Here is my narrative describing our trip to Perú. I've linked the corresponding pages from Jonathan's web site so that folks can jump back and forth between them. I took 2,688 shots including 15 video clips totaling (35.5 GB) while on the trip - the images on the site represent a subset of those pictures.
The background on the webpages for this trip is a shot taken in the Larco Herrera Museum in Lima. The image of a gold funerary offering from the Chavin civilization (1250 BCE - 1 AD). I've taken the liberty of altering the color, but not the pattern, to match the color scheme of this site.
The images on the site, unless otherwise noted, were taken either using an Olympus Stylus 1 (3968×2976 pixel RAW file, ~13 MB), an Olympus Stylus 790 SW (3072x2304 pixel JPEGs, ~3.5 MB), or an iPhone 6 (panoramas, videos, 3264x2448 JPEGs ~1.6 MB). I occasionally had a telephoto supplemental lens attached to the Stylus 1, especially for the wildlife shots. On the rainy days, I used the 790SW camera as it is waterproof. Because of the size (~35GB) I did not burn the unedited version of all images onto DVDs for preservation, instead relying on TimeMachine to back up my Mac.
On this site, I've whittled the image size down to two sizes - a thumbnail I use on the page for the day, and a 640x480 pixel (or 480x640 pixel, assuming I haven't cropped or altered the size) image that I've saved optimized for web usage.
A lot of the images I doctored using Photoshop Elements, a trimmed down version of Adobe Photoshop. My most frequent adjustments were: "Crop", "Adjust Light & Shadows" to cope with the extremes of light and dark, "Auto Contrast" and "Auto Levels". I’ve also occasionally run the image through an app called “Noiseless” which degranulates the images I’ve had to really lean on to bring out.
If you'd like the high resolution image, drop me an email (MarkTKing mac dot com) and I'll either email you a copy or set up a page where you can download the image.
