The Nikon D300 DSLR was able to capture this zoomed photo through the rolled up rear window of a car taking me to Lahore on a dusty Sargodha, Pakistan, road at about 80 kmph/50 mph. I changed the speed settings for the shots I took that day. These were taken at 1/3200 to 1/4000 seconds.
I hope to make a road trip through my country of birth one day, capturing scenes like this at liesure.
References to my favorite Pink Floyd song aside, the brick kilns are a primitive industry in which time has stood still, like the smoke barely floating above the chimney. Generations of poor people work there, and I believe the scourge of bonded or indentured labor still may exist in some areas.
It used to be kilns like this near Lahore that I used to go pick out brick lots for my home under construction in the early 1980s in Lahore.
© 2009 IMRAN
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