SOUTH AMERICA - Emma Durnford Photography

Emma Durnford Photography

All of the photographs are available to purchase. Popular sizes are 8x12" at £55 and 12x18" at £75 both mounted in neutral PH mount board sized at 16x20" and 20x24" (the standard size for 'off the shelf' frames). However I can print in any size so please send me an email via my contact page and let me know what you'd like - I have many more different images in my archives if you cannot find what you are looking for here.

View over the 15th Century Incan site of Machu Picchu in the Andes mountain range of Peru in South America

Macchu Pichu Peru

Boys in traditional dress fish in the Urubamba river running through the centre of Ollantaytambo in the state of Urubambain Peru in South America

Many people from local towns and groups dressed in fancy dress and traditional costumes participate in the 'Tourism Festival' passing through Plaza de Armas in Cusco in Peru in South America

'Festival of Tourism' in Cusco

A stall holder selling corn and grain rests at the end of the day in San Pedro market located between Calles Tupac Amaru and Cascaparo, selling local produce, meat and flowers to the local people in Cusco in Peru in South America

San Pedro Market

The weather changes rapidly in the Andes above Machu Picchu as the storm clouds gather in Peru in South America

Storm clouds in the Andes

Porters wait in between the railway lines as a PeruRail train travels along the railway tracks which end in Machu Picchu Pueblo, with the track passing through the centre of the town with no barriers to prevent people straying onto the line inPeru in South America

Machu Picchu Pueblo railway

A Peruvian Woman in traditional costume weaves fabric in San Blas Square in Cusco in Peru in South America

Weaver on San Blas Square

Peruvian women lead their llamas down Cuesta San Blas in Cusco in Peru, South America

A Peruvian Woman in traditional costume sews clothes fabric using a Singer sewing machine, in San Blas Square in Cusco in Peru in South America

Seamstress in San Blas Square

A woman sells fruit at San Pedro market located between Calles Tupac Amaru and Cascaparo selling produce, meat and flowers to the local people in Cusco Cuzco in Peru in South America

San Pedro market in Cusco

View down Avenida Tullumayo in Cusco Cuzco in Peru in South America

Avenida Tullumayo

A view of the 'Andean Explorer' travelling along the standard gauge tracks of the railway line from Cusco Cuzco to Puno in Peru in South America

Andean Explorer passing through the Andes

A sign warning of grazing llamas and alpacas on the shores of Lake Titicaca near the town of Puno in Peru in South America

Beware of Llamas!

A Peruvian woman in traditional dress holds a lamb in a crocheted bonnet, in Plaza de Armas in Cusco Cuzco in Peru in South America

Peruvian national dress!

The street lights of Puno reflected in Lake Titicaca at night in Peru in South America

Reflections of Puno

View of the street lights of La Paz at night in Bolivia in South America

Rooftop view of the Church of San Felipe Neri (Oratorio de San Felipe de Neri) with views of the town of Sucre in the background in Bolivia in South America

Church of San Felipe Neri in Sucre

Skeletal remains of the 'Chullpas' - pre-Incan people - in an underground cemetery in the foothills of the volcano of Tanupa, along with offering/votive bowls in Salar de Uyuni Bolivia in South America

Chullpas Cemetery, Bolivia

A distant vehicle creates an optical illusion of distance as it crosses the bright white surface of the Salar de Uyuni - the worlds largest salt flats in Bolivia in South America

View across the pink/red water of Laguna Colorado (Red Lagoon) - a shallow salt lake in the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, with James's flamingos feeding in the water in South America

Laguna Colorado

Salvador Dalí Desert (a.k.a. Dalí Valley, Valle de Dalí), a barren valley entirely contained within the borders of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, characterised by landscapes resembling surrealist paintings by Salvador Dalí in Bolivia in South America

Salvador Dalí Desert

Stilt houses (palafitos) -colourful timber houses on stilts which were once the traditional dwellings of fishermen on the seashore of Chiloé Island in Chile in South America

Statue in La Recoleta Cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, containing the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón in Buenos Aires in Argentina in South America

La Recoleta Cemetery

Dawn mist at the Petrohue Falls near Todos Los Santos (All Saints Lake) in the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park in Chile in South America

Dawn mist at the Petrohue Falls

View down onto the north face of the Perito Moreno glacier and the Lago Argentino lake with ice and small icebergs in the water, created when the glacier calves in Argentina in South America

North face of Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

Rooftop view of the Church of San Felipe Neri (Oratorio de San Felipe de Neri) built from 1795 to 1799 with views of the town of Sucre in the background in Bolivia in South America

Church of San Felipe Neri

Icebergs floating in Lago Argentino calved from the Upsala Glacier - a large valley glacier in the Los Glaciares National Park, flowing from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and feeding the nearby Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina in South America

Icebergs and the Upsala Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

View from a boat of the ice face of the Spegazzini Glacier reflected in the water of Largo Argentino in Argentina in South America

Spegazzini Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

Isla del Luna - a tiny island in Lake Titicaca known for its mythological significance to the Incas and home to the ruins of the Temple of the Virgins in Bolivia in South America

Isla del Luna, lake Titicaca

The 'Devil's Throat' (Paseo Garganta del Diablo) after heavy rain, the highest and deepest of the falls that make up the Iguazu Falls - the largest waterfalls system in the world comprising of a number of cataracts with the Upper Iguazu River flowing over and forming the Lower Iguazu River below in Argentina in South America

'Devil's Throat' at the Iguazu Falls

The ice face of the Spegazzini Glacier reflected in the water of Largo Argentino in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina in South America

