Rice and Sky

A harvested rice paddy, reflecting a cloudy sky.  

Colored Terraces

Terraced hillside in Japan.  Late 1960s.

Planting Rice

Planting rice by hand.  Late 60s.

Rice planted in a Valley

Rice paddies on level ground, that's unusual.  Japan, of course, late '60s.

Flooded Rice Terraces (photo)

Rice Terraces under cultivation.  

Planting Rice

Planting Rice.  The overexposure is in the negative, but RTH must have liked it this way, as I've seen an enlargement on display.  Japan, sometime in the late '60s.

Terraced Slope

Rice paddies on a terraced slope.

drying rice stalks after harvest

After the rice harvest, the rice stalks are saved and dried for making tatami floors and other purposes.

Rice Terraces

Scanned from a negative.  RTH always liked pictures that show interesting textures.  I like the juxtaposition of the regularly planted rice with the crops on the nearby hillsides, separated by wild growths.

Rice Paddies in the woods

Rice paddies in a wooded area.  A scanned slide.  Notice the drying rice stalks in the lower left.

Rice Paddies awash

Planting Rice

Japanese farmers planting rice.  This is a scan of a slide.