The Himalaya
Sigma 100-400 OS C @400mm, f6.3, ISO 125; D750 (3250 m) The men are splitting the pieces from the rock or large boulders. This seldom is close to the site (a new house) and the stones are often carried across large distances by men and women. Seeing a man with one on his shoulder it’s not too far in this instance (and about 300 m from this spot).
Milvus 35/1.4 @f2, (2100 m); Nikon D600 The pan is used for roasting variety of the grain people grow here including soya beans (buckweat in the picture).
Sigma 100-400 OS C @180mm, f5.6, ISO 250 (3350 m) Family harvesting the barley; splitting the ear using two straight sticks to pick them up (they often pull whole clumps of the barley from the soil). The older man cuts whatever is left in the soil with the sickle.
