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A few days ago I took 4 people out to a place called Boulder Field. It is a place around 5 football fields in size, and completely covered in different sized boulders and rocks. Hiding in the crevices rattlesnakes can be found. If you step on a wrong rock, it can shift on you. While it was an awesome sight, and a beautiful place, it wasn't the safest. Whats the most treacherous place you have been to take photos? Jul 15 06 05:21 pm Link Lexi Evans wrote: When I was about 16/17, doing a solo trip on the river Rhein in Germany on an inflatable with outboard motor. Jul 15 06 05:28 pm Link For me, probably a railroad bridge over a pond (which was actually part of the Mississippi River). While it doesn't sound all that treacherous it is truly amazing how fast a train can come down those tracks. You think you'll see them coming, or hear them, but by the time you actually hear the train it's already there. And these tracks were rather active -- Lot's of very fast freight trains. You can see one of the images taken that day in my port, but that photo obviously wasn't taken on the bridge. -P- And that was the same day the model was stung on her nose by a bumble bee. But she kept on shooting; neither trains nor bees would stop her! Jul 15 06 05:29 pm Link UdoR wrote: Udo -- I think I'm going to start referring to you as "The Extreme." Jul 15 06 05:31 pm Link I don't know if this is the most treacherous, I'd need to think harder. But since I just returned from this shoot an hour ago, it is fresh in my mind. A model and I found our way into an abandoned 4 story factory in Milwaukee. The floors had holes in them, it was clearly trespassing, and the potential for riff raff hanging around inside was high. The most unsettling part was the matress on the floor on the third level. a pink condom lie on the ground next to the mattress. A six pack of empty Miller Lite tall cans also sat on the floor next to the mattress. There was a blanket partially covering a magazine and all we could see of the magazine was part of the title "Teen Butt...". I think we got some really good shots and a place for me to use in the future? In regards to the first entry, I did a shoot once in the middle of the desert. I didn't think about it at the time when I was running through a bunch of shrubbery and rocks about the likely potential of encountering rattlesnakes. That could have been bad or a great shot. Jul 15 06 05:31 pm Link UdoR wrote: wow....and I was proud of myself when i took pictures on a beach in December! I went in a t-shirt, to make the model, who was topless, feel better! Jul 15 06 05:32 pm Link LOL, where do I start?  The north shore of Lake Superior, where a 40 pound rock bounced off my head. Arizona, where I scaled almost vertical rock walls without a harness or real climbing shoes. Northern Minnesota in the winter, where I was asked to lie on the snow and put my feet in water that was still icing out. That was the scariest one - my feet went numb after 30 seconds. Jul 15 06 05:35 pm Link I also want to mention regarding my last shoot. The two other models that were no calls and no shows to this shoot today. Catherine did show up, on time, from Chicago, with bronchitis. Not any likelihood that they will read this because I am sure they are at a funeral or in a car accident, but if they do, you are two more models who shouldn't be. Jul 15 06 05:36 pm Link Despite the sheer altitude of shooting from the top of european castle turrets, and bell towers, they aren't all that trecherous... I mean They've been standing for hundreds of years. The two that made me feel most nervous were shooting, while climing long's peak in the Rockey Mtn Ntl Park. There is also a small cliff in souther Wisconsin (about 1,000 feet) where I had to lay on my belly with my head and chest extending over the cliff so I could get the right perspective. Jul 15 06 05:49 pm Link The Vietnam war an experience you never forget,from aerial photos to the fight, the camera my old trusted nikon Ftn and motor drive greatest piece of camera on the planet, Second dangerous place ,,in a federal court when I covered the Hoffa disappearence trial and in the middle of a television news crew interview with one of the key mob bosses my camera fell from my shoulder strap and hit the floor,when I saw all eyes on me I saw my life flash before my eyes. I guess this is why I went commercial,, Jul 15 06 05:51 pm Link e-string wrote: OK... it's official! You're crazy Jul 15 06 05:53 pm Link Pat Thielen wrote: haha, I think it was after. I still wanted to get the shot, but he wouldn't let me. Jul 15 06 05:56 pm Link e-string wrote: Crazy. Definitely crazy. Yeah... Jul 15 06 05:59 pm Link I went away this week to pennsylvania and took lots of photos in the woods....at last count I