Tilt-Shift Photograph of Mountain Rice Terraces and a Stilt-House Village at Dawn

Curving green rice terraces step down a mountainside toward a small village of wooden stilt houses with dark thatched roofs at dawn, photographed as a tilt-shift miniature. Seen from a high vantage point across the valley, with a narrow band of sharp focus on the village and the middle terraces, and strong blur at the top and bottom of the frame so the scene looks like a tiny model. Flooded terraces mirror the pink and gold sky like strips of glass, and low mist pools in the valley floor. A smal...