Scott Holcomb's photos with the keyword: Peru

Just before the ascent into the Cordillera Blanca in the Peruvian coastal desert lie the ruins of Sechín with their granite reliefs of gory battle scenes. The reliefs have remained in good shape in spite of great age (1,000 years or more). This photo was taken by a Yashica Electro 35CC film camera and COLOR-YASHINON DX 1:1.8 f=35mm lens with a Pro 52mm (UV) Japan filter using Kodak Ektachrome 64 Daylight film, the slide scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Chan Chan Ruins Trujillo, Peru Chan Chan was divided into courtyard compounds. The walls were elaborately painted. One can only imagine today what the city was like in it's glory, one thousand years ago. This photo was taken by a Yashica Electro 35CC film camera and COLOR-YASHINON DX 1:1.8 f=35mm lens with a Pro 52mm (UV) Japan filter using Kodak Ektachrome 64 Daylight film, the slide scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

My father used to exclaim in disgust, "Well, that went over like a lead ball over a Mud Fence", when things went wrong. The builders of the ancient Chimú city of Chan Chan near Trujillo, Peru might elicit a similar response if they could get a look at the state of their capital now. This photo from the archives was taken with a Yashica ELECTRO 35CC and a COLOR-YASHINON DX 1:1.8 f=35mm lens using Kodak 135 daylight negative film, the negative scanned with a HP Scanjet G4050 and restored and digitalized with Photoshop tools.

As pretty as a . . . mud fence. This photo was shot from a Yashica ELECTRO 35CC with a COLOR-YASHINON DX 1:1.8 f=35mm lens, scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 from a Kodak 135 negative and digitalized (and restored) with Photoshop

-An Andean alpine valley with sheer cliff faces overlooked by Nevado Hauntsan, 6200m., where my party of 3 camped for the night. We were on a 4-day trek from Olleros to Chavín, Peru. I began my alpine training for treks like this with a friend, scaling the heights of El Tepozteco near Tepoztlán, México, many months before. I lost the 35mm Agfa negatives of this shoot and discovered a faded print in my old photo travel-journal dating back to 1975. Using an HP Scanjet 5470c I was able render a digital image which I carefully restored as best I could with multiple Photoshop operations.