Why we travel

[Photo/The New York Times]

Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, Feb. 20, 2011

I'm a photographer and I was working on a couple of projects. I thought that it would be a place with very few distractions. It's a lake that supposedly Aldous Huxley called the most beautiful lake in the world. There's a place called the Sacred Rock, and there's a platform to dive from. I didn't know the diver, but after I took the picture, I showed it to her. She loved it.