Title: Kiss Me Quick!Location: Madre de Dios, Peru Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey Would you like to purchase this photo or license it? Email me. Subscribe to Photo Of The Day: Enter Your E-Mail Address Subscribe in a reader Share
Title: Hummingbird, Just A Hummingbird Location: Inca Trail, Peru Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey Are you interested in purchasing, licensing or using this photo? Contact me! Share
Title: Wayna Picchu Location: Machu Picchu, Peru Description: Wayna Picchu, meaning ‘youg peak’ in the native Quechua language, is the tall mountain behind the city of Machu Picchu. Most don’t know there are houses and a tempt atop the mountain, which includes an extremely steep set up stairs. If you’re fit and up for some [...]
Title: Wandering The Ruins Location: Machu Picchu, Peru Description: A loan tourist wanders the ruins of Machu Picchu on a cool, overcast afternoon. After hiking the Inca Trail from kilometer post 82 to the wonderous ancient city perched far above the Urubamba River, the views and majesty of the site was a pleasure to behold. [...]
Title: Boating On Lago Sandoval Location: Rio Madre de Dios, Peru Settings ISO 50 Focal Length 28mm Shutter Speed 1/125 Aperture f/8 Exp Comp -1/3 Camera Canon EOS 5D Lens Canon 28-300mm L The sky in this image was originally just about blown out so I wanted to bring back the blue I saw that [...]
Title: Not Quite Hidden Macaw Location: Rio Madre De Dios, Peru Settings ISO 400 Focal Length 300mm Shutter Speed 1/320 Aperture f/6.3 Exp Comp -1/3 Camera Canon EOS 5D Lens Canon 28-300mm L This image first caught my attention because of what was not in it. I had been taking pictures of a pair [...]
Title: The Ruins At Sayaqmarka Location: Inca Trail, Peru Settings ISO 100 Focal Length 180mm Shutter Speed 1/160 Aperture f/6.3 Exp Comp -1/3 Camera Canon EOS 5D Lens Canon 28-300mm L Don’t ask me why, but I shot this image in JPG instead of RAW. It could have used a bit more latitude for my [...]
I push through the crowd of Japanese tourists with their cameras all pointed at the one of them brave enough to stand next to the man dressed up as an Inca King for a quick photo op in front of original Inca wall stones. Then wave my “no gracias”s and keep hustling past the attractive, [...]
Welcome to Day 17 on Peter’s Peru Adventure! Day 16 part 2 can be found here and all previous entries can be found here. To get updates sent to you via email, subscribe here. What’s that? Singing? It’s 2:45 in the morning for heaven’s sake! The group in the next campsite over is up way [...]
I’m no travel expert. Let’s just get that out of the way. While I have been a few places and earnestly love traveling, I never pretend to know it all. Well, maybe after a few drinks I’ll pretend to know it all, but alas, that’s not the truth. The truth is I enjoy traveling and [...]
