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    Jesse Miller

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    While hiking up to the summit of Machu Picchu mountain, on a day with ill-tempered weather, one can lose track of the view and get lost in the smoky chill of the clouds. Soaring heights are diminished to just a few feet and temperatures plummet as the sun is blocked from the skin. Heart rates can rise, not just because of the elevation, but because of the isolation, displacing time for an otherworldly moment. by: jmillerjtm Views[411] A tourist in Machu Picchu takes a photograph on their I-Phone, engrossed in the pixels illuminating their display. Flashes and smiles are temporarily abound in a monument that's seen many faces come and go. by: jmillerjtm Views[428] Many miles from the desert and ocean lies the Andes mountains and the In the remote area of Paracas, just North of Ica, birds dive into the shallow, blue waters of the Pacific Ocean, hunting for lunch while in the background a ship leisure's on its way to an unknown destination. by: jmillerjtm Views[341] Sand-boarders begin the calf-searing climb up the sand dunes of Huacachina, near Ica in Southwestern Peru. An extremely diverse landscape, Peru is full of contrasts. Here, where ocean meets desert meets mountains, the boarders will ride, leaving snaky trails as the sun dissipates from view, alone to their shrieks and laughter and at whim to the winds of the dunes. by: jmillerjtm Views[365]
     

    The Contrasts of Peru

    Friday, 21 Nov 2014 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

    Be it weekends to the shore or weeks spent visiting relatives in far away states, it all began with family vacations. I would take my parents camera ransom and spend more time behind it than in front of it, usually snapping through a trips worth of film ... Read more >
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    Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship

    Riding on the Wild-Mouse.

    Saturday, 10 May 2014 | Views [408] | Scholarship Entry

    Our Peruvian van-driver never told us the macabre stories of landslides, bus-collisions or flash-flooding watersheds that frequented the road carved into the sides of the Andes Mountains we were following, though most of the tales demised with a plunge ... Read more >

    Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

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