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A few months ago I spent a week in Cambodia photographing a commission for SilkAir's inflight magazine, Silkwinds. With my assigned shooting completed -- and an afternoon free before my flight back to Singapore -- I decided to visit the majestic, millennium-old Angkor Wat temple complex on the outskirts of the Siem Reap, a small provincial cluster of old villages nestled between rice paddies and stretching along the Siem Reap River.
Angkor is a sanctuary of immense artistic and archaeological significance and doubtlessly one of the most breathtaking architectural masterpieces left standing in the world today.
Having been privileged enough to tour and photograph Angkor twice before, I wanted to try and capture the ancient city differently on this visit. So, with my Nikon D3x and Diana+ 55mm and 110mm plastic lenses, I spent four glorious hours wandering and making photographs inside the walled city that served as the capital of the Khmer Empire at the start of the 12th century.
See more of my Diana Experiment imagery on Flickr.
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Huge props to you for doing something different here Scott. I’ve seen many high quality pictures of Angkor Wat, as one would expect. But I’ve not seen anything like this before.
Great stuff.
Comment by David Peacock — July 29, 2010 @ 8:26 PM