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If these walls could talk – Machu Picchu photo essay
Before I got to Machu Picchu, Peru, I knew I wanted to keep people out of most of my photos. Including people in travel photos can deliver a sense of scale, time, place, or emotion. But, at a world wonder like Machu Picchu, almost all the people that are around are tourists, clumped in herds; guards, whistles at the ready to warn a tourist off a fragile wall; or us, mud-spattered and feeling less than photogenic.
With the rain, composing my travel photos to be tourist-free was almost too easy. It was keeping the lens dry that was hard.
(Todd, who doesn’t take many pictures beyond source material for his travel art, did catch one of me that I like. You’ll have to make it to the end of this photo essay for that one.)
Two through the window at Machu Picchu
Three windows at Machu Picchu
Scraping lichen at Machu Picchu
Layers of walls and grass, Machu Picchu
Peaked walls and mountain peak at Machu Picchu
Angled walls of Machu Picchu
Watching fog come and go at Machu Picchu