had 148 bug bites.....that might not be treacherous...but it sure was annoying! Jul 15 06 06:00 pm Link Lexi Evans wrote: At least they weren't rattlesnake bites. Those can be a little more than annoying. Jul 15 06 06:02 pm Link I hung of the side of a cargo ship so I could shoot down on a tug boat along side of it. One hand on the rail, one on my camera. Unfortuanately I was in the marine corp and the Cpt of the ship was not pleased. Jul 15 06 06:02 pm Link I have laid on the main runway at BWI airport with a DC-10 taking off over me. The wheels were about 20 feet to my left. I had to grab the camera and cover from the jet blast as it rolled by at over 100 knots. There was also hanging out of a helocopter to take pictures of torpedo tests for the US Navy in the Bahamas. Here are a couple of pix I took from that job:   Malodave Jul 15 06 06:06 pm Link One time, I lay down directly on an East Village sidewalk. And another time, I had to press my face onto the floor of a Lower East Side bar. *shudder* I know...I walk on the wild side. (Or I should just get a right angle viewfinder...) Jul 15 06 06:13 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: A right-angle viewfinder can take all the danger out of those shots for you. Don't laugh -- a craned neck can be very annoying. Jul 15 06 06:18 pm Link The only thing that comes to mind is the time I was doing some long exposure night shots of the cooling towers at a nuclear power plant. After about a half dozen shots, a scene unfolded that was somewhat similar (though not quite as extreme) as that at the beginning of that article "the War on Photographers." I do more night photography now than anything else, so it is not uncommon to encounter police. The smaller the town, the more ornery they are. Cops in bigger cities have important things to do. Jul 15 06 06:34 pm Link I had the idea of shooting a bi-plane once from another bi-plane and wanted to get an aerial shot from above...so I got a two seater to shoot from and while I was on the ground and the pilot had it in the air for a test run it crashed right in front of my eyes...luckily the pilot only broke his leg but it scared the shit out of me and when they said we can get you another plane I politely said thats ok I think I might try a different idea lol! GW Jul 15 06 08:14 pm Link LOST COUNT! OUT OF WINDOWS IN LONDON ON HIGH WALLS TRESPASSING GRAVEYARDS HERE..... UP CLIFFS UNDER CLIFS IN CAVES IN WATER / WAVES IN STORMS AT NIGHT NAKED - ANYWHERE! ESPECIALLY IN A CRAB POSE ALSO NAKED AT NIGHT STRETCHED OUT IN THE STREET SUSPENDED BALANCING EVEN TETERRED ON THE FOOT OF A MALE MODEL, PRETENDING TO FLY! AND TREACHERY OF BROKEN HEART - WITH LOVER PHOTOGRAPHER WHO TURNED TREACHEROUS ...THINKING THAT you ARE TREACHEROUS YOU NAME IT! THE RATTLE SNAKES WITH mIKE wALKER WAS PROB THE MOST DANGEROUS THOUGH.IT JUST JOINED US FOR A WHILE HISSSSSSSING........ ;-) Jul 15 06 09:53 pm Link The abandonned pumping station Charles Kimball (10831) took me to. Besides being off a remote highway in Jersey, it was back aways in the woods. Piles of rusty sharp things, broken floor boards (that were ready to break some more), and some narrow walkways over a 6 foot drop into fetid water. And pits of pirhannas! On fire! Now I know where he hides the bodies. Jul 15 06 10:17 pm Link -Implied's during an ice storm -In a burnt down, ashy house Jul 15 06 10:23 pm Link On a beach bikini session, I decided to try a reverse angle shot and waded into the waves to catch the model near the water line. The assistant stayed off the side on the sand. Suddenly a undertow caught my legs and started to drag me down and out. I managed to get back close to shore and stood up to find the model and assistant rolling on the sand laughing. I was not amused and asked why they were laughing. Evidently the whole time I was fighting the current and being tossed around, my right hand with the camera was held straight up above the water keeping it dry. They saw the swirling surf and this hand with a camera up in the air the whole time. Jul 15 06 10:29 pm Link The old Hotel Fresno in (where else?) Fresno California. A place of glorious magnitude in it's heyday, the entire place was filled with riff-raff squatters. Drug addicts, alcoholics, homeless etc. We had a gig to shoot the building across the street and wanted the clear view from the roof (6 or 7 stories). We got legal access and went in with a 4x5 camera rig. All the windows were boarded up, the walls had been stripped of wiring, grafitti everywhere and the scurrying sound in the background never left us. Weirdest part was at the end of the hall on every floor, someone had hauled all the toilets over and thrown them out the window!! There was a huge pile of shattered toilets on the roof below so we shot that and some amazing grafitti. Most shameful thing was the ceiling in the ballroom, all stained glass and all smashed everywhere. We got our shot of the building but one of us kept lookout the entire time. Jul 15 06 10:39 pm Link On New York street on the Paramount Lot, Star Jul 15 06 10:50 pm Link Used to do a lot of work like this. Shot while wearing full fire gear and breathing apparatus INSIDE places on fire; sewers; building collapses; after the fire scenes; explosions; the lot. Getting this one destroyed my flash [melted the Fresnel] I've also been threatened; shot at; chased by dogs and sundry other critters; ect. Great fun!  