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I never did an and now my kid is making me do one.

Where can I find stuff on (learner) ?

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Vincent van Gogh
Two Peasants Digging After Millet
1889

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Vincent Van Gogh
Two Peasant Women Digging in Field with Snow
1890

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As populations decline and residents age in rural communities across the Chugoku region, livelihoods and traditions, including rice production, are either changing or disappearing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/02/japan/japan-aging-rural-rice-farming/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Some local governments are turning to resident-led nonprofit organizations known as "workers' cooperatives" to provide essential services, amid the withdrawal of supermarkets and other businesses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/28/japan/society/worker-cooperatives-rural-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

@discdogbob@mastodon.social avatar discdogbob , to random

New fine-art photograph: Standing Ground

An old tractor resting in shadow — weathered paint, steel, and memory. Printed on satin metal for rich blacks and crisp texture. A natural fit for homes, breweries, and hospitality spaces.

Available now →www.robertnphotographer.com

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Vincent van Gogh
Sketches of Peasant Plowing with Horses
1890

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Japan Railways Group companies are set to continue talks with local communities in 2026 on the fate of loss-making rural lines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/03/japan/jr-unprofitable-lines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Japan’s efforts to to halt rural depopulation and revive its countryside have failed because jobs alone are insufficient, requiring a broader focus on quality of life, productivity and realistic population goals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/12/26/japans-regional-revitalization-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Okinawa Prefecture’s image of “islands blessed with children” might not be entirely accurate when it comes to its remote islands and isolated communities, which struggle with acute depopulation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/japan/society/okinawa-remote-islands-depopulation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Following her first encounter with “Christmas cake” in 1975, an American writer began to establish her own holiday traditions and menus by blending cultures and communities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/12/22/voices/christmas-new-years-meals-memories/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Over about 5 minutes I watched easily 100 ducks leave our pond, and there were still more quacking around.

Flying ducks silhouetted against a vivid sunrise. More ducks can be heard in the background.

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Paul Gauguin
Swineherd Brittany
1888

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Despite familiar threats of synthetic alternatives and a declining workforce, Shiga Prefecture's persimmon dyers believe the traditional craft is still worth the effort. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/11/01/style-design/persimmon-dyeing-textiles-shiga-crafts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

@gozella@pixelfed.judesign.vision avatar gozella , to random

A visit to the Museumsdorf Niedersulz, Austria – Part IV

Between historic rooms, long corridors and quiet garden benches, you can feel the calm rhythm of rural life from more than a century ago. The warm sunlight, wooden textures, and silence of these places remind us how slow and simple life once was.

📷 Canon AE-1

A narrow hallway with white plastered walls, stone floor, and wooden ceiling. At the end of the corridor, soft daylight enters through a doorway, illuminating a single wooden bench placed along the wall. The image evokes quietness and timelessness.
A cozy indoor seating area in a traditional Austrian house. Sunlight streams through tall wooden windows, lighting up wooden tables and chairs arranged neatly in rows. Small vases with dried flowers and wooden boxes with postcards decorate the tables, creating a warm and nostalgic mood.

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A visit to the Museumsdorf Niedersulz, Austria – Part III

The village features many typical Weinviertel front gardens, famous for their abundance of blossoms and colors. Between old wooden fences and whitewashed houses, these flower gardens show the region’s love for detail and tradition.

📷 Canon AE-1

Red flowers in the foreground, sharply focused, while yellow and orange dahlias blur behind them. A white village house stands in the background, basking in late-summer light, evoking a peaceful countryside mood.
A colorful front garden filled with bright yellow and orange dahlias and pink roses in bloom. Behind the flowers stands an old white house with a small window. Sunlight hits the blossoms from the side, while the background of trees and a wooden fence fades softly into blur.

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A Visit to the Open-Air Museum Niedersulz, Austria – Part II

Walking through Niedersulz feels like traveling back in time. The museum brings together historical buildings from across the Weinviertel — from humble cottagers’ homes to large farmsteads, complete with animals you can pet, old workshops (including a mother-of-pearl turnery), a traditional schoolhouse, and wine press houses. Each corner tells a story of everyday life and craftsmanship in rural Austria.

Once again, I learned a lot — not only about history but also about working with my Canon AE-1. Even in these photos, there are still many small details I could improve, but that’s part of the process — and part of the joy of learning analog photography.

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A close-up view of the white plastered facade of a traditional house, typical of the Niedersulz Open-Air Museum, under bright sunlight. Three deep, semi-circular archways or niches are visible side-by-side, leading into dark openings. The ground in front of the openings is light sand, which transitions into a green lawn. On the left, a tree with bright foliage shades a large part of the facade, creating a pattern of light and shadow. The dark roof covering is visible at the top edge of the image. A small bush grows to the right of the niches.
A sunny-day photograph showing a section of the Niedersulz Open-Air Museum village. The foreground is a green lawn that leads to a long, white plastered building with a dark tiled roof on the left. The house's facade is structured by several deep, semi-circular niches or archways with dark openings. On the right, a tall tree with dense foliage casts shadows over much of the scene. Mounted high on a pole on the tree trunk is a rustic, wooden birdhouse with a pointed roof. A small, white wooden fence and a miniature dog kennel are visible in the semi-shadow beneath the birdhouse. Another traditional building connects to the main structure in the background, to the right of the tree.
This image shows a tranquil corner of a traditional farmstead in the open-air museum Niedersulz. The whitewashed walls and tiled roof of the house line the left side, with arched openings leading into shaded walkways. In the foreground stands a wooden dovecote on a tall post, its small compartments once home to pigeons. Below it lies a small wooden doghouse and an old well. The sunlight streaming through the trees bathes the yard in a mix of light and shadow, creating a timeless, peaceful impression of rural architecture and farm life in 19th-century Austria.
A courtyard scene in the open-air museum Niedersulz. A white building with arched entrances and small windows stands under a tree with dense green leaves, some turning brown in the early autumn light. In the foreground, an old stone well with an iron handle rests near the center, surrounded by fallen leaves. The atmosphere feels calm and nostalgic, evoking the rhythm of rural life over a century ago — when such wells were essential to daily living, and courtyards like this formed the heart of every farmhouse in the Weinviertel.
The photograph shows the exterior of a historic rural house from the Weinviertel region, preserved in the open-air museum Niedersulz. The building has a long whitewashed façade with thick walls and a roof made of small overlapping clay tiles. Arched openings supported by sturdy columns form a shaded corridor along the front. Sunlight filters through surrounding trees, casting soft shadows on the grass and walls. This architecture, simple yet elegant, represents typical rural construction from the 19th century in Lower Austria, where functionality and craftsmanship went hand in hand.

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'HORSE PLAY'
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Sunlight catches the curve of a horse’s mane as another whinnies in the distance, somewhere in the quiet fields of the Netherlands.
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After a long career in preschool education, Australian Linda Joyce is now taking up sustainable tourism as a bilingual concierge in rural Tochigi Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/09/25/our-lives/linda-joyce-tochigi-tourism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon