Gavin Marshall

Taking a break in the young rice paddy.

Bundling the young rice plants to go on the planting trays.

Back breaking work. All the planting is done by hand as are most of the other tasks.

They willingly shared their time and friendship with a stranger taking photos.

I was invited to bananas and coffee for morning tea.

This wooden rake typifies the hand tools used to maintain the paddy fields

Buffalo working in the rice paddies on the way from Bali to East Java

Buffalo are used to drag the levelling blade through the paddy to prepare it for planting.

Hard working buffalo seem at home in the heat and mud.

Our perfect driver Franz, with some long grained brown rice some month out from harvest.

The famous spider rice field just out of Ruteng Flores, Indonesia

Some paddies have been harvested and others are ready for planting. Often owned by communities, here some of the residents doing maintenance with their houses in the background