2009. And this was only a very small portion of it. It was a good year.                                                               Music / Dan Auerbach – Goin’ Home

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Had a shoot in Victoria yesterday for a client in the UK, so I took the ferry over for the shoot out in Sooke, and saw this on my way back through East Sooke. I forgot how rugged and beautiful the landscape is over there, I hadn’t visited since my time when I went to photo school over in Victoria. Seeing this as I drove by kind of reminded me of an oil painting….

I’m trying to get back to posting more, the start of 2010 has been full of planning/editing/website overhauls so I have been busy doing the more tedious side of work-related things.

Plaza de la Constitución – Huancayo, Peru

I feel bad for our North American pigeons sometimes.  Well not that often. Not when they are trying to steal my food at Granville Island. But man do those South American pigeons have it good with their beautiful town Plazas to hang out it at, where people feed them all day long. These photos really take me back to another man who fed pigeons that I photographed in Leon, Nicaragua this spring. It still pains me to think about the fact that those rolls of Tri-X I shot on my Hasselblad are probably rotting, undeveloped, in a dump in Managua somewhere. Losing three months worth of work that you love is a feeling I can’t quite relate to anything else.

Another classy looking old guy on the streets of Peru…

I had to take this guy’s picture.

An little girl on the streets of Huancayo, Peru.  I think above all else, the people of Peru are it’s one greatest asset.  We met so many warm & welcoming Peruvians on our trip, especially Lizet & family in Lima (Shout out!!!).  If you are considering a trip, don’t hesitate, you won’t regret it.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. 2 nights and 3 days of amazingness, with a guide/driver who was drunk/hungover for about 50% of the time. Now in Buenos Aires, my future involves a polo match, a soccer game, and some tango. Ciao!

Just a reminder that my blog is up on http://www.npac.ca this week, tomorrow being the last post. Below are a few of the photos posted to the blog over the past little while.

Well we have made it over 1000 kms via a 150cc made-in-China quality mototaxi. We are now in Puno, Peru and it is looking more and more like we won´t be able to continue via mototaxi because the organizers, The Adventurists, have failed to take the necessary precautions in dealing with paperwork at the border. Almost every single team has quit, there are a few teams who are going to try to press on Monday morning when the border opens for exporting vehicles.

I have been terrible at getting in front of a computer and updating my blog, but there have been so many amazing things to see and do along the way that it is always so difficult to sit in front of a computer.

Anyways, here are just a few of the thousands of photos I have taken along the way. It has been an amazing ride over some crazy 14,000 ft passes, on dirt and rock roads with several-hundred-foot cliffside drops, and through some tiny villages that hardly any gringos ever visit. The journey continues…

All from Huancayo before the taking off on the Mototaxi Junket. More photos and details from our journey in the next few days….Lots to talk about, but never enough time.

Until next time,
Buenos Noches,
-Brett.