What on Earth? – Getty Images FOTO

One of the rice paddy pictures has a sister image on WikiCommons. It's by the same photographer and potentially shot in the same session, as the region in the getty image is evident in the lower middle section of the wikicommons image. To my taste, the WikiCommons image is the more amazing looking one.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace_field_yunnan...

https://foto.gettyimages.com/photos/rice-paddy-fields-in-sou...

In the vein of this article, if you want more amazing pictures, you can do worse than looking though WikiCommons' Picture of the Year, Picture of the Day or Featured Pictures.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Ye...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_da...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures