Last year I was fortunate enough to visit Cambodia for a month. While I was there, I experienced a mixture of city life, and smaller rural communities, which was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. I walked almost 60km through the Phnom Kulen national park and visited all the locations with huge cultural and religious impact there, such as the Reclining Buddha and the Bat Cave. As cool as all of this was, the best part for me had to be Angkor Wat and the rest of the Angkor archaeological park, including Bayon, and Ta Prohm, which was one of the filming locations of the Tomb Raider movie, alongside Phnom Kulen waterfall. I brought my NEX-5T with me on this trip, as the smaller and lighter camera was much easier to carry around on these big day trips. Over the course of the trip, I took over 2,000 photos over 2 SD cards. It was such an incredible experience to be able to take photos of such a unique country, and in an environment so vastly different to the one I’m used to. Photography felt so much easier when everything around me was cool, and unusual. I feel like a valuable photography lesson can be taken from this, which is that even if something is normal and boring for you, it might be new and interesting for someone else. The average shot for some people, might show an incredible new landscape for others.