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"Trekking Andes Mountains" Urubamba River Valley, Peru

New Rules for visiting Machu Picchu Peru

The porters and trekkers wind their way up the trail as we climb out of the Urabumaba River valley and begin our trek to the once Lost Incan enclave of Machu Picchu. We will be on the trail for the next three days to reach our destination. We will cross 15,000 foot passes here in the Andes on our journey.

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"Me and My Llama" Peru

New Rules for visiting Machu Picchu Peru

A Little Girl Hugs Her Baby Llama

The children of Peru are some of the most beautiful subjects for photography on the planet. Throw in a hug and a baby llama and how can't you miss.

Peru was one of the first times in my photographic career where I realized that I have a gift for photographing people. Up until I traveled to Peru I thought my photographic gift was in nature landscapes. I enjoyed getting out into the backcountry and being alone. The rocks didn't talk back and you never had figure out how to pose a tree. But I began to notice that in my commercial photography business the assignments that were coming my way were mostly people oriented jobs.

I really didn't want to be pigeonholed into shooting only one genre of images. I wanted to dabble in a little of this and little of that. I wanted to take my 4x5 camera out and shoot nature landscapes but also do commercial ski and sportswear images, Maybe a few B&W nudes every now and then.

I have since come to the conclusion that in commercial photography if you don't pick your pigeonhole someone will pick one for you.

Apparently the landscape nature images that populated my portfolio were not significantly different from many of the images other photographers that were vying for the same jobs were showing. My people images, however were a notch above the rest and I got more assignments involving photographing regular people and models in situations designed to look like they were just a momentary slice of real life even though some were highly manufactured and propped photo shoots.

This photo however, is just that a momentary slice of life in Peru. No props, no direction, just a little girl and her baby llama.

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"Trekking to Machu Picchu" Peru

Machu Picchu, Peru

New Rules for visiting Machu Picchu Peru

The Hidden City of the Inca high in the Andes Mountains is one of the great travel destinations on the planet. After rafting for 3 days on the Urubamba River we began hiking to Machu Picchu. In 4 days of trekking we arrived to see this mysterious mountain enclave that the Inca managed to keep hidden from the Spanish. Rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, it is one of the most mystical places on earth.

Machu Picchu is on just about everyone's travel bucket list. I had the good fortune to see it early in my travel career while working on a film for Sobeck/Mountain Travel that eventually became an episode in the Discovery Channel series, Sir Edmund Hillary's World of Adventure.

My first glimpse of the iconic terraces that sit 7,970 feet (2,430 meters) above sea level on the eastern slope of the Andes came from high above in the late afternoon, after a day of trekking. We arrived late enough that most of the tourists had departed on the last buses back to Aguas Calientes on the valley floor. Only a few a people that were fortunate enough to have rooms at the hotel just outside Machu Picchu's grounds were still wandering among the stone walls. Most of the hotel guests had already headed for the bar and were sipping cocktails and telling traveler's tales.

I'll always treasure those haunting moments as we made our way among the stone houses that housed perhaps as few as 750 people. Now each day brings 2000+ tourists to these verdant terraces and more would come if restrictions weren't in place. By the time the we entered the Machu Picchu it was eerily --- wonderfully empty.

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