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My brother Matt Atkin has been out taking his amazing photos again – this time of working boats near Laos, on the Mekong River.
The haze is due to local crop burning, not to a fault in his camera!
For more of Matt’s photos, click here and scroll down.
 
 
More of Matt Atkin’s photos from the Cambodian floating village of  Tonle Sap on the River Mekong. To see more photos, click on part 1.
 
 
 
My brother Matt Atkin’s mission to photograph interesting boats and water-borne life throughout the Far East using his Fuju Finepix X100 continues with a mass of illuminating photos from near Siem Reap, Cambodia.
He tells me these shots are of the floating village of Tonle Sap on the River Mekong, which as well as floating homes, a floating school and shops, a floating church (it has a cross above in the photographs), and a temple. The entire village moves from time to time depending on the level of the river.
I must say I like the cute little outboard canoes driven by what could easily be petrol-driven strimmers, and intrigued by the shallows-dodging prop-rudder-steering doberries the larger boats have.
Keep out of the prop’s way, though, if you happen to fall in!
The next selection of shots from this collection will include kids in large washing bowls, and a hand-powered travelling shop.
