When I take people to Peru for a photo tour, one of the favorite stops is almost always when we visit a local village high up in the Sacred Valley. Before we all go to their home for lunch, we usually stop by the school (or church) to see all the children.
On this visit, I suggested a group photo for all the children and their teachers. It was fun for them and this way I can print some photos for them and bring them back to them on the next visit.
The kids took a little while to warm up to us, but eventually got used to us and our cameras and I encouraged them to let me take their portraits.
They also went from one child to a whole bunch. They would run out to a spot, let me take their photo...
...and then run back to me to see the photos on the back of the camera.
They were so cute! Thanks to Maureen (one of my guests) for taking these photos of me having fun with the kids.
Then it was time to head up to the house for lunch. On our way up, I saw this baby on mom's back and had to get this shot.
When we got to the house, everyone had a great time taking photos of them preparing our meal.
There is nothing more authentic than this!
Half way through lunch I remembered that I had printed images from our last visit, and brought them as gifts. I went back to our van and got them for the ladies I had photographed. They really enjoyed seeing themselves in print.
After lunch we walked to a ceremonial area, so that they could perform a blessing over the Alpaca. I saw that one of the little boys was helping Maureen to the location and captured that sweet moment.
They rounded up the Alpaca from the fields nearby and brought them into a small area.
We all watched as they performed their blessing.
Two of the ladies performed a dance. After taking a bunch of photos at a fast shutter speed, I encouraged everyone to slow their shutter speed to show the motion of the dance. This was taken at 1/8 of a second.
They offered any of us to pick up an Alpaca for a photo. Bart hoisted this one like it was nothing. :)
We even had a chance to get a group shot with all of us.
After visiting the family, we went back into the local town to visit a market. The people at this market have amazing character and I love photographing them.
Look at that face. :)
While walking around, I saw this cat peek out amongst the eggs and loved that moment.
While we were photographing the market, I was teaching some different techniques. In this case, I was showing people how we could focus on the flowers and make them the subject, while having the merchant be the supporting subject.
I love cheese, and this all looked so good.
This last photo still makes me laugh. I was walking through one of the meat areas and saw this dog sitting by the butcher, waiting for some scraps. This reminded me of a Norman Rockwell scene. Oh...and yes...the dog was thrown some scraps soon after this photo was taken.
The next blog post will be from the Amazon rain forest of Peru. After that, I will start sharing images from the Galapagos photo tour which followed this one. Lots of photo to share with you all!
I also added two more photo tours (Peru and Galapagos) for 2027. You can see those HERE.
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