Llama Buddies at Cascada de Peguche Ecuador Wood Print

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The Cascada de Peguche is a National Park that protects a lovely waterfall in Ecuador in the Andes. It is a fairly short hike to the waterfall on the first day of my REI tour. These two llamas, dressed with traditional local weavings were available for photos for a dollar. The gentleman took your picture, with your camera. I grabbed up my camera to take my own photos of these two cool looking llamas, which confused the guy a bit...but hey I paid my dollar. I loved all these great colors and they seemed to know that their job was to look cute.

I love to tell stories. About twenty years ago I had my first freelance travel article accepted by a magazine. Much to my surprise, the magazine expected photos along with words. I had not taken any during the preliminary work for my article. I drove back to the site and took the photos for the article with my little Olympus digital camera. The article was published with those very amateur photos. In time, I bought an Olympus OMD-EM5, a great camera for nature and travel photographers and discovered that I enjoyed telling stories with pictures more than I did with words. The last twenty year have been an incredibly exciting time as resources for photographers have exploded. I have been lucky enough to have some great teachers along the way...