These Burmese fishermen have mastered an unusual technique when it comes to paddling their boats.
Carefully balancing on one leg, wrapping their second leg around the oar to guide the vessel through the freshwater lake.
The skilled technique means the fishermen can stand and look out for reeds in the water and keep both hands free to handle the cumbersome nets.
Photographer David Lazar visited Inle Lake in the Taunggyi District of Shan State, Myanmar, also known as Burma, where the distinctive fishermen are a regular fixture.
The men in this region begin fishing when they are 13 years old and carry on until around 75 years old.
Every day the fishermen will catch a small selection of carp using conical shaped nets which they submerge in the 10ft-deep lake.
The fishermen then spear through the small hole in the top of the net.
Inle Lake is the second-largest in Burma and the fishermen have become a real draw for visiting tourists. The people of the lake, known as Intha, live in four towns and a series of tiny villages scattered along the shore.
2015 / thedailystar.net