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Cable Gang, Chittagong, January, 2005Canon 1Ds Mark II with 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens at ISO 400The DreamWhat if you had been dreaming of shooting in a unique and exotic location for several years, and had been actively planning to go there for the previous 12 months? Then, when the day arrived, you ended up with just one hour to fulfill your dream. This happened to me at the ship-breaking yards in Chittagong, Bangladesh in January, 2005.

We had left our hotel in Dhaka at 8am for what is usually a 6 hour drive to Chittagong. But some monster traffic caused by unannounced road construction added more than two hours to the trip, and we arrived at the yards at 4:30pm, just an hour before sunset.

Fortunately we were expected, and so were whisked though the yard's gates into a scene that can only be described as reminiscent ofDante's Inferno.

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The YardsI had metPierre Claquinon my January, 2004 photo-safari in Tanzania. He...

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