A cow, a dog, and three people share the ordeal of preparing a field of barley. Most of the farms I saw in the Lijiang region appeared to be growing barley as a spring crop. Using a focal length of 350mm, I was able to reach out across the large field and bring my subject into the frame. The eye is drawn into the image by the furrows that begin at a wide dimension and gradually diminish in thickness as they slip into the distance. The lean of the final body, the foot in the air, add energy to the scene.