Entries from 'project 365'
Day 305
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/2000 s
- Focal Length: 200mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
I am writing todays post and editing todays photo aboard our 24 hour bus ride from Iquique to Santiago, fun fun fun. Before we boarded out 2pm bus I had 4 earthquakes for breakfast and then headed down to the beach to watch the body boarders and take some snaps. I really liked Iquique, even…
Day 304
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/1600 s
- Focal Length: 12mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
If you know me, you know I love exploring abandoned places. Today we explored the amazing ghost town of Humberstone, this nitrate ghost town is the reason we came to Iquique. Towns like Humberstone were thriving from the late 1800’s up until the 1960’s by mining nitrate, however towns like this were abandoned when two…
Day 303
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/400 s
- Focal Length: 28mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Usually when I endeavour to spend a day visiting museums in a city I end up choosing to do so on the one day of the week when they are all closed. However today in Iquique we managed to choose a day where most of them happened to be free! The main street of Iquique…
Day 302
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/400 s
- Focal Length: 200mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Finally we are back at sea level! I think the last time we were below 3000 meters was back around day 269 in Ica. We spent over 6 hours on busses to reach the seaside city of Iquique in Chiles North specifically to visit some ghost towns. On the way I spotted a pod of dolphins…
Day 301
- Aperture: f/3.5
- ISO: 1250
- Shutter Speed: 15 s
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
This area of Chile has the clearest skies anywhere in the world. That is why it is home to the worlds largest telescope array in the Atacama Desert and why tonnes of people flock here to stargaze. Unsurprisingly you can do all kinds of stargazing tours from San Pedro De Atacama. We wanted to do…
Day 300
- Aperture: f/4.5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/200 s
- Focal Length: 28mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
DAY 300! I spent this milestone checking out San Pedro De Atacama’s Vale De La Luna which is far better and bigger than the one in La Paz. We stopped to take photos at several key points and the thin layer of salt over everything combined with the backdrop of several massive volcanoes really did…
Day 299
- Aperture: f/2.8
- ISO: 161
- Shutter Speed: 1/3800 s
- Focal Length: 2.8mm
- Camera: Hero3-Black Edition
This is me floating in Cejar lagoon outside of San Pedro De Atacama, Chile. These 3 small lagoons in the Atacama desert are just as salty as the dead sea, which means you can float around in them without any effort! I have always wanted to try this in the dead sea and until a few…
Day 298
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/640 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
We woke early to watch the sunrise over the lagoon and hot spring from the comfort and warmth of our accommodation. The temperature during the night easily dropped below zero and as we were watching the sunrise we also watched all the other tour groups arrive and take a dip in the hot springs. Within…
Day 297
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/800 s
- Focal Length: 200mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Last night I discovered something else which I had never really given any thought (after yesterdays cacti epiphany). Static electricity produces clearly visible sparks! Almost everything in the salt hotel was made of salt, which meant the salt bed had a sheet of plastic between the salt bed frame and the mattress. Salt carries an…
Day 296
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/2000 s
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Uyuni Salt Flats, the largest salt flats in the world! Our 3 day salt flat tour began with a quick stopover in the train graveyard that we had already visited yesterday evening, however now the guide was able to explain the history behind the graveyard. The trains were built by the British and bought by…