As a novice in the photography world this is my ULTIMATE dream, to travel the world and capture the world's most unique sights behind the lens! Isn't it incredible? people used to live WITHIN Machu Pichu ages ago yet the walls are preserved and the grass are green. Just, WOW!

it makes me emotional when people reach their dreams. Also, these photographs took my breath away, you're so talented. both in composition, and in finding the story of the moment.

The contrast between the "self portrait video" and this one is amazing. I love that as a creator you can be vulnerable in both situations and still take beautiful images.

It's always lovely to be part of a project, where afterwards you pinch yourself asking: "did this really happen? wow". Congrats! Nat Geo is a big milestone.

All the hard work paid off! You’re so passionate about photograph, NG is privileged to have you shoot for them. Congratulations!

Photographing for Nat Geo has been the dream Ive had since childhood. This is so beautiful and inspiring and energetic to see! Your work is spectacular and powerful, thank you for sharing this story!

This is so cool and I’m so happy to see you thriving 🥹

Storytelling from the heart, pictures from the mind. Awesome.

Great storytelling, amazing photos, amazing composition. Loved all of this. Amazing work!

Taylor this is so incredible! Every - if not most photographers dream! So happy for you and proud of you!!

whoa! imagine taking a break from chatting to language learners from South America to catch up on KZfaq notifications and finding this... Amazing - I'm blown away by your photos here, they really do capture the magic of the locations. Fantastic work! oh.. and the Juan and James moments... the icing on the cake!

What an amazing opportunity, Taylor!! Absolutely love the shots you captured and this video! Sending much love from our team and our musicians ❤🎶

A big huge beautiful CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to you and the Sunny Sixteen team!!! May this be the first of many more steps toward a beautiful future in photography! 🥂 ❤ 📸

This was incredibly inspiring! Tears in my eyes at the end. Congrats u people rock!

Absolutely stunning photos and perfect storytelling. Thanks for sharing and can’t wait to see the doc.

I really enjoy how you narrate in these videos. It’s as beautiful and touching and inspiring as your photos, music and video editing. I love you’re not being shallow and that you appreciate what you do to such extend - it really shows. ❤

We want to see you go on more adventures like this! Those photos are absolutely spectacular!!!!

What a thrill. For every photographer of a certain age, you just lived the dream. Beautiful story and gorgeous images.

Hey, I love that you loved Peru, I'm Peruvian and I enjoy and feel proud when great photographers come here and make their art. You have to come back and continue exploring all the beautiful places we have.

Your smile is infectious. I enjoyed the whole video but the part with James just melt my heart. And you are so pretty explaining all this.

Great storytelling, photos and video! Loving the stuff you’re putting out 😊

What stellar colors! You are a great photographer! I really like your story telling method to share about the trip. Man you and the group have a great set of skills, and vibe! What a neat place that gave you amazing light and subjects.

How cool and warm-hearted is this video, please? Amazing character you are, and well-chosen by NatGeo to do this trip with you on board. Kudos!

Congrats Taylor! Stunning photos and glad you had lots of fun ❤

This is onsane Truly, you deserve that, you are an AMAZING photographer and i am soooooo inspired by your work !!!! Amd seeing niles, caleb, joshua, all the moment family gave me chills 🤧 Congrats Taylor 💖

Congrats TAYLOR!!! SO FRICKIN PROUD OF YOU!

My daughter recently purchased a film camera at a yard sale and that caused me to pull my film camera out of the dust bin so we could take pictures together on a recent visit. I loved taking pictures with her and how we would discuss the most creative photo options. She is a sophomore at Fordham University and the Bronx campus has many photo opportunities. Two years ago, we took the same trip to Peru you just documented in this video. We literally went to every site you went to but for your climb at Machu Picchu. I now wish my daughter had taken up photography before that trip because we missed so many photo opportunities. This video was very inspiring to me and I am going to share it with my daughter. Great work!!!

Love the look and story ‘s in your photos ! Keep it up and have fun!! 🙌🏼 also nice to see the fuji’s on set!

what a unique opportunity and cool to get glimpses of those cultures. thanks for sharing the story

What a great opportunity. Thanks for sharing it with us. I went to Peru with my family a few years ago. It is such a magical place to visit, and it warmed my heart to watch your video and made me miss Peru.

this was awesome. ur energy, the video, the story telling, & the documentation. keep up the great work! a new fan.

I ve been to all those places and I love taking photos but your photos are more stunning! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing your amazing experience, and it's brought me tear when you said we just did that.

Omg congrats on the work for NatGeo!!! Wonderful video and even more wonderful photos! This is absolutely a dream experience!! I loved every single shot

youre a living a dream a lot of us will never get to achieve. thank you for showing a glimpse of what it would be like, such a great story teller !!

Beautiful images, wonderful story, well-crafted all around.

Amazing video! I was there last summer and this brought back so many great memories. Thanks for the incredible story.

love this!! what an experience. and those photos of juan and james were so special

"Whoa. We just did that." is the reason why I love my photography career. As an artist, there is no other better feeling. On to the next WHOA!

Climbing those stairs with those gears. Wow!! But for National Geographic i'd say that's worth it. Well done you and the Sunny Sixteen team.

It's great to see the Sunny Sixteen crew CRUSHING it with their professional client work - congrats on such an awesome gig! And thanks for bringing us along...

I think the content and story-telling is even better than the photography! :-) I've been to Machu Picchu and Peru - it is so special! Thanks for sharing!

Loved the images and the story (seems you're a good writer, too!). You knocked it out of the box again!

Congrats Taylor!! That’s such a cool experience!

Excellent storytelling. Thanks for sharing all of the awesome photos.

Incredible images, incredible story of a once in a lifetime journey and incredible music... well done!

What an amazing opportunity. Great job with the images and story telling.

