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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 170mm — ¹/3200 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
All In One Step
this machine goes as far as bag the rice
(a smaller version of the machine seen in this post)

A few more shots from last week's rice-harvest mountain scooter ride. I returned to the area yesterday to give some prints to the nice farmer lady, but the shots in this post are from the original trip last week.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135mm — ¹/800 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Gardens, Rice Fields, and Village

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 150mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Garden of Huge Lotus Leaves
some of these were two feet across

The seed heads were all pointing toward the sun, directly away from the camera, except one small one. It's just as well, as they give me the creeps...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 190mm — ¹/640 sec, f/3.2, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Slightly Creepy Pod

Back to the more traditional gardens and rice, the rows of dried rice were always picturesque...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 180mm — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/800 sec, f/5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Field of Plenty

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/3200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Safeguarding

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm, cropped — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Another Scarecrow
cropped from a larger photo

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/4000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lunch Break

The small combine, a Yanmar Ee213, runs about US$22,000 new.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70mm — ¹/1000 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Laid Neatly

I'm not sure why this rice isn't bundled to dry like many fields we've seen, but it could be that it was processed with the combine above, which takes the grains off the stalks, and so the stalks are just left until cleaned up later. I don't know.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 116mm — ¹/2500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

In the background was another farmer working the field next to his house...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 120mm — ¹/2000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 140mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Workin' It In Style
With a Yanmar GC215

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