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Hilltribe Brao woman weaving a sleeping mat by hand

Mat Weaving – ត្បាញ កន្ទេល នៅ រតនគីរី

Ethnic Brao woman weaving a matt out of palm fronds. Shot in Ratanakiri, Northeast Cambodia. 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 to Ethan Crowley. All of my images […]

Pakse Rooftop

Pakse, Laos from rooftop restaurant Le Panorama

I’ve been in and out of internet the past four days, busy on a work trip to Laos. My first time in Laos has not disappointed. It’s an absolutely gorgeous country, the people are very nice, and the food is delicious. We spent a couple nights in Pakse in Southern Laos; there’s this cool rooftop restaurant called […]

Sun setting behind the mountains of the sesan river

Camping on the Sesan

I finally indulged my dream of camping on the beach a couple weeks ago. We were waaaay out in the middle of nowhere, miles downriver from Taveng (which is already just an outpost in the middle nowhere), just a few miles south of the National park. We drove out onto the beach in the 4-Runner […]

the post-stormy evening sky over taro plants

Sky after storm

As the rains begin in earnest, the swollen overtakes this spot. But for now, as the season transitions, it’s a beautiful area, right in the center of town. I love the taro plants in the foreground. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your […]

indigenous krung hilltribe man wearing a linkin park hat

Hardcore Linkin Park Fan? In Ratanakiri?

In the middle on nowhere in Ratanakiri, Cambodia; and here’s this Kreung indigenous hilltribe man, rockin’ the Linkin Park hat. He has no idea how hip he actually is. 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 […]

buddhist monk in cambodia, looking at the view

Soaking up the view….

Last minute upload… I know it looks instagrammy, but I thought i’d post it rather than miss a day…. Shot in Ratanakiri, Cambodia, at Yak Loum Crater Lake (coincidentally, both images on the wikipedia page are mine….) Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on […]

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 […]