1969 October Nasca/Nazca, Peru. Maria Reiche, a German schoolteacher and mathematician who devoted her life to the study of the lines and drawings on the Nasca desert pampa. From 1963 onwards Tony and Marion Morrison were frequent visitors and met Maria whenever she could be found, as she used to spend days on end often in isolated parts of the desert. This picture was taken when she was 66, and had already spent 20 years trying to solve the mystery of the now famous markings.

Camera: Nikon F 35mm Single Lens Reflex with Nikkor 50mm F1.4 lens. Film - Kodak Plus X Pan 1/250 second F8. Developed in Lima by Runciegraph, the studio of Walter O Runcie.

Negative - Peru 6770-54-29 © Marion Morrison