Toraja man giving bucket shower to his water buffalo - Sulawesi Island, Indonesia

Water buffalo are very important in the Toraja culture, and they treat them very well. Buffalos are a kind of spiritual bridge between the living and the dead.

The buffalo totally enjoys the clean shower, as it spends most of its time in the muddy water of rice fields.

It was a very photogenic scene, but technically hard to take the photos at high shutter speed in low light. Luckily, I was able to process the high ISO sensor noise with very good AI-based noise filters.

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See more information about the Toraja People in the Tana Toraja photo album.