Chile

Taken in the Chilean Atacama outside of the city of San Pedro. I put my camera up to a telescope for this shot. I think the bottom is blurry because the camera lens wasn't perfectly aligned with the telescope lens. I gave up after 20 min because it was 30F out, and my hands were about to fall off.

The Milky Way captured using just the lens of my camera. The Atacama Desert is said to have the clearest air on Earth because of the dryness and lack of light pollution.

Llama at a rest stop outside of San Pedro. It tasted like beef and was actually not bad.

Photos of people who "disappeared" during the Pinochet dictatorship. Taken at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile.

Santiago

Checking out the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile. Except for the seven behind me, the roughly 1,000 statues of the island face inland. This orientation is so the ancestors, whose spirits exist in the statues, can watch over the living. It's believed that these seven face outward to help seafarers navigate ashore.

I hit a horse while I was driving on Easter Island. I was only going 15 kph, but it ran out from the brush on a narrow road. The people and horse were fine—it ran off after the accident—which I'm happy about, but I still wanted to find the horse and hit it again after I saw the bill.

Chris and me in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia.

More Torres del Paine. The name combines the Spanish torres (towers) with the native Tehuelche paine (blue). The three peaks in the middle are the namesake of the park and I guess reflect blue in the proper lighting.

Guanaco in Patagonia. They are one of the four camelids found in South America, alonside llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas.

A cool building in Valparaiso