A spare technical field-sketch of a copper machine-heron wading in flooded green terraces at dawn, drawn in thin ink contour with a light watercolor wash on warm paper-white. The tall wading machine stands in side elevation: two separated jointed strut-legs planted in mirror-still water with spreading rings, a folded pair of narrow sensor wings, and a long neck ending in a sensor crest swept low over the water like a heron's hunting stoop. Verdigris panels, brass rivet seams and faint circuit traces show through the wash. Twin ribbon antennae trail behind its crown.
Terraced bunds step away in pale gold haze, each water level holding a broken reflection of the heron, and a low sun throws one long shadow from its legs across the paddy. A few egret footprints dot a mud ridge. Quiet, patient, precise; no words, labels or legend numbers anywhere in the image.
