Fishing village Duy Hai

Anita and I signed up for a sunrise photographic tour of Duy Hai, a small fishing village, with Etienne Bossot of Hoi An Photo Tours. We were picked up before sunrise, on the ferry just about the time the sun came over the horizon. The boat ride was smooth and short. The photo below is later ferry, not ours.

Etienne was a very good leader, he gave instruction to those who asked for it and had his assistant David lead the rest of us to the most promising areas for photos.
Duy Hai is a village of about 2,000 people at the mouth of the Thu Bon river who's livelihood is based on catching and processing fish to be shipped to China.
Conical hats are an iconic image of Vietnam; I never had any idea how hard it is to photograph a conical hat. Because of the shape, they are almost always reflecting sunlight and therefore burned out to white. How then do I create a portrait of someone wearing a conical hat without having the hat overpower the face? After some trial and error, I came up with the solution, you shoot from below, get the face and the underside of the hat. In the portrait below shooting from below worked, unfortunately, the sky did not cooperate.

There were two other items that caught my attention other than portraits, coracles (the round boats) and

fish processing plant and drying process.