Gulfo de Penas, Chile

[Tom Taylor]

This an image of the coast line as seen from the Gulf of Penas in southern Chile (Patagonia). It’s one of my favorite images which I published in the Color Landscapes gallery on my website. Just a few days ago I happened on the David Grann book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder which was made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and to be released soon - probably later this year so not to interfere with the academy award potential of Killers of the Flower Moon. The Wager is a thrilling tale of the sea which I am going to purchase because all copies in all local libraries have extensive holds. Wager island is located on the southern end of the gulf, not shown here, and to the far right of the image. There is a high probability that I photographed it as I had positioned myself on top deck with a Pentax 67II mounted on tripod along with a Pentax K1000 during daylight hours looking for images and had plenty of film to shoot. At the time I had no knowledge of the Wager incident nor a map of the landscape I was sailing through.