Studio36 Jul 16 06 06:43 am Link Climbed lichee rock in northern A.Z. I couldent get the angle I wanted.climbed over the edge and made a fist in a crack in the sandstone.put my feet on the side and leaned out to get a shot of the powerplant.....about 1000 feet streight down with no safty gear There was a bloon altitude record a teem was trying to break.I was covering it for the local newspaper.They had alot of exotic explosive gasses for use high up. about an hour before anything was suposed to hapen something went wrong and it exploded.I was close enugh my first three shots were only fire.the burning bloon went over my head as it seperated from the basket. Severl hundred people stampeeded..................only 2 got photo's copper river A.K.......................if you fall in you won't get out Morgans landing A.K. Came through the brush running into a bear...........The area was closed because a bear had just killed some guy an hour before.Luckly it wasent the same bear but it took severl minits of me looking at the bear about five feet away with a gun aimed at my back by a freind.The goal was to drop if it charged so he could get a shot.We slowly backed up when the bear stoped growling and relaxed slightly photographed a gunfight on south 35th and vanburen one night in Phoenix many others including running into a mountain lion a few nights ago It was coming streight at me so I set off the flash It let out a hiss and was gone like a flash............pun intended Jul 16 06 08:46 am Link Had to be hiking to a waterfall in PA with two photographers- Loose rock came flying at me and sliced open my right wrist- 10 stitches and having to hike all the way back to the car with a towel wrapped around me to help control the bleeding..... and now I have another scar on my wrist that needs to be photoshopped out  Jul 16 06 09:50 am Link Take a close look at the avatar... yep... it's (well built fitness model MM#2759) Peggy Vee... in a strong surf and deceptive undertow. Now... picture Erika Leyva (very petite 5'1, 90 pound model MM#20084)... trying to survive in those same conditions. Well guess what... she almost DIDN'T! During our June 18th Laguna Beach shoot, Erika got caught unsuspectedly in this same surf... and was sucked out to sea, as we listened in horror to the screams and cries from her mother Linda. Photographer Bill Lopez jumped into that strong undertow and rescued Erika from what was a life threatening situation no doubt. Next time, Erika said she will be posing in much lighter surf, closer to the shore...  Jul 16 06 10:25 am Link Select Models wrote: Don't suppose anyone kept shooting... or did they? Jul 16 06 11:03 am Link studio36uk wrote: Nah... actually... we were all laying down bets on whether or not Bill's Minolta digi-cam was going to survive the whitewater... we're a bunch of sick humor puppies... lol... Jul 16 06 11:32 am Link Well, a photographer wanted to shoot on the roof of the building. I had to go up a thin, rusted ladder for about two stories. The thing is, if someone was to fall, there was nothing to keep us from falling 4 stories, as the ladder was on the side completely of a very thin balcony, at the complete end of the building. Quite a long drop. I'll never do this again. Ever. Especially not with high heels. The worst thing is, the photographer haven't sent me pictures of me on the roof. I feel like I've done this for nothing. Jul 16 06 12:01 pm Link Last week - A burnt down house. I don't have the images back yet, but I'm excited to see them. The house was pieces of a cinderblock frame and a huge pile of rubble. We were driving to the location we were going to shoot at and I spied it through the woods and we pulled over. The floor was halfway caved in, leaving the basement with a very perilous hanging roof. Rusty nails poking up everywhere. Twas much fun ^_^. ~Keeper Jul 16 06 12:09 pm Link kudos and thanks to FIRE fighters everywhere wow Jul 17 06 12:26 am Link hmmm.....gaza is always interesting when bullets are flying......been some intersting times in ramallah and syria too.....nothing wakes you up quite like the sound of a grenade letting go Jul 17 06 02:28 am Link global vision wrote: Unless it's in bed with you Jul 17 06 06:57 am Link |
