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November 16, 2007
Manu Nature Reserve
This slideshow is composed of original images I shot in November of 2007 in the Manu Nature Reserve in the Peruvian portion of the Amazonian basin, including the Cloud Forest, the Eyebrow Mountain Range of the Eastern Andes, and the "Alto Madre de los Dios" (High Mother of the Gods) River and surrounding jungle.
Most of these images were taken with my old Canon EOS 20D and a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens, after I dropped my brand-new-two-week-old Canon EOS 40D camera and Canon EF 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens into a natural volcanic hot water spring by the river while bathing. Doh!
For this trip, I had my own 16 meter boat, my own private boat captain (Boris), my own cook (Rosana), and my own private jungle guide (Wilbert, aka Tarzan). This is the way to see the Amazon basin. :)
This slideshow (4:24) is a 20 Meg self-playing executable named manu.exe created using Imagematics StillMotion PE+. The soundtrack is I Want To Believe You by Lori Carson & Paul Haslinger, off of the Crazy/Beautiful soundtrack.
Click here to download the presentation. If you have an Apple, or you're running Unix, or if you're nervous about running a .exe file from my site, then click here to download the Macromedia Flash version. The resolution is not quite as good on the Macromedia Flash version, and you can't pause and go backward and forward, but it loads faster, and it's a fairly decent presention. Click here if you need help.
To see all of the slideshows, click here.
Lyrics in the extended entry.
Update: These photos are very rough, and could all use some work. They were shot with my backup camera, afterall. Also, I have thousands more photographs to dig through from the mountains and the desert, but these will probably be the best of the rain forest images, for what it's worth. I'm going to sleep now, as my plane left Peru this morning at 1:22 a.m. (EST), and I'm exhausted.
Lori Carson & Paul Haslinger - I Want To Believe You lyrics / Crazy/Beautiful soundtrack
I want to believe you.
I want to believe in us.
When everything is wrong
will you come through?
I want to believe you.
I want to believe you.
I want to believe in us.
When everything is wrong
will you come through?
will you come through?
will you come through?
When everything is wrong?
I want to believe you.
I want to believe in us.
When everything is wrong
will you come through?
I want to believe you.
I want to believe you.
When everything is wrong
will you come through?
Will you come through?
Will you come through?
Will you come through?
Posted by Rob Kiser on November 16, 2007 at 8:30 PM
Comments
More slideshows please. I love that grey kitty...
Posted by: SS on November 17, 2007 at 1:01 PM
More slideshows about animals please! I LOVED the monkeys ,frogs,and kitty kitty!!
Posted by: Red on November 17, 2007 at 1:07 PM
I dunno how many animal photos I have from Peru. I'll look around and see what I have though.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on November 17, 2007 at 1:41 PM
Marty Ray Gordon's Mother speaking here. Hi, if I had known you were going to Peru , we have some real good friends there as Missionaries. They have been there 30 years..
I love your pictures, Keep it up, How are you doing on the fried pies?
Mrs. libbie
Posted by: Mrs Libbie Whitson on November 24, 2007 at 7:32 PM
Libbie,
Didn’t know y’all had friends down there, or I’d have looked them up. I was mainly in Southern and Central Peru (Peru is a large country – bigger than Alaska). It was beautiful. I’m glad you liked the photos.
Now that it is cooking time again, I think I’ll try to get back on those fried pies. No success yet, but hope springs eternal.
Rob Kiser
Posted by: Rob Kiser on November 25, 2007 at 8:25 AM