Source: WTL digitized analogue photograph taken in the morning at Machu Picchu.
Comments: After being overwhelmed by the thin light before dawn, the thin air, then the first light and the lifting fog, the photographer-professor used a zoom lens to try to focus on the site he was about to visit just across the encircling outer wall. Machu Picchu is protected by an etherial wall of fog; then an extraordinary mountain chain; then by an encircling wall of mountains; then by its own protective wall. Inside these four rings of protection one finds, if one can, the stone heart of Machu Picchu. (The stone building just inside the stone wall in the foreground has a thatched roof. All of the ruins would have had such a roof when Machu Picchu was inhabited by living Incas. Nowadays, Machu Picchu is inhabited by ... and by tourists and by anthropologists. What does "..." mean?)