Opinion wanted Sunset over the rice fields

[Andy Smith]

Location

Asia

Camera type

Mirrorless camera

Camera sensor

Full-frame

An image taken the other evening whilst out and about in the rice fields behind my home.
Canon R5, EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II
f/3.5, 1/40th, ISO 100

 

[Jack]

I like the dramatic composition in this photo, most likely you had a nice sunset there.

By the way, I bet the rice must be cheap there?

 

[Morexp57]

An image taken the other evening whilst out and about in the rice fields behind my home.
Canon R5, EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II
f/3.5, 1/40th, ISO 100

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Beautiful complementary colours. I feel the calm of the evening coming.

 

[NataliaFlejszarPhoto]

An image taken the other evening whilst out and about in the rice fields behind my home.
Canon R5, EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II
f/3.5, 1/40th, ISO 1so

So beautiful landscape and well captured 🤩 and I love rice 😋😁

 

[Andy Smith]

By the way, I bet the rice must be cheap there?

It is cheap Jack yes, but a lot of work goes into producing it and to be honest it's not really worth farming at the moment as there is not enough return on the effort.

 

[Jack]

It is cheap Jack yes, but a lot of work goes into producing it and to be honest it's not really worth farming at the moment as there is not enough return on the effort.

I think that's pretty much everywhere now. Farmers are struggling due of climate change.

 

[Andy Smith]

I think that's pretty much everywhere now. Farmers are struggling due of climate change.

Nothing to do with climate change Jack, the Government has stopped subsidizing rice so the farmers now get only 20 pence for a kilo instead of around 45 pence from a couple of years back. A lot of farmers are giving up on farming rice now and turning their land into fish farms.

 

[Jack]

Nothing to do with climate change Jack, the Government has stopped subsidizing rice so the farmers now get only 20 pence for a kilo instead of around 45 pence from a couple of years back. A lot of farmers are giving up on farming rice now and turning their land into fish farms.

Rice isn’t expensive to be honest comparing to fish. Here in shops for a slice of salmon you have to pay around £5, when for rice you can get 1Kg for around £2 if I’m not wrong.

 

[Andy Smith]

Rice isn’t expensive to be honest comparing to fish. Here in shops for a slice of salmon you have to pay around £5, when for rice you can get 1Kg for around £2 if I’m not wrong.

they won't be farming Salmon that's for sure, haha just cheap river fish that everyone here in Thailand eats. People will not get too much more per KG than rice, but it is less work and they can harvest the fish 3x per year if they do it right, rather than 2x per year for rice.
However, I see so many fish farms staring out now that I think this will only drive the price of fish down as supply will be readily available and it is not easy to store fresh fish for any length of time here due to the heat, without spending more capital on freezers, bags, vacuum packing equipment etc.

 

[Jack]

they won't be farming Salmon that's for sure, haha just cheap river fish that everyone here in Thailand eats. People will not get too much more per KG than rice, but it is less work and they can harvest the fish 3x per year if they do it right, rather than 2x per year for rice.
However, I see so many fish farms staring out now that I think this will only drive the price of fish down as supply will be readily available and it is not easy to store fresh fish for any length of time here due to the heat, without spending more capital on freezers, bags, vacuum packing equipment etc.

Then we can eat more fish which is healthy . Obviously that’s business, you have to invest to make money. And obviously they can’t sell fish which has on the shelves or fridges there for very long .

 

[lightmuncher]

Love the pastel colours