Peru, Mar-Apr 2011

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Across the Altiplano

A trip from Arequipa to and from the Colca Canyon, ascends to almost 5000m on the Peruvian Altiplano. The following were taken at the highest point:

Colca Canyon

Views around the Colca Lodge...

...and some lightning at the Colca Lodge on arrival! (Okay, so just a brief bolt cloud-to-cloud caught on the video camera but not bad ;-)

At the Colca crossing, great weather! and the truly wonderful sight of the Condors rising up on the thermals! The following are images from the Mamiya 7II, complete with cropped zooms:

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The following are still full-HD image frames (1920x1080) from the Panasonic SDC-HD9 video camera:

Finally, but by no means least, the following is an H264 compressed and scaled (320x240) video clip from the SDC-HD9 showing one of the close encounter fly overs!


Martin Mee
Last modified: 01:35 The 21 Apr 2011