[wulinka]

The variety of vehicles that are crowding the streets here is quite amazing, and I would like to capture some of it.
There are overloaded bicycles, tricycles, motorized and roofed tricycles, man-pulled carts, tractors, or basically any moving gear put in front of your cargo - there you go.

I have tried many times to get a good picture of one of the public buses to start with. I want a (series of) picture(s) from which the viewer can hear the rattle and clanging of lose parts as the bus goes by, can get the feeling of riding in a bus with no mufflers (as in both, buffer and exhaust), can smell the bad air inside at overcrowded rushhours, the delight you feel everytime you arrive somewhere and the vehicle has not broken down on the way. I would like to show the way the buses go around the curve way too fast, barely slow down towards the bus stop as the bus assistant already opens the door and announces the destination of the line, the hopping on and off of passengers often on the roll....

But somehow I can't get them framed. neither portrait nor landscape seem suitable, the angle is always wrong, even if I aim at 8x10 format crops. also I should be doing something like panning to convey the motion of it all.
I also tried using the flash to improve the lighting in the pics, where riders of a bike etc most often appear too dark against the lighter (sky) background, but wasn't very successful with it.

Anyway, I feel like all I have got so far is nowhere near what I want to get.
Can anyone help me?

any input is appreaciated much!

Uli

I put the pics back in, they are just showing how much I am NOT getting what I am thinking of....: