This is a combination of two photographs I took a few minutes apart from each other.  While it is not my preference to combine images, I thought the effect was quite moving, and so I post it here.  This man was one of the many watching a football (soccer for Americans) match being played at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh.  The stadium was completed in 1964, and was originally built to host the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, but the games were canceled due to political problems in Cambodia. During the regime of the Khmer Rogue, the stadium was used for executions. The stadium was redeveloped, and currently use used by many of those living in Phnom Penh as an exercise center.

I took this walking around the Olympic stadium in Phnom Penh (the same evening as all the others at the Olympic Stadium). I saw two monks walking my way and lined it up for a shot and here it is. Many monks are only monks for a short period of time trying to gain karma for their families, and then returning to their normal life. Monks go around their community collecting gifts of food and or money, and then give a “blessing” in a form of a chant in return. But most monks (let alone the recipients) do not understand the content of their many chants, but rather memorize them by rote.
In the background is a “Wat,” the Cambodian word for their Buddhist temple, the place of worship.