Once the mountains of Peru and Ecuador were covered with cedar trees, but time and Spaniards stripped the land of its once verdant peaks. Cusco, the heart of the Incan empire, too has seen change. What used to be fields and groves where vicuna would graze, now are cobblestoned streets and tiled roofs. There are no cedars in Cusco, save one. For three hundred years, this tree has stood as its brothers fell, protected by the cloisters of the Hotel Monasterio. Cedar trees and others were forgotten in Peru, usurped by the more profitable eucalyptus; their legacy stopping with this tree. Today it still stands, the last, the only, surviving and hopeful.
2010-09-03
1/45 sec, f 4.0, ISO 100, 21.88 m
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