This Khmer girl seemed happy enough to be helping her mother collect money for the bottles of water they sold at a local temple. I was happy to take her picture but I make it a practice never to give money to children or their parents to take their picture. Often once they realize they can get money from having their children beg or offer to have their picture taken the children will never be sent to school. The $1 you give them may be more than their parents can make in a week. When you want to help the families and children I recommend doing what we do and contributing to a local charity. Every trip I donate money and photographs to local causes.
Photo taken with Nikon D2H, 24-120mm lens at 58mm, f/13 at 1/60s.
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