After photographing a woman with a water buffalo working the rice fields near the ancient city of Angkor, I spotted a man briskly walking two water buffalos down the road toward us. I crouched with my camera along the side of the road and waited, then suddenly he veered off the road and headed in a different direction. I ran toward him, and our guide Reth ran ahead of me and called out to the man in Khmer.
The man stopped the water buffalos and made them spin toward me, then stood perfectly still until I snapped the picture. I bowed with hands clasped together, the namaskar position whose Buddhist and Hindu origins mean "I salute you" throughout Southeast Asia, and he quickly returned the gesture before driving the water buffalos back toward his original destination.
Note the three-piece ensemble made up of denim jacket, bright krama scarf around the neck, and shiny blue speedo shorts. I didn't see anybody else dressed quite like this in Cambodia.