Paddy Field Reflections — Yunnan Aerial
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An aerial view of Yunnan’s Yuanyang terraced rice paddies filled with spring water — thousands of flooded terraces creating a monumental mirror mosaic on mountain slopes.
Description
The Yuanyang rice terraces of Yunnan Province, China, are among the world’s most spectacular and largest traditional agricultural landscapes — over 10,000 terraces carved from mountain slopes reaching 2,000m elevation by the Hani people over the past 1,300 years. In spring, before rice planting, the terraces are flooded — creating a mosaic of thousands of small water mirrors on the mountain face that reflect the sky and clouds with extraordinary visual effect. This aerial photograph, made from a light aircraft at 500m above the surrounding terrain, captures the most densely terraced section of the landscape in its flooded state — the silver water terraces creating a staircase of mirrors that descends the mountain in concentric steps.
