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Great story, Joe. Images are amazing. The closest I’ve ever come to this was rappelling down a seven story building (sorry, in New Hampshire ya know) with the fire department doing a feature set on their training. It was a blast. Thank you for continuing to share with all of us.
These photos are hard to look at…I’m afraid of heights. Amazing shoot! And that “one” shot is outstanding!
As usual, your story and captures are unreal. The video showed your camera wit,h what appears to be, a funny looking lens. Can you share what equipment you used that day? Thank you .
Sans Attends?
Amazing shots and certainly vertigo inducing,
By the way, your talks at gulf photo plus are always inspirational, thanks for making the long journey to Dubai year on year
Being crazy is good! 🙂
Dear Joe,
Being pedantic, “Epson finish strong” is meaningless. By neglecting to say “Epson finishes strong” the ad agency loses many people who would simply not be interested. Epson (Seiko?) is a single entity…. as you know, and you didn’t make the rules.
It’s true; as you get older you have to visit the gym more and more just to attempt to keep in reasonable shape. It’s not rocket science. It’s just got to be done.
Regards
Jerome Yeats http://www.jy-photo.co.uk
Looks like a 16 mm fisheye on your camera. My hands are sweating from just watching the video! Fabulous shoot!
Holy cow- you can see at least 3 of my old college apartments from these images! Where’s the video: I must see it!
Woah. That makes my feet and hands hurt just watching you. On the one hand I would love the chance to do it, on the other I would be too worried to be any good, although I tend to forget how high I am when I look through the camera.
I always wondered how hard you had to work for that shot of the Empire State building bulb. Now I know, really, really hard.
Thanks for sharing, great story.
Really cool getting to see the results of the contest. I spent a lot more time than I expected with writing my entry. I realized I’m way too verbose, and having word limits really teaches you how to edit and to make sure every single word is important. I need to do more of that both with my words and my images.
Good to see they found someplace fun for you to climb. I would have had you half way up the wall of this canyon near the VLA with a bunch of buses splashing through a river that is a road.
https://plus.google.com/114778885990131524493/posts/5UjyRGa385E
Keep up the great stories here. They are always fun to read.
Top of the Prudential?
Joe, Great as usual. Is this your last shoot with Drew?? You really have to be missing him by now. I myself get that gut fealing knowing he is gone Time will ease the fealing. Best Regards, Walt.
Yep!
Joe. Scary. Very scary.
Were the antennas powered and in use while you were climbing on them?
They were powered up, but the transmission aspects were shifted to another facility temporarily, I believe.
hmmm, unless you use a self-timer, someone else was up there with you taking the shot.
Of course, Cali climbed with us. He did a great job.