Ice face of the Spegazzini Glacier

The Witches' Market (El Mercado de las Brujas or La Hechiceria) located in the Cerro Cumbre district of La Paz, includes potions and dried llama foetuses - offering to the goddess Pachamama, Bolivia in South America

The Witches' Market in La Paz

View over the Iguazu Falls - the largest waterfalls system in the world comprising of a number of cataracts with the Upper Iguazu River flowing over and forming the Lower Iguazu River below in Argentina in South America

Iguazu Falls, Argentina

Rusting locomotives trains in the train cemetery, outside Uyuni and connected to it by old train tracks in Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia in South America

Loco Graveyard in Salar de Uyuni

Two Tango dancers demonstrate classic dance moves outside in Plaza Dorrego and entertain onlookers, in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires in Argentina South America

Tango dancers in Buenos Aires

Rusting locomotives trains in the train cemetery, Uyuni de Salar in Bolivia in South America

Loco Graveyard in Salar de Uyuni

Isla Incahuasi (Inkawasi, Inka Wasi) - a rocky outcrop of land and a former island in the middle of the Salar de Uyuni on which very large cacti (Trichocereus pasacana) grow in Bolivia in South America

The bright white surface of the Salar de Uyuni - the worlds largest salt flats, over 10 meters thick in the centre forming hexagonal shapes in the dry season, originally formed from prehistoric inland lakes in Bolivia in South America

Morning view of the very small town of San Pedro de Quemez and hotel Tayka de Piedra near Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia in South America

San Pedro de Quemez

A pen of llamas (Lama glama) behind the hotel in San Pedro de Quemez near Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia in South America

Costumed participants in the festival of 'Our Lady of the Rosary' dancing in the town square of San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama desert in Chile in South America

Festival dancing in San Pedro de Atacama

View along the railway tracks across the Bolivian Altiplano in Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia in South America

Railway tracks across Salar de Uyuni

James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), also known as the puna flamingo, named after Harry Berkeley James, a British naturalist - a species of flamingo that only lives at the high altitudes of Andean plateaus in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, South America

James's Flamingos

View towards a dormant volcano across one of the salt lakes in Salar de Chalviri - salt flats in the heart of Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, with James's flamingoes in the foreground in Bolivia in South America

Salar de Chalviri, Bolivia

James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), also known as the puna flamingo, named after Harry Berkeley James, a British naturalist - a species of flamingo that only lives at the high altitudes of Andean plateaus in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, South America

James's Flamingo

Street art on the corner of the streets of Galos and Almirante Montt, in the Cerro Alegre district of Valparaiso in Chile in South America

Street art in the Cerro Alegre district of Valparaiso

Festival masks outside of the church in San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama desertion Chile in South America

James's flamingos (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), also known as the puna flamingo, named after Harry Berkeley James, a British naturalist - a species of flamingo that only lives at the high altitudes of Andean plateaus in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, South America

James's Flamingos

View of the colourful houses of Valparaiso overlooking the Chilean Naval ships in the harbour in Chile in South America

Valparaiso and harbour

A metal sculpture of a woman at La Puntilla on the shore of Llanquihue Lake in Puerto Varas, pointing towards the Osorno Volcano in the Lake District/Patagonia in Chile, South America

La Puntilla, Patagonia

Street art in the Cerro Concepción district of Valparaiso in Chile in South America

Street art in Valparaiso

Dawn mist at the Petrohue Falls near Todos Los Santos (All Saints Lake) in the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park in Chile in South America

Dawn mist at the Petrohue Falls

View across Lago Argentino towards the mountains of the Andes, viewed from El Calafate in Argentina in South America

The Andes in Argentina

View onto the ice cliff face of the Perito Moreno Glacier, in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina in South America

The ice face of Perito Moreno Glacier

View down onto the north face of the Perito Moreno glacier and the Lago Argentino lake with ice and small icebergs in the water, created when the glacier calves in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina in South America

North face of Perito Moreno Glacier

The blue ice of Perito Moreno glacier, with ice formed and compressed over millions of years in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina in South America

Blue glacial ice

View from a boat of the ice face of the Spegazzini Glacier reflected in the water of Largo Argentino in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina in South America

Spegazzini Glacier

The Centurion Del Atlantico - an Argentinian fishing vessel - and reflection, in the calm waters of the port of Ushuaia in the Tierra del Fuego National Park, with the snow capped Andes behind in Argentina in South America

Centurion Del Atlantico, Ushuaia

South American coati (ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua) in the Iguazu jungle in Argentina in South America

South American coati

Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse reflected in the calm waters of the Beagle Channel, built in the 1920's and still in service today although remote-controlled, automated, and uninhabited in Ushuaia, Argentina in South America

Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse in the Beagle Channel

Toco Toucan (Ramphasto toco) - the largest toucan in the world in the trees of the jungle at Iguazu in Argentina South America

Toco Toucan in Iguazu

Two Tango dancers demonstrate classic dance moves outside in Plaza Dorrego and entertain onlookers, in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires in South America

The ARA Presidente Sarmiento - a museum ship originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s permanently moored on the Rio de la Plata riverbank in the Puerto Madero district of Buenos Aires in South America

ARA Presidente Sarmiento, Buenos Aires

Interior of the San Telmo fruit and vegetable market - the Mercado de San Telmo, declared a national historic monument situated on the corner of Defensa and Carlos Calvo streets in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires in Argentina in South America

Mercado de San Telmo in Buenos Aires

View over the Iguazu Falls - the largest waterfalls system in the world comprising of a number of cataracts with the Upper Iguazu River flowing over and forming the Lower Iguazu River below in Argentina in South America

Iguazu Falls with rainbow

Two Tango dancers demonstrate classic dance moves outside in Plaza Dorrego and entertain onlookers, in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires in South America