2013, Day 61 - Building 3

This is one of the large sheds were salt, once dried, is stored.  They are packed, literally, to the rafters and in the afternoon sun are like ovens.  Yet men toil away inside bagging and weighing salt to be sent all over the world.  When this picture was taken it was almost time to harvest the rice and the only work being done on the fields was maintenance.  Once the harvest was completed the farmers would have sent to work on the salt fields and soon the daytime highs would rise and salt production would be enormous.

Canon 1D X, Canon 24-70/f2.8L Mark II
24mm, f2.8, 1/5000 sec @ 100 ISO

2013, Day 48 - Remnant

I found the remains of this little guy as we wandered through the salt fields near Kep.  He probably got washed in when the fields were filled and, because it was the off season, found little food to forage.

Canon 1D X, Canon 70-200/f2.8L IS Mark II
200mm, f2.8, 1/2000 sec @ 100 ISO

2012, Day 364 - Salt sauna

This is one of the work crew we met when we went out to the salt fields in Kampot.  Near the roads adjacent to large open fields are rough wooden sheds.  Each is filled to the rafters with salt and when orders are placed a crew is sent to start bagging.  There were about a dozen men working when we arrived to fill what we were told was a small order; one thousand fifty kilogram bags.  That is over one hundred thousand pounds and the bagging was supposed to be finished in a single day.

As if that wasn't bad enough the sun was beating down on the corrugated steel roof making the shed like a sauna.  It was nice to see I wasn't the only one sweating but everyone else was working a lot harder than me.  All I could think as I watched the men work was that the salt must be sucking the moisture out of them and if they aren't careful they are all going to end up empty husks.

Canon 1D X, Canon 24-70/f2.8L Mark II
70mm, f2.8, 1/160 sec @ 250 ISO