Kind of Blue

The south of Chile is diametrically different from the fiery, red-colored north. Crossing the Andean Lakes from Chile to Argentina, cooler blues and greens and icy whites dominate the scenery. Welcome to Patagonia...

Just as incredible.

Flat-Out Amazing

I still can´t get over it. Almost two months later, I look at my pictures and drool. This place got under my skin and into my veins.

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In my life, I have been fortunate to see incredible places and incredible sights. Yet there are only two, from a rather respectable list, that have categorically overwhelmed me:

Fernando de Noronha and Iguaçu Falls.

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Well, this is a pair no more. To this very select group you can add the Atacama Desert.

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Describe it? There is no way I could.

It is its own dimension.

When life gives you lemons...

Make lemonade, right? The "lemonade" below is what happens when you live in a desert.

The door of this belltower in Toconao, Chile, is made of cactus wood. If you don´t have trees...

Practical, ingenious, and beautiful.

Color Wars

The sun sets and a daily, losing battle begins under the crystal-clear Atacama skies. Red, orange, yellow, pink, blue, purple and every shade in between - a curtain of colors fighting for supremacy only to give way to the suffocating black of night. But until that moment when the very last ray of light falls on the Atacama salt flats...


As much as the war is in vain, these rays of light have allies. Newfound strength is always present in the salt-water mirrors of the Salar the Atacama.

I imagine that fighting the dark might seem easier if you double your efforts...