Tuesday 23rd July, 2019, 09:00am A lie in. Well… kind of. After post-Rainbow Mountain dinner and drinks, I kind of floated into bed; falling asleep was a lovely, cosy blur. I mostly remember being so grateful for the two hot water bottles that had been placed in my bed. I put one on my feet,
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I lost my drone on Rainbow Mountain
Since my ankle injury I don’t really run anymore, and that’s at sea-level. So it’s pretty safe to say that running at over 5,000 meters wasn’t really something I was hugely equipped for.
But, I ran anyway. Darting about the hillside, thinking every rectangular grey rock was the drone.
The (hailstormy) journey to Rainbow Mountain base camp
Half an hour in. The blue skies disappeared again. And suddenly the wind changed – hard, howling. Hail rained down on us. I thought about putting the camera away – wet smudges obscuring the lens. I wiped them away and kept shooting, running up and down the group as they hiked up.
Mountain Biking in the Sacred Valley
We didn’t really know what to expect so when we started spotting snowcapped peaks out of the windows, the excitement started to build. Mountain biking? Here? With views like this? Yeeeeeeeees!
Acclimatising and drone flying in Cusco
It was chilly. The light was perfect. I saw this orange city in a completely different way than I had before, the roofs all creating this golden quality that just worked with the morning light and the mountains in the background.
Photographing the Amazon Jungle
You know when you don’t even have to wake up early, but you do anyway because you have it in your head that you want something? That was me. I had this vision of getting the perfect jungle video and photos, with the golden hour sunlight filtering through the trees.
Eating too much in Lima | A gastronomical tour
As well as our shot, we had a ginger Pisco drink made for us, and wine served at the dinner table. Safe to say this set the tone for the rest of the trip: alcohol, and plenty of it.
Touchdown in Lima
“The jittery nerves I’d been feeling in the days leading up to the trip just disappeared as I looked out of the plane window.”
“Your photos make people happy.”
– something that was said to me recently. And it’s only just starting to sink in what photo and video means to other people
I’m heading to Peru on a travel photography job!
This morning I’m heading to Heathrow Airport, boarding a plane, and heading to my very first international photography job!