Dana is here! Monkeys and Choeung Ek

My amazing wife Dana finally made it to Cambodia! Ah!! I am so excited that she is here! She got stuck in Korea for a whole day, and I will admit I was really worried for her. She was so brave, and I am very proud of her. She even let me take some portrait pictures of her!

We went to Watt Phnom for one of our first stops, and as luck would have it, we got to see some monkeys! Lucky for me a lady was looking out for me. The picture of the monkey drinking could have happened much sooner in our visit. I was too slow and didn't have a zoom lens on the camera. I was pretty bummed because it was going to be an awesome shot! I think this lady that was sitting next to us could tell I was pretty bummed about not getting the picture. So she walked up there and turned on the hose a little bit more and said "now that guy can get a picture of the monkey drinking." I am pretty grateful for her because I was able to shoot a couple of the monkeys drinking!

This other monkey found a dragon fruit husk. I thought it added some flavor to the picture! Silly monkeys.

This was a shot that I took from a friends house. I dig it!


Choeung Ek is one of the many killing fields that the Khmer Rouge used to kill "the enemy." This stoopa is the largest memorial stoopa for the victims of Pol Pot's regime. Earlier in the week I took Dana to Toul Sleng, and it was very humbling to see her going to these places. She had read some books about the Khmer Rouge era, and she said it was very interesting to actually see the places that this took place in. Choeung Ek hit me pretty hard as well, just to see the place where men, women, and children were slaughtered. I am humbled to see these people keep pushing forward even after this terrible thing happened.







On another note, I took my first family pictures this week! I am pretty excited, because I did it for a refugee from Sri Lanka. His family is pretty poor, and they don't have family pictures to speak of. My Branch President at church asked if I would take some pictures of some members to give them an opportunity to have family pictures. I of course agreed and I am pretty happy with how they came out! Just took some basic ones but it really warms my heart to do something like this for a family. I think we take pictures for granted some times. For some reason the pics won't upload maybe next blog!

I am so happy my wife is here. It has been so fun getting to see her experience this country. We've had tons of laughs as well as tons of emotional moments with the history of Cambodia. Thanks to all the people that check these out. It really does help me more than you know! Thanks for your support.