Happy New Year every­one, sorry this new post took so long. This one was taken on the famed “Bam­boo Train”. It’s a Cam­bod­ian inven­tion (one of the kids told me proudly) and con­sists basic­ally of three parts: A motor, a very light bam­boo flat bed, and a pair of axles. This mod­u­lar built allows it to be assembled and taken apart again in a mat­ter of seconds, even by a bunch of kids. Those trains used to run between the offi­cial train ser­vice on the national rail­way net­work, and there is only one simple (and obvi­ous) rule: The lighter train gets out of the way (off the tracks) first…

I love this pic­ture with those cool kids enjoy­ing the free­dom of speed­ing down the twis­ted rails while mak­ing a few bucks off ran­dom tour­ists that made it out there. Pho­to­graphy­wise it was shot with a polar­ising fil­ter for increased sat­ur­a­tion and col­ours, with an elev­ated shut­ter speed as it was shak­ing quite a bit. I chose a rather wide angle of view in order to cap­ture those con­ver­ging lines from the bam­boo plat­form as well, which kind of intens­i­fies the whole pic­ture.

PS: Here’s a short video over on You­Tube where at about 2:00 the guy talks about this crazy form of train.