Hello Paulo! Thank you for visiting and commenting! I highly recommend
Peru as a photography destination – spectacular! I hope you manage to go!

Hey Liv! Peru was phenomenal! I was there for 2 weeks, but it felt like a month – and I’m still there in a way.. I’m planning to go back – hopefully later on this year. Most likely the next batch of photographs will be of my next trip. Thank you for visiting – I’m really glad that you enjoyed the pictures! 🙂

Thank you Marilyn! For visiting and commenting. Always appreciated.

Hi Rebecca! Thank you for commenting and the compliment! Nice idea about the photo-journalism book – I’ve set a mental bookmark and will keep it in mind (and make sure I preserve my photos for a possible future project). I also did not know about the 3 different periods, so when the guide at Machu Picchu pointed it out, it was quite exciting to capture the visual progression – and these walls were all close together, so very clear to see. A quick note of interest might be that in fact both these sites were extremely crowded on the days I were there (New Year’s Holidays) – and taking photographs without any people (tourists) in the pictures was quite a challenge, so I was happy when I came back and when I went through all my shots I found that I had enough to compile a proper gallery.

Thank you Debra – glad you enjoyed the images! Yes, isn’t the precision amazing! I’m hugely intrigued by how exactly they matched (fitted) the stones so well together and for example in the case of the curved stone – how did they measure the curve so perfectly? So many questions! impressive is an understatement. In 22 there’s also a vague design (an Inca Cross) on the left stone which fades away into the stone and this must have been carved in purposefully as a motif for visual pleasure – (or for spiritual or symbolic significance perhaps?). Something else that’s interesting is the “knobs” or “handles” on some of the stones – 19, 20 & 21 – I wonder if they were just for design, or maybe to make it easier to manoeuvre the stones, but in 22 it seems to be for aesthetics specifically – they look like “rivets” you would find on a metal sheet… Also I think it’s quite interesting to see the improvement in their skills over time – in terms of how their precision progressed, from pre-Inca (3), to Inca (4), to Inca Imperial (5)!