Carlos Sastoque
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I am a professional photographer who usually writes the text for my assignments. My images and text have been published in many magazines, calendars and books around the world. Carlos Sastoque Photography
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“ In the first steps the skillful worker receives the stone which has been reduced to dust,..rubs it over a wide tilted plank pouring water over it all the time; then, the earthly matter in it, disolved by the water, runs down the plank while the one that has the gold in it stays on the board due to its weight. Repeating this a number of times, first he rubs it softly and pressing lightly with loose-texture sponges it takes away the porous and earthly matter until all is left is pure gold dust”
Isla de Providencia & Santa Catalina are two small mountainous outcrops of land less than 8 square miles both situated 400 miles southwest of Jamaica and a quarter of the way on an imaginary line traced across the Caribbean from Punta Gorda, Nicaragua to Cartagena, Colombia. And a few hours after arriving, there I was, sitting behind this large, black, simpatico and unmet women who decided to take me on her small motorcycle...
The strident cries of a pair of parrots grew louder through the heavy afternoon mist that fell over the Antioquia mountains. A group of twelve persons including researchers, students and curious people like me waited the arrival of eighty of one of the most endangered birds in the world to their roosting site.
Being born and living in a country where most of its surface is covered with forests of all kinds, e.g. cloud forests, rain forests, Andean wet forests I have been practicing and developing my tree-climbing techniques in order to get the pictures of the higher zone of these ecosystems. Once you have gained confidence in the process you will be rewarded by magnificent vistas and great images from the canopy.
