanted was a nice sepia, but don’t know if I have a Sepia preset that I like!

One of the many mosques in Dhaka, which at one time was called the City of Mosques!

Patriotic

The Van Gari in top photo has the colors of the Bangladesh Flag! We hired a Van Gari to move the furnishings from our apartment to the one that Dustin rented when he down-sized since we were leaving. I was creative (or lazy) when I couldn’t find a photo of a flag in my current collection, to step out on the veranda and take a photo of this flag!

School buses from two different companies, with and without scholars! Assuming the one company tries to have a route that takes 10 minutes or less to get the children to school, or just decided on this catchy name! When I went to school “in the good old days,” I pedaled to school!