Photo A Go Go
Come to Vilcabamba for a day, and stay for three. (Or, like the aforementioned Canadian, come for a week, stay for over a month, and relentlessly judge people). We’ve played our hearts out these past few days: life-sized chess, ping pong, pool, swimming pool games like “handstands” and “swim-through-my-legs” and “guess-what-I’m-saying-underwater.” It’s been great. We’re gearing up for a nightbus to Piura, Peru, leaving at 10:30. We hope to make it to Chiclayo tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, you can click on the picture to view recently uploaded photos. Unfortunately, we’ve run into quite a lot of camera trouble lately: 1) the screen of the new camera we bought for our trip cracked and rendered the camera nearly useless 2) the old camera we brought as a backup is very persnickety. Currently, the new memory chip that we bought to replace the 16 MB chip is not allowing us to put pictures up online. We can take photos just fine and see the photos on the camera, but for some reason when we use our USB camera chip plug in thing, we can’t put the photos onto the computer. Anybody have any advice? I’m thinking that the photos are stored on the chip and there must be a way to get them off, but have no idea what that way might be. All this to say, there are about 200 odd pictures that we can see and you can’t. Ha.
No really, all advice appreciated. We wouldn’t want these pictures to be resigned to a horrible limbo in which they exist only on a 2×4 inch screen. They need to have the chance to live a full, happy life.
-Megan (with help from Sarah)
Tags: Ecuador, Peru, Photography, Preparations, South America, Travel, Vilcabamba
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Cameras! Cameras STINK! Who do they think they . . . oh. We’re not ranting anymore . . . . deep breath . . . deep breath . . . .
But seriously. That’s a major bummer about your camera. I’ve loved seeing your photos and having it made perfectly clear how amazing your adventure really is. Kate and I have stopped taking pictures of anything other than food for the blog. But that is incredibly fun, especially now that I have a tripod.
Have fun in Peru! I’ve always always always always wanted to go. If it were any time other than my semester before tenure, I would get “sick” for a week and come join you. Think of me, your poor decrepid old auntie, as you leap from peak to peak!
I don’t know what kind of camera you have, but I was having trouble figuring out the same thing on my new one and finally discovered the sliding switch — the one that I used to view pics on the camera — had to be in the review mode to get them to the computer. Also, camera had to be on. Other than that, I’ll ask my IT guru tomorrow at work if he has any wisdom.