Chacaltaya, Bolivia is the world's highest ski area with one vintage ski lift
that tows you up to 5470m above sea level. It is somewhat dangerous to ski,
apart from the thin air: You could be hit by hogs falling from the sky.
One of [...]
All images were taken with Nikon analog stuff (F2, FM2) on film through a super crisp and brilliant 2.0 28 mm Nikkor lens mostly, procured with an obscenely low bid from e-bay. A shame people swap such premium glass for wonky DX zooooooms. .................................................................... Slides are vacuumed into the computer by a Minolta slide scanner that makes noises like a roller compactor in the process but amazingly pumps 39 Mpixels per piece into the computer. With those 5400 dpi you can watch bacteria nibbling off the transparencies. .................................................................... Digital helperers include a Realviz Stitching Machine for the super wide panoramas and some Photoshop massage. .................................................................... I'm an animation artist. (animating pixels, not holiday makers)
