Cambodia

Poling a dugout ferry across the river in ratanakiri

Ferry – កាណូត ឆ្លង ទន្លេ សេសាន

Dugout canoes act as ferrys across this section of the Sesan river. Note the guy sitting on his motorbike on the boat. 50 cents gets you across. Occasionally, something will go wrong and it’ll capsize, gracefully depositing the motorcycles on the river bottom. I’ve known a couple of people who it’s happened to; in fact, […]

highland minority man smokes a pipe

Organic pipe tobacco

I chatted idly with this older gentleman while were waiting at the hospital to transport a patient back home, his pipe dangling laconically from his mouth. Every year, he told me, he plants a few tobacco plants at his dryland rice farm, to supply him for the year. “It’s much cheaper than buying tobacco from […]

Red cashew fruit from an orchard in northeast cambodia

Cashews – ស្វាយ ចន្ទី នៅ រតនគីរី

Cashew fruit in Ratanakiri, Cambodia. The fruit tastes pretty astringent. I remember liking it and eating it often as a kid, but now that my tast buds have developed, I’m not a big fan. The actual cashew is that seed that’s hanging down below the fruit. In a way, cashews have transformed the lives of […]

rubber sap in ratanakiri province, cambodia

Raw Ratanakiri Rubber

Bowls for harvesting latex sap out of rubber trees in Ratanakiri, Cambodia. Rubber is pretty lucrative, especially for a small-time farmer. Even half a Hectare of young rubber trees can give the owner hundreds of dollars a year—not bad for a farmer in Cambodia. They take a knife and cut a 3-inch slit in the […]

cambodian weather patterns

April Clouds in Ratanakiri; Time Lapse Video — វីដេអូ ភ្លៀង ព្យះ នោ ខេត្ត រតនគីរី

I thought I’d post a quick video of some time lapse footage I’ve shot over the last week or so. The sky here the last couple weeks has been incredible. April and May in Cambodia has always shown some amazing weather patterns. The kind of thunderstorm that would be all over the news in the […]

Sandals, Etc – ‘បែច ជើង

Can you imagine the barbarism of walking into a house (or in this case, a church building) with your shoes on? When it’s my turn to discard my flip flops and climb the stairs, I always try to stick my shoes off to the side, or kind of hide them under the steps of the […]

clouds and sky after a monsoon rain in banlung, ratanakiri

Clouds after rain….

After a good afternoon rain, the sky is always incredibly beautiful here. Just stunning. This is a 9 image HDR vertorama. I tonemapped it in Photomatix, and then pulled in into Photoshop to add an adjustment layer of Levels to increase contrast, an adjustment layer of Curves to make the colors pop, and an adjustment […]

Old indigenous minority lady preparing betel nut to be chewed.

Gauges and Betel Nut

She had gauges before gauges were cool…. It’s funny how gauges are cool in the States in certain subcultures. Here among the Tampuan, Kreung and Jarai hilltribes, they’re popular among the senior citizen crowd. No indigenous teenager in their right mind would get gauges; that’s would be the American equivalent of wearing pleated, cuffed blue […]

A pretty young girl in Phnom Penh, Cambodge

Curious? ស្រ្តី ក្មេង មួយ នៅ ភ្នំ ពេញ

This little Cambodian girl eyed my wife and me impassively from her rickshaw—calm, serene, almost smiling…. we smiled, but she seemed shy. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your blog, for fun and the like, but please link to www.ethancrowley.com and give credit […]