Cusco’s Plaza de Armas at night – all photos by the author – www.dojoklo.com Every visitor to Cusco is likely to tour the Cathedral and a couple major museums, relax in the Plaza de Armas, and marvel at the exotic offerings in the San Pedro food market. However there are additional essential sites and experiences [...]
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Tags: culture, Cusco, Cuzco, eat, eating, museum, must see, Peru, places to visit, restaurants, shopping, sights, sites, things to do, top ten, tour, Travel, visit
My lists of Peru and Cusco resources later in the post, click here: Peru – Cusco Resources There are a couple Peruvian / Andean related books that have recently been published and which I both just finished reading: the wonderfully woven travel stories, characters, and histories of Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams, [...]
Tags: andes, andrew gibson, Craft and Vision, Cusco, e book, hiram bingham, mark adams, Peru, photo, Photography, turn right at machu picchu
Every once in a while I come across a mention or a discussion of taping over your camera’s logo to cover and hide where it says Canon or Nikon above the lens. A lot of the people who do it say that it is for security reasons, so that a potential thief doesn’t see that [...]
This post is the third in an occasional series in which I describe the making of a photograph, from both a technical and artistic standpoint. I’ll go through the camera settings and why they were chosen, as well as the thought processes going through my head regarding composition and the creation of the image. These [...]
Tags: aperture, depth of field, Photography, process
One of my favorite Friday reads is the 10Q Interviews with Humanitarian Photographers on Heber Vega’s blog. As suggested by the title, he interviews a different humanitarian, travel, or culture photographer each week, asking them a similar series of questions and sharing several of their photos. I was fortunate to be interviewed by him a [...]
I just stumbled across this on Amazon – here’s my photo on the Viva Travel Guide – Machu Picchu and Cusco guide book. Inca King at Inti Raymi – Sacsayhuaman, Cusco, Peru 2007 I would like to mention, for those researching digital SLR cameras, that this photo was taken with an Olympus SP-320, 7 megapixel [...]
Tags: Cusco, guidebook, Machu Picchu, Viva
Tags: Cambridge, Harvard Square, MA, Mass, Massachusetts, photo, Photography
The Redcoats skirmish with the Colonial militia on Boston Common, as part of Boston Harborfest 2010
Tags: 2010, 4th of July, Boston, colonial, Colonial militia, Fourth of July, Harborfest, Independence Day, MA, Patriots, Redcoats, Redcoats on the Common, reenactment, Revolutionary War
Two years ago, in 2008, I ventured to the annual rebuilding of the last remaining traditional Inca rope bridge, the Keshwa Chaca, which spans the Apurimac River near Huinchiri, Peru. My mission was to photograph the locals as they spun q’olla grass into rope, constructed the bridge, and celebrated the completion with a festival of [...]
Tags: Apurimac, Cusco, Cuzco, Huinchiri, Inca bridge, Keshwa Chaca, Mitch Teplitsky, Quechua, rebuilding, river, rope bridge, Soy Andina, straw bridge
Summer has officially arrived in Brooklyn! Images from the 2010 Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Brooklyn, NY. More photos here.
Tags: 2010, boardwalk, Brooklyn, Coney Island, Day, images, Mermaid, Mermaid Parade, New York, New York City, NYC, Parade, photos, pictures, sirena, sirenas, summer
This weekend – June 10-13, 2010 – is the annual reconstruction of the Keshwa Chaca, the last remaining traditional Inca rope bridge (actually made of straw or grass), which spans the Apurimac River near Huinchiri, Peru. If you are in the Cusco area, I highly encourage you to visit the bridge building and the incredible [...]
Tags: bridge, Cusco, Cuzco, grass, Huinchiri, Inca bridge, Keshwa Chaca, Peru, rope bridge, South America, straw
A couple days after Tropical Storm Agatha swept across Guatemala on Saturday, a few images of the destruction have started to appear. Mostly the news is focusing on dramatic photos of the giant sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala City, and on the eruption of the volcano Pacaya that preceded the storm. But the destruction is [...]
Tags: Agatha, Antigua, Duenas, Guatemala, Guatemala City, hurricane, tropical storm
Here is a reposting of my Mother’s Day post from a couple years ago from Peru: Marilyn at Aldea Yanapay with tarjeta de la Dia de las Madres that reads: “Happy Mother´s Day Mommy, you are the prettiest of all the parents, a flower that blooms in my garden. For this I love you Mom.”
Tags: Aldea Yanapay, Dia de la Madre, feliz, happy, Mother's Day
When I began my work in travel, culture, and humanitarian photography I spent a great deal of time scouring websites, reading forums, checking reviews, making lists, and agonizing before I finally settled on which lenses were best for my needs and my work. So hopefully all my effort can help you save some time and [...]
Tags: all purpose, best, camera, Canon, Canon L, culture, equipment, Gear, humanitarian, kit, kit lens, L, L lens, L series, lens, lense, lenses, NGO, photo, Photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, prime, prime lens, recommended, Travel, world
I just learned that I’ve accomplished one of my photography goals: to have my photo on the cover of a travel guide book! My photo of the Inca King at Inti Raymi was selected to be on the cover of the Viva Travel Guide Cusco and Machu Picchu guide book. As their website explains, “V!VA [...]
Tags: cover, Cusco, Cuzco, guide book, guidebook, Inca, Inti Raymi, king, photo, Photography, travel guide, travel photography, Viva
(For related posts, check out other entries in the Humanitarian Photography category.) As one grows up in the first world, they learn to see the developing world as exotic lands of vibrant color and fantastic ceremonies. I recall that for a grade school project I made a large cut-out of the African continent, and populated [...]
Tags: Guatemala, humanitarian, NGO, photo, Photography, Travel
(For related posts, check out other entries in the Humanitarian Photography category which includes post such as choosing your camera and lenses, as well as the follow up to this post, After the Self-Assignment.) How to Become a Humanitarian Photographer As with many other photography specialties, there is no set course to becoming a humanitarian [...]
Tags: become, becoming, equipment, Gear, humanitarian, NGO, non-profit, photo, photographer, Photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, self assignment, start, start out, Travel, volunteer
My recent trip to Guatemala to photograph for an NGO gave me an opportunity to field test a bunch of new gear under real working conditions – jumping on and off chicken buses, crammed into the seat of a van for hours with all of it on my lap, roaming around the streets of Antigua [...]
Tags: 550d, 5D, 60D, 7D, equipment, Gear, Guatemala, humanitarian, humanitarian photographer, Humanitarian Photography, NGO, photo, photo equipment, photo gear, Photography, R strap, T2i
I’ve been selected as one of the Ten Finalists in the Conde Nast $25,000 Dream Trip Contest (out of over 70,000 entries!) with my photo Boys Emerging from Chuch – Pisac. This photo was captured on my visit to Pisac where I ran into some fellow Yanapay volunteers, and then we all got on the [...]
Tags: Conde Nast, contest, digital SLR, dream trip, dSLR, for sale, photo, Photography, Pisac, Sony, Sony a350, Travel
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