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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.
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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The fields of Canola are now in full flower in the farming areas surrounding Perth.
Taken at a good mates farm just outside Toodjay.
The brand new (awesome) stadium for my Minnesota Twins!! Went to the game Friday night with my dad and two sisters for an early Father's Day outing. The Twins played brilliantly and beat the Padres, 6-5. Fun night.
Canon T2i/550d
Old Vivitar manual lens
HDR tone-mapping in Photomatix
HDR created from a single RAW
Finishing in Adobe Lightroom
...wildflower fields, actually....! ;-)
this is how part of the huge field seen before in bokeh status looks in focus...hues of yellow, pink orange, indigo, red and a few blues all under a dramatic Texas sky.
in Guadalupe County, Church Road @ Single Oak Road between New Berlin and Seguin, Texas...April 10, 2010
have a good weekend and take care!
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.
Miscanthus sinensis flourish in the field of Osato, Mikasa, Hokkaido.
Mamiya Universal Press Sekor 75mm F5.6, positive self developed.
Blueberry bushes turned red in the fall sunlight. Near Wolfville in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.
Andrew sitting at the foot of the Glacier Fields, which we hiked many an hour uphill to get to. In the end, it was 1000 times worth it. The hugeness of the place is absolutely un-caputurable on film. Hopefully having Andrew in the frame gives you a sense of scale.