|
In November of 1994, after an attempt to observe a total solar
eclipse from a remote site in northern Chile, Richard
Elston and I made an overland expedition through Bolivia.
Richard, at that time, was on the staff of CTIO in Chile. Upon arrival in Bolivia we
rented a red Toyota Land Cruiser equipped with a winch in
case we got really foolish (that's a winch, not a wench). |
The Land Cruiser on a typical road
|
|
A little known Inka
at a ruin
|
Initially
we used La Paz as a base. From there we traveled to view petroglyphs,
to a little known
Inka ruin on the east side of the Andes, and made a round trip on a precipitous
road that dropped over 3000 meters in altitude in only 50
km. Then we struck out west spending several days on the south-east
shore of Lake Titicaca and visited the ruins of Tiwanaku. |
Except
for our forays into the eastern most reaches of Bolivian Amazonia, we
rarely were below 3600 meters in elevation. Thus, we were always
treated to views of life on the altiplano and of the towering snow covered
mountains that surround this high alpine basin. These web pages
present some of the images from that trip arranged roughly by topic. The
guide below will tell you what is on the web now
A technical note on photography: Cameras: two Nikon
bodies (F4s
and N90), Nikkor lenses of focal lengths 24, 28/85, 80/200, and 300
with occasional use of 1.4x and 2.0x tele-extenders, and an SB-24 flash
unit. Filters:
polarizing filter (rarely), UV filters and 81A. Also, a
Singh graduated neutral density filter. A small Gitzo tripod with
Linhof ball head, Kirk quick-release
mounts. The film was mostly Velvia with some Provia. The
slides were scanned with a Nikon LS2000 scanner and SF-200 batch
scanning attachment at full resolution (2700 dpi). Subsequent digital processing was done with Photoshop 5.0 and 5.5.
Adobe Image Ready was used for the conversion to jpegs. |
