Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Preparing a Paddy for Rice Seedlings

by Jeffrey Friedl Sun, May 27th, 2007 8:35pm JST (16 years, 11 months ago)

On the drive in the mountains yesterday, after the lovely field of purple flowers, we came across this farmer preparing one rice paddy in between two that were already planted.

Preparing the Paddy -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 55mm — ¹/60 sec, f/4.5, ISO 500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Preparing the Paddy

Rice Waiting to be Planted -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 26mm — ¹/90 sec, f/4.5, ISO 500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rice Waiting to be Planted

For actually planting the rice, the tractor takes an attachment that holds tray after tray of rice seedlings, and automatically puts them into rows as he drives along. The clump in the foreground above are some such trays, likely left over when the foreground paddy was planted. I suspect they'll use them in the paddy being prepared in the photo.

Just-Planted Rice -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 55mm — ¹/60 sec, f/4.5, ISO 500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Just-Planted Rice

Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 55mm — ¹/90 sec, f/4.5, ISO 500 — map & image data — nearby photos

May	26th,	2007	Purple Irises in the Mountains
June	21st,	2007	Lawrence Solum, and Random Pics from Arashiyama
September	12th,	2007	The Rice Harvest
September	29th,	2011	Stages of the Rice Harvest
December	28th,	2013	Photos of Farming in Japan for Captain Bill
April	19th,	2015	Highly-Visible Cycle Ride Though the Mountains of Northern Kyoto

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