My passion for photography was first ignited in the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes where I lived in the windy town of Latacunga, the capital of Cotopaxi, for nine-months. A guitarist myself, I was breathless as I stepped into Señor Edmundo Lanas' workshop. The ex-NASA Programs Director for Ecuador (which has one of the clearest views of the night skies) started building his first guitar after he was brutally beaten while attempting to protect a woman from thieves. His assailants had nearly crippled him, and Edmundo could barely leave the house. Desperately needing something to take his mind off the isolation and pain of the slow healing process, he borrowed tools and materials from his father's furniture shop and began making his first guitar.
Since then Señor Lanas has handmade some of the finest concert classical-guitars in the Americas. His designs are both entirely unique and elegantly traditional. I've met numerous luthiers, but never have I met one who has so closely analyzed the quality of sound that the instrument exudes, and then been so disctinctively creative about manipulating it.
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