Photographer's Note
When I was in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, I was lucky to find farmers in the process of
threshing (separating the grains from the stem) their harvested rice crop.
Inorder to undertand this threshing activity better, here's a brief summary:
The 2 boys at extreme left will hand over the harvested crops to the man in red. 'Red man' is responsible for placing the crops into the thresher. The thresher will then separate the grains from the stems.
The stems can be seen being shot out from the thresher into the air, going into an area at the right, where more farmers will pile them up to be burned later.
The grains, on the other hand, will come out from a separate outlet (which unfortunately is blocked by the man in blue). The grains will be placed in sacks, and when the sack is full, 'blue man' will pass the sack to another farmer, who can be seen sewing up the sack.
It's a team effort where everybody - boys, men and women- participate. The harder jobs are handled by the men and boys at the left, while the women handle the easier job (at the right).
I think that's all I have to say for this pic. :)
supereira, jhm, glitch, rabani, emercamaya, aznegrao, elihesamian marcou esta nota como útil
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jhm
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(211734) 2004-11-24 8:35
This does think me of in former days, more than 50 years, all people together for threshing the rijst, here at us the wheat, I find this a beautiful compostion, maybe Alford, I it small white part of cropped above.
I like this!
glitch
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(763) 2004-11-24 12:39
Nice photo Alford. Lovely informative note to go with it also. I really like this scene, with the workers in the foreground, against the line of well detailed different trees. The backdrop of 'blue' mountains sets this photo off nicely. Is that an animal at the base of the palm tree on the right?
A well captured view of daily life.
Compliments,
Steve
rabani
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(9645) 2004-11-24 20:15
...stay together. Coming from a kampong, I could relate and apprciate this. You have it all here Alford. Checkered padi field during harvesting, a touch of hilly ranges and a line of coconut trees. And the two groups of people, you could its orderly and collectivity.
waskahegan
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(0) 2004-11-24 20:22
magandang tanawin! the scene is interesting as is the work done in the fields (bigas?) The bluish hills give us a clue to the high humidity. salamat
emercamaya
(365) 2004-11-25 5:30
Very well composed. It's a cast of thousands (i'm exaggerating of course) and yet they all fit comfortably with a lot of useful space to spare. And no details are lost even with the wide angle, maybe because of the bright colors worn. It looks as though the scene was well rehearsed, and the background of the mountains, coconut palms and green rice paddies (i agree with rabani!) form a stage set backdrop as if in a live play. You are well positioned as well to see the entire action, and at the same time all the elements that complement the foreground are perfectly positioned (I mentioned the palms already, right?). The only thing I would like to see more is the shooting straw whizzing out of the thresher past the field backdrop. That could have bridged the gap between the two clusters of people.
supereira
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(9576) 2004-11-25 5:40
I like the composition and the framing.Great POV and DOF.Very good colors and good contrast betwen them.Great textures,light and sharpness.Well done!
aznegrao
(10316) 2004-11-26 8:33
Impressionante a qualidae dessa imagem Alford. O tipico momento da vida diaria muito bem documentado junto com as cores e o fundo estão marvilhosos. Parabens.
elihesamian
(26149) 2004-11-30 4:42
And this one is great,too,Alford,I like it,the people works here with a high trying for result of harvesting and I know they do it with hope and smiling although i's a hard work.
very well captured and nicely composed,too,thanks for posting it.
Yours
M
mscutar87 (5) 2006-05-24 15:41
What a great subject/picture; it reminds me of my younger days in Nueva Vizcaya! When we were little kids we used to go in the farm & help our parents, relatives & friends. It was our way of helping, socializing & at the same time having picnics.
Photo Information
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Copyright: Alford Ronduen (alford)
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(4063) - Genre: Pessoas
- Medium: Cor
- Date Taken: 2004-11-14
- Categories: Vida Diária
- Camera: Canon Digital Ixus 500
- Exposição: f/4.9, 1/159 segundos
- Versão da Foto: Versão Original
- Tema(s): Rice Fields and the People "I", the farm life [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2004-11-24 4:31
Discussions
- To glitch: re: animal at the field (1)
by alford, last updated 2004-11-24 06:23 - To waskahegan: re:bigas (1)
by alford, last updated 2004-11-24 09:12
