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A pensive rickshaw-puller is lost in thoughts as he waits for the next passenger.
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Taken in front of Drik Gallery at Dhanmondi.
This shot was taken during my first try, to do panning..........
was actually taken quite some time ago.......but never dared to upload it.....
but the colours attract me quite a bit.....so finally decided to upload this one.......
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As of 2005, the last sizeable fleet of true rickshaws can be found in Kolkata (Calcutta), where the rickshaw puller union resisted prohibition. Several major streets have been closed to rickshaw traffic since 1972, and in 1982 the city seized over 12,000 rickshaws and destroyed them. In 1992, it was estimated that over 30,000 rickshaws were operating in the city, all but 6,000 of them illegally, lacking a license (no new licenses have been issued since 1945). The large majority of rickshaw pullers rent their rickshaws for a few dollars per shift
Most rickshaw pullers work barefeet -- pulling their load over Calcutta's uneven potholed roads. This one is lucky -- he has flip-flops. Can you imagine pulling a rickshaw with flip-flops on? And they go quite fast too.
May 2020 : Abul Khair , a rickshaw puller who was at the rickshaw garage he keeps his rickshaw. He said that he is 75 years old but still he has to work as a rickshaw puller at this ripe old age because his sons and daughters are not financially capable to support him. During the lockdown for Covid-19 crisis his income has been drastically fallen. He used to earn around 400 BDT (4.7 USD) per day but now his income has been fallen to around 150 BDT (1.8 USD) per day, which doesn't cover his daily expenses.
Accommodations behind the geisha houses in the Gion district in Kyoto, Japan. I had outlined the reasons for such narrow alleys and geisha houses earlier in this album (see previous picture). Detailed notes about geisha (called geiko here in Kyoto) and maiko (trainee geisha) appeared earlier in this album. (see previous pictures). I am on a human powered rickshaw ride around the Gion district of Kyoto and all these pictures are taken from the vehicle. My rickshaw puller-guide was very clear about restrictions in photographing in this area and said although once can take pictures from the vehicle, he is not allowed to stop (except to take an U turn) or take pictures of or for tourists in this area or allow them to get off the rickshaw to do so. (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Tourists milling about at the entrance of a celebrity lane in the Gion district of Kyoto, Japan. I had passed this lane earlier on a human powered tourist rickshaw (see previous pictures earlier in this album) but have returned later on my own, on foot, hoping to explore the geisha street at leisure. Sadly, I was initially in a totally wrong part of town and no one knew what the hell I was on about, and one wizened old gent in a pharmacy actually looked rather scandalized and gestured to me to bugger off! When I eventually found the right place, I could not spot the geisha street, nor did anyone know where it was, but I at least managed to find this lane for a few pictures. I however started raining heavily soon after this and I was forced to beat a hasty retreat by taxi, back to my hotel. This little land has apparently featured in many Japanese movies and tv serials and has a bit of a celebrity status. (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
I am on a human powered rickshaw ride through a historic part of the Gion district in Kyoto, Japan, a ride the rickshaw puller convinced me to take despite my own reservations about sitting in a vehicle powered by another fellow human being. We are now on a pleasant thoroughfare lined with sakura (cherry blossom) trees in bloom and a canal behind them on one side of the street and traditional Japanese wooden houses on the other. The street seemed to be quite popular with the locals and tourists alike. I later returned to this part of town on foot but it unfortunately started raining by then. (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
I am on a human powered rickshaw ride in Kyoto, Japan. Operated by the Kyoto- EBISUYA Higashiyama Rickshaw company, I am quite outside my comfort zone as I am quite wary of sitting in a vehicle with another human being playing beast of burden. My rickshaw puller-guide however assured me that this is part of the Japan government's tourism promotion drive and it helps the locals and tourists understand each other better. Be that as it may, my rickshaw puller stopped by this elegant structure. 'Traditional old Japanese wooden house', h pointed out. Well, looks cool, doesn't it? (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Crowds of tourists out for a walk on the pleasant sakura (cherry blossom) lined lane along a canal in the Shirakawa district of Gion in Kyoto, Japan. I am on a human powered rickshaw ride down this lanel. I later came by on this lane on foot but I was lost and was trying to find my way and hence did not enjoy the experience on foot as much as I am doing now on the rickshaw. But it was an extremely pleasant experience even on foot nonetheless, with several sakura (cherry blossom) blooms still seen owing to a one weeklate blooming season this year. (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
He has a bed (if you agree to call that one) and a means of getting something to eat (I am too unreasonable to call that butter). That's it and who knows probably that's enough for him to have a good night's sleep! Life has portrayed itself so differently to different people...
Rickshawpullers are the only saviours in the flooded streets of Kolkata during Monsoon. They brave the waters in the clogged streets of Kolkata to take you to your destination; at some places water may even rise up to your bust. They charge you three to four times the normal rate, but this is quite reasonable. They take lots of risk since at some places the water might even be charged electrically by some open electrical wires.
Now this one caught me totally by surprise! A human powered rickshaw pulling along a delighted Chinese tourist! Both the rickshaw puller and the passenger were all smiles and the lady readily agreed to let me photograph her- and no, I did not make them stop. Carmen Roberts, my favourite presenter from the BBC Travel show had taken a joy ride on one of these. She had gone on about the kind of training the rickshaw pullers had to undergo and she even dressed up in a ninja suit for the ride. Frankly, I least expected to encounter these myself! I later took a ride on one of these from the Sensoji temple= more notes and pictures appear later on as we go along in this album. (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Lagerstroemia speciosa, Crape-Myrtle/Crepe-Myrtle/, Banabá, in Bangla commonly known as "Jarul" (জারুল). Picture taken at Fuller Road, University of Dhaka.
Thought an edgier look might be worth trying out. Not quite come to grips with it yet, but well.
Strangely enough, rickshawpullers with glasses are fairly rare.
Strobist: Bare GN28 flash on camera left, triggered by cable.
OT: A bunch of things going on here. For one, I thought I'd set aside the supersync monster than is my D40 for a couple of days and learn to do things the way most other folks have to. Having started out on handicap hill, I thought it would be even more fun with the worst sensor I could get my hands on at the time. And thus, my along came my sister's D3000. Originally, this image was badly over exposed - this is 2 stops down, just to pull back the highlights a wee bit. I think it shows, but on the whole - it's still something I'd try again. It's - intriguing, having more depth of field than you know what to do with.
I do wish I had a snoot with me, though. Oh well, you learn something new every day.
He has been a security guard for many years. But the low salary and ever increasing prices had forced him to shift to the riskier profession of rickshaw pulling. He is doing much better now he says.
Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
I was walking down the street from my hotel to the Senso-ji temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo when I encountered a human powered rickshaw hauling a delighted Chinese tourist. Both rickshaw puller and tourist were only too happy to let me take their picture. Human powered rickshaws were once the rage all over SE Asia but have all largely been banned as they are considered inhuman. Also with education, less people are willing to ride a vehicle pulled by another human. But Japan is now trying to revive human powered rickshaws purely for tourists, and the rickshaw pullers have to put in several hours of exercise and training before they are allowed on the road. More notes and pictures of the ride I took myself appear later in this album. (Tokyo, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
Rickshaws are on their way out. Only in Central and Parrys corner have I seen them, that too not a popular mode of transport these days.
Location: Mohammadpur, Dhaka
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