Easter Island, Chile.  Three moai from Tongariki.

Easter Island, Chile.  This was pretty much my setup throughout the island.

Easter Island, Chile.  The rock from which these statues are carved is fairly soft and frail … the moai are literally falling apart piece by piece.  They’re also incredibly weathered as, they are, hundreds of years old.

Easter Island, Chile. The Rock Quarry, the volanic source of all the moai on the island.

Easter Island, Chile. Why does sunset lighting make everything look so much more mysterious? The poet Pablo Neruda called these moai, “children of lava and wind / grandsons of ashes and air.”