Angkor Wat

The first trip I made to Angkor Wat in Cambodia was in 1996. This was before social media and before the massive wave of selfie stick crazies ruined famous sites like Angkor with their sheer numbers. I hired four dancers to pose for me in the ruins, and there were perhaps a dozen people in the entire archeological site. One of my favorite portraits of the dancers was this shot of a 17 year old girl who was an excellent model. I loved the moss and lichen on the ancient stones, and the dancer was framed nicely by the window. I shot this with my Mamiya RZ 67, a 250mm lens (equivalent to a 135mm medium telephoto in the full frame digital format), and I always used a tripod in those days. My settings were unrecorded, but they were probably 1/125, f/5.6, and 50 ISO because for static subjects I always used Fujichrome Velvia.