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I once helped a friend's mother take in the rice and sesame harvest by hand. We cut the rice stalks with scythes and laid the plants on the field for collection later. So many spiders in a dry rice paddy. My friend's mother had already cut the sesame and dried it. My friend and I laid the plants on tarps and used flails to get the seeds out. It was exhausting work. Luckily, my friend's mother was an excellent cook and we were fed massive meals of rice, soup, and side dishes. A great experience.
Photography Notes: Nikon F6 and Kentmere Pan 400 film. I did quite a bit of dodging and burning to get the look I wanted from the scan. A possible portfolio photo?
I like it. They look like outer-world entities, with rain covers.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that much of the rice work is still done by hand these days. Reminds me of photographs of local people here in Ireland working with flax to make linen - that was a lengthy, hard and smelly process. The finished product was like nothing else, though.
Nice that you got rewarded for a hard day in the fields.
Most farmers these days hire tractors or cultivators to do the heavy work. My friend's mother had just a few tiny fields that tractors probably couldn't get into.
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