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Subject: [Leica] The rice padi terraces of Tegallantang, Bali
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:18:11 +0530
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Howard,
The language is surprising - "padi" means ladder in Tamil, which is
exactly what you see - the South Indian cultural and linguistic
influence on Bali!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> Bali internet band width is up again tonight and I have managed to upload a
> new pano.
> It is four vertical panels wide taken with the 28 Elmarit R on my Nikon 
> D700
> using the Novoflex pan head and assembled with CS4.
> The subject is the rice padi terraces of tegallantang - where the rice
> farmers of Bali have been shaping the hillsides for more than a thousand
> years.
> I am drawn back to this subject in different light every time I visit Bali
> and the combination of the 28 Elmarit on the D700 is one of my favourites
> for making this scene.
> I never tire of it and it is never quite the same. Today our driver Gusti
> took me to a slightly different vantage point in the late afternoon and I
> was inspired to shoot this:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/400Telyt/4panoTegallantang28Elw.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ygy86vf
>
> C & C always welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Howard
>
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