cambodia

An indigenous Brao highlander throwing a net.

Taken on the Se San river in Northeast Cambodia. He stands on the bow of the dugout, keeping a sharp lookout for fish just under the surface of the water. Then he casts his net to try his luck. So originally there was a hydroelectric dam slated to be built upstream, which would have displaced […]

indigenous minority Kreung man in Ratanakiri province, cambodia

អ៊ុំ ជន ជាតិ ក្រឹង

It’s been over a week since I posted last (so much for being a daily photoblog). So our DSL internet kept having problems; it would load all websites except WordPress, Twitter, Soundcloud, and a few others. There was some problem with the DNS servers, for you brainy people who know about such things. I finally […]

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 […]

talking and riding; a moped driver in Phnom Penh, Camboja

Life on Two Wheels

I shot these photo just a couple minutes apart, I thought it was pretty funny. Cambodians can do almost anything on the back of a scooter, including nap; You often see moto-taxi drivers napping on their bikes while they wait for a customer. I’m continually adding photos to this “Life on Two Wheels” photo series. […]

View from a Tuk Tuk at a traffic light; Phnom Penh

Traffic Light Community

In Cambodia, waiting for a light to turn green is a social gathering. People jocky for position, inching forward to occupy every possible centimeter of the coveted real estate towards the front of the pack. The scooters weave their way forward, snaking between the less maneuverable cars and tuk-tuks. Those making a right turn just […]