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Taken in Irbid after the rain has stopped falling. I will get another shot from the same place once the fields turn golden yellow.
I've been having to reduce the saturation on some of the tulip photos lately; if you can believe that.
2009 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Mt. Vernon, Washington.
Graflex Speed Graphic
Optar f/4.7 135mm lens
Focalplane shutter 1/50 sec @ f8
Foma R5 X-ray film
tray development
Rodinal 1:100 7min @ 20ºC
Qingtian County is located in the middle south of Zhejiang Province and the lower reaches of Ou River, which covers a total area of 2,493 km2. The GIAHS designated village—Longxian village is a typical south village in the southeast of Fangshan Town, one of towns in Qingtian County, covering an area of 4.6 km2.
Ecological symbiosis exists in the traditional rice-fish agricultural system: fish provides fertilizer to rice, regulates micro-climatic conditions, softens the soil, disturbs the water, and eats larvae and weeds in the flooded fields; rice provides shade and food for fish.
Historically, fish has been cultivated in wet rice fields, either concurrently or rotationally with rice.
The canon for fish culture written by Fan Li (about 400 BC) states:
"... dig six mu of land into a pond … put 2000 fry into the pond …sell the rest in the market.”
In a good year with ample rainfall and moderate weather, 2000 carp fry could produce numerous eggs.
Some wise farmers may have placed excess fry in their rice fields. The fish in the rice fields may have grown better than those in the ponds, and the practice of raising fish in rice fields was born. There are no records of when the practice started, but this seems to be a logical explanation of how rice-fish farming began in China.
An early written record of rice-fish culture may be found in "Recipes for Four Seasons" which was written by Cao Cao in the Sanguo Era (200-265 AD): “a small fish with yellow scales and a red tail, grown in the rice fields of Pi County northeast of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, can be used for making sauce.”
Photo credit must be given: © FAO/Luohui Liang
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my beautiful baby. had to do another shot with this, can't get over the 99p price tag. its gorgeous. i uploaded this a day late! cos i was at a festival all yesterday. though im moving my upload date to the 25th. im keeping to my 365 and i wont let anyone tell me otherwise!!
101/365.
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These are fields of sunflowers in the Sacramento area in Northern California. They are at full bloom. Unfortunately, we are having a few wild fire in the area, so the sky is filled with smoke.
Al Sabo, Texas Corners, Michigan.
These are the original colors of the infrared image. Contrast enhanced.
Tech: five images (DNGs developed in ACR into 16-bit tifs) taken with a tripod mounted Canon A590 running CHDK and Hoya R72 filter mounted, stacked in PhotoAcute Studio for noise reduction. Levels adjustment layer, PercepTool and sharpened.
ISO 80, f3.7, 1/2 sec, 6.6 mm. White balance made from some pretty scraggly, almost green grass.
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This is one of my favorite shots from this years tulip festival in Agassiz. Every year they open up the gates early one morning for photographers to come in and take photos before the crowds arrive. I wasn't lucky enough to get a good sunrise because of the clouds but it was amazing to have the whole field to myself to just walk around and take photos.
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