I love this photo, but I admit I did not actually take it knowing it would turn out like this. We were in the Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia, wandering/sweltering/dying of heatstroke around the hundred plus temples there, and I was just snapping photos here and there by this point in the day. Angkor is a much-photographed place, and is usually portrayed in either an artsy or Tomb Raider-esque way. Humor is not a large part of the photography scene there.
But that night when I went through my photos, I realized how comical this one looked. The tourist, a Japanese one no less, looks positively hunted by the enormous tree. I found the contrast in the image and the stereotype (the Japanese tourists in Cambodia are fairly intense, and by intense here I mean that I have almost been crushed to death several times by them) quite amusing. Hope you do too.
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