This is one of those photos that worked by accident. I was taking a riverboat down the Tonle Sap River, near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Watercraft of all descriptions plied up and down the river and on the lake at its end. To me, the most amazing were a kind of canoe that seemed to be just this side of sunken. Time after time I tried to get a good shot of one of these as their operators poled or rowed their way down the river. At one point this man piloted his canoe very close to the boat I was on. I only had a second to get the shot. When I looked at the image on my camera’s tiny LCD screen I felt that I had again failed to get the picture I wanted. I had been shooting into the sun, so the photo hadn’t come out at all. I was going delete the image from the memory card, but for some reason I decided to hold off.