[Geysers] Chile Geyser Photo

[Pat Snyder]

Well, it's late fall and time for things other than geyser reports to  
show up on the list, so here's my contribution for the season:

Last week I did a search on my computer for "geyser" to help organize  
my photographs and lo and behold, this photo, called High Geyser  
Chile, shows up in my search results:
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It was quite a surprise, knowing I had never been to Chile (at least  
not as I recall, ha ha).

After looking through my folders, it turns out that this was in a  
portfolio of pictures by a photographer named James Beal, and, of all  
places, it was installed when I also installed Roxio Toast, the  
program I use for burning CDs. I have no idea why this person's  
photos were packaged with a CD burning program, and it is a little  
odd that a geyser photo would be part of the group Beal selected to  
give to Roxio for the CD.

Turns out there's a little biography of James Beal included in the  
folder, and he is apparently quite the accomplished photographer.  
Here's what it says about his travels to Chile:
  	"In 1993, Beal was hired to accompany a group of river guides on  
an exploratory trip of uncharted rivers in the Amazon basin of  
Ecuador.  From Ecuador, he traveled south to Chile where he would  
stay for four years.  When James was not running rivers in Patagonia,  
he photographed for international magazines, mining companies and  
advertising agencies.  In August of 1996, he was commissioned by the  
British organization Operation Raleigh.  For the next year, Beal  
traveled the length of Patagonia to document the progress of nine  
projects. These efforts ranged from building structures in rural  
communities to scaling snow-capped peaks and glaciers. The images  
Beal captured were used as promotional images for the many sponsors  
of the two expeditions both in Chile and overseas in Britain."

Beal now lives in New Hampshire, so it says, but the link to his web  
site, www.jamesbealphoto,com, doesn't work. And that's all I know  
about this geyser picture--is it most likely El Tatio? And has anyone  
seen other Chile geyser photos by Beal?

Anyway, just thought I would share it with the group.
Pat S.