Where I was filming, take one

[lapsedmodernist]

Lake Titicaca

Uros/"floating" islands




Tortora reed boat

Uros boatman

this is me drunk that night I almost got hypothermia


This is just the first batch of on-the-fly photos, I took a lot more pictures of the islands and the people over the course of filming there with my SLR and will develop & post them soon.

Comments

[londontheory.livejournal.com]

GORGEOUS! EVERYTHING & EVERYONE!
oxoxoxoxoxox

[yanatonage.livejournal.com]

You live a nice life.

[riddley-walker.livejournal.com]

hey i think you friended me, and you seem cool so i friended back.

the pics are great.
is that boat a leopard?
those islands are human made! right?

[isquiesque.livejournal.com]

Wow. Great photos. Post more! Post more!

[la-chispa.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for posting these.

[spawnsong.livejournal.com]

i'm assuming you're still in Ecuador, so are these reed people similar to the ones in Peru? i think someone (it may have been you) once told me that they were subsidized by the government to be living tourist attractions, yes?

[ex-dalenae.livejournal.com]

incredible. how long will you be staying there?

[nearly-there.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are very beautiful... looking forward to seeing the others when you post them!

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

hmm. it might be at 12,000+ feet, but it's quite beautiful there. the construction of those huts (and the boat) is amazing. (how come the americans on "survivor" never make such ingenious buildings?) is it just me, or are you astonished by the fact that everyone (else) there is walking around in the cold barefoot?

btw, post-hypothermia drunkness becomes you. have you dissipated your volcano of anger?

[rootlesscosmo.livejournal.com]

Did you actually set up your tripod in the boat to get that photo of the oarsman? So, in other words, you were in the boat yourself?

[mysteryjesse.livejournal.com]

( likes the photos )

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

It makes me dream...

[damiella.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! Amazing to think places like this still exist (I've been in NYC way too long...).

[castironskillet.livejournal.com]

My God in Heaven. I have all of my grandfather's, father's. and my National Geographics - every issue, in fact - and I keep some favorites seperated for repeated, easy reference. One of them has pictures just like this, except for the last one. I'm powerfully impressed!

Are your lips better?

[landoffools.livejournal.com]

What's the masthead in "Tortora reed boat?"

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

It is a puma. "Titicaca" means "stone puma" in Aymara, and puma is considered the spirit of the lake. Somehow I never feel more like an anthropologist than when I am writing sentences like that one.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Lips are on and off, thanks for asking. The pics turned out nicely, I am pleased with them. Do you mean you have National Geographics with the Uros Islands or just similar vistas?

[tasteetriceps.livejournal.com]

I am just now catching up on a lot of LJs after long absence, so pardon me for asking: what were you filming?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I was filming the residents of the Uros islands, which are man-made islands, made from Tortora reeds on Lake Titicaca. Traditionally they lived by fishing but now they are a huge tourist attraction and a lot of their lifestyle pivots around that.