A Few More Rows

une belle série sur les rizières, belle posture que celle de cette femme et son reflet :-))

really interesting and I'd love to see more rice planter photos!

dur labeur que celui de planteur de riz !!!
vive les machines !!: )

Nice catch, she is lucky that the machine did most of the work.

I like the way you've shown the "big picture" here, it gives a wonderful context to the woman working! I can only imagine how much work this must have been in the days before the machines did some of the work!

Oh, so beautiful! I love the bent figure and the little rows of rice growing.

Are the rice fields aleways under water

A beautiful pastoral scene GJC! Well seen and captured! ;-)

It's the same here, GJC. I used to do this as a kid - plant padi, and harvest them. Our plough machines was pulled by buffaloes, and it was a lot of fun even when it was serious work for the adults! Then machines came in, faster though they be - but the spirit of working together, family and neighbours, no longer exists.
Beautiful picture, so well-captured and composed.

青空がとてもきれいです。いい風景！

It still must be hard on the back. Nice light and reflections.

Nice shot! I like the sky in this one.

Sometimes when we make things "easier" I think we are actually making them harder in other ways....Sometimes I feel like I want to go back to a more simple time- when we ate more fresh foods, stayed home more, and knew our neighbors....And as far as "the big picture" I never thought I was good at it either, but somehow with practice (and lots of shots for the trash can) the bigger picture has become a favorite way of shooting for me! :)

A real piece of rural Japan....we should be glad to still be able to get such glimpses! I like the details here, the fence behind the woman, the roof behind it, the houses in the distance and the beautiful, beautiful green!