What a gem. Thank you for sharing this. What an inspiration

Wow! A dream for most photographers! Congratulations🎉

Huayna Picchu is probably the biggest hidden gem in all of Machu Picchu. Getting to the gate at 7:00 am and taking that crazy hike up the mountain gives the best reward ever. The views of Machu Picchu from the top are just stunning. It's also a view of Machu Picchu that most visitors will never get to see, except in photos. I'm so glad I made that hike when I visited in 2011.

your videos always bring out so many strong emotions I love it. always keeping me stunned. huge milestone, conrats Tay:)

Just returned from 2 weeks in Peru and I have to agree, the colors are spectacular.

Your pictures are wonderful. Thanks for sharing them!!

Wow! I’ve only been following you for a little while, and this seems like a momentous opportunity! Congratulations!

I love how usually one gets disappointed when repeatedly seeing the same pictures of the popular sites but I need to say that not a single picture I saw in this video from you disappointed me and not a single one of those Machu Pichu pictures have I ever seen before. It is such a skill to even in a well perceived environment like this one find the beauty in the details none of the many people visiting had captured before. I am shaken by your talent and am happy you got this opportunity! :)

The photos you took of Juan and James were very touching and beautiful. Amazing record of your trip.

First time to watch it. Woah! Time not wasted... I really love the photos, so great!!! 🥰💯

Girl you are so amzing! LOVE your work!

Amazing video and story telling! BIG UP.

Such an amazing opportunity and some really beautiful visuals! I remember eagerly waiting for the latest Nat geo magazines to arrive at a small newspaper stand + book store that was in my local train station. The imagery and stories totally inspired and influenced my worldview!

Really Beautiful! I am so happy you posted this experience.

Incredible opportunity, so proud of ya Taylor! Also the colours from the GFX50S II are actually ridiculous 😮‍💨

It makes me remember my last Peru trip. Awesome video, thanks for sharing it with us.

THE GOAT DOING GOAT THINGS!!!! BEEN SAYING IT SINCE DAY ONE, YOU ARE THE GREATEST HANDS DOWN! CONGRATS! :)

Awesome landscape and scenery, perfectly portrayed! Love from Germany 🤗

I studied photography in college and on the first day our instructor asked us to write our dream photography job on a piece of paper and drop it into a jar. He read them out and 70% of us wanted to be National Geographic photographers. It’s lovely to see somebody go ahead and do it.

What a fantastic opportunity! Amazing images too! Thanks for taking me along!

Audibly screamed “WHAT” when I saw the thumbnail. So awesome Taylor! You deserve this opportunity!!

wowowow, you reaally deserve this! keep up the great work, you are truly an inspiration :)

Thank you. When you go back to Aquas Celientes look for a cooking school. We had a great time adding to the fantastic experience of the place.

Hello Ms. Graincheck! I dont know your name yet, bc this is the first video I saw from your channel. Just wanna say that it was AMAZING to watch you tell your experience, no motion graphics, no crazy zoom or fast cut to keep the audience. Literally just someone telling a story. This showed me that we can still keep our own styles and we dont need to do everything "for the algorithim". Congrats, you are amazing. *and now I'll go check your channel and discover your name haha

Yep!!! This is the best video in your channel. AWESOME AWESOMENESS AWESOMELY work. Keep going 😊

Thanks...Wonderful! This was a dream job of mine years ago. Still is. Plus James, much love and respect. ❤

Congrats for such a great experience!! Great video and music!!

Congratulations ! ... great experience, great story + lovely photos 👌💯 Very interresting to see how my film photography youtube favorites starting to get great assignments. First Willem Verbeek for Porsche and now you for National Geographic. Seems like this youtube scene is accelerating ! 👏

Im glad your video showed up tp my home page. Peru is such a lovely place to visit. seeing your video brings back memories and that's where i began to travel more. would love to go back again soon. thank you for sharing this.

What an amazing experience, love the images! Best video yet!

this is too great !! love your work

This was such a fun and interesting video to watch. Love the content!

Awesome! great story telling with some really nice shots in there!

Such a cool trip with awesome photos!

Great video as always and the storytelling here is top tier!

Thank you for sharing.Ive never been to Peru but Ive been to Bolivia ,Amazon & Guatemala in 1996 as a amateur photographer it was amazing 💞📸🌿

Awesome video and the photos are stunning! So inspiring.

When you were downloading all of your images in the parking lot, it reminded of when my teacher was telling me about his photojournalism shenanigans back in the early 2000s😂😂😂!Just straight up cataloguing the pictures and getting ready to send them to the daily. Nevertheless, LOVED the video!

I love your channel I'm both jealous and proud of this chance you have been given

incredible work. Shows what can happen if you follow your dreams and stay consistent!

Wow!!!!!! loved the images! loved the Video!! what a great trip!. Congrats on your Nat Geo assignment!!!.

those glorious colorful photos! Now we have the story behind them!

Another beautiful video and journey thank you for sharing!

Very cool. I've been (very) amateur with digital for several years and am just now getting into film. You earned my like and subscribe on the first viewing of your channel. Happy New Year!

How have I never come across your channel before?? Your photos are amazing and the fact that you use Fuji and got to shoot for NG inspires me to keep at it with my xt4

peru is one of my favourite places I've ever been. what an incredible trip!

Absolutely beautiful images. Thank you for sharing.

beautiful and inspiring memory, and thanks for sharing. Peru is in my list already.

Well, you knocked that assignment out of the ballpark. Congratulations!!

Superb. You have a wonderful, soothing nature. A very satisfying watch.

Someday, a video about how you started and progressed in photography would be awesome

what an amazing photo that you really take, really love your shoot. nice !!!

Thats so awesome, your storytelling is so good! Definitely subbing to you, Congratulations!!!!