I created this blog in September 2009, hence the date displayed at the top of the "Location / Excursion" list.
All photographs were taken using my trusty Canon SD880, hand-held. This point-and-shoot style camera is very convenient and capable. However it's not a waterproof / sandproof camera, so I had to keep it under wraps on a couple of excursions. And like any point-and-shoot camera, the image quality in low light situations is poor.
All photographs have been edited to varying degrees using an image editor. Typical edits include cropping / straightening, exposure adjustment (contrast), colour correction, perspective correction, spot fixing, removing distractions and sharpening. Removing distractions means editing out an unwanted element, which could be anything from a small reflection to a person.
From the 700 photographs I shot, I picked out and edited 330 photographs for this blog.
The camera generates images with a 3:4 aspect ratio, which I prefer over the "traditional" 2:3 aspect ratio. Some photos might benefit with a crop to a different aspect ratio, but I've decided to retain the 3:4 ratio in all of the images used in this blog.
The two maps of South America were created from images taken from Google Maps. I manually overlaid the location of each city we visited (or had an interest in).