Peru features a 1,555-mile (2,500 km) long, narrow desert strip along its Pacific coast, making up about 10% of the country and acting as one of the driest places on Earth.
For that trip, I carried two identical Olympus cameras, the first set with a 24–80mm lens and the second with an 80–300mm lens.
On that day, the guide took us on a flight tour over the Nazca region to contemplate the desert lines.
At the beginning of this trip, I thought that deserts were dull, flat, and boring landscape elements!
At this location, up in the air, I was amazed by the desert’s size, forms, lines, and layers: a flat portion in the middle of the scene full of lines bordered by mountains.
Through the open plane window, I composed and framed the image using a 24mm focal length. The ISO was already set to 400 to ensure a fast shutter speed (1/1600 sec) to avoid motion blur caused by our flying aircraft.
Most of the Nazca Lines were constructed more than 2,000 years ago by the people of the Nazca culture (c. 200 BCE–600 CE). These geoglyphs were created by clearing away the dark red topsoil and stones, leaving the underlying soil exposed. Since the plain where the lines are carved receives little rain or wind, the lines are still visible today.
During that amazing trip, I captured lovely landscape scenes.
