Could you photograph at all locations?

[AgX]

This video made me think again:

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/videozone/Gezienoptv/1.2203200

I would have got sweaty hands even withour hair in my sight (maybe that is her trick...)


I once considered photographing at a similar place with a 5x7" (without railing but in full fall-arrest gear), but postponed it for probably never ever day...

 

[AgX]

By the way, the city is Leuven, there are two characteristic buildings in sight.

 

[Alex Muir]

Scary stuff, AgX!! Does the hair give a more 2-dimensional view?
Alex

 

[AgX]

The hair probably blinds out the scary things.
Or makes you miss your footing....

 

[AgX]

What would the rest of you refrain from?

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

I'm not afraid of many things and I can stand up to anyone but I don't like heights. I would've wet myself.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Looks cool, but I rather like Leuven from this perspective--



(Bronica S2A, Nikkor 50/2.8 if I remember correctly, TX/Acufine)

 

[Nodda Duma]

I couldn't help but think that that helmet wouldn't do much good

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

I couldn't help but think that that helmet wouldn't do much good

LOL... right, you are!! It's probably an OSHA requirement.

 

[cliveh]

I couldn't help but think that that helmet wouldn't do much good

Why is she wearing a helmet?

 

[AgX]

As said OS requirement in case of things falling down or you knocking at something. But to me it gives the impressionm as if she was up there unauthorized.
In such case I too would dress as the official operator.

 

[Vaughn]

I was photographing for a cafe -- 8x10 color positives (actually two 4x10's per sheet). I was going to photograph from a balcony of the County court house. But at the last minute we got permission to photograph from the ajoining county jail building. Ended up photographing from on top of the elevator shaft -- that took two climbing up two 20' ladders with my 8x10 and setting up way too high (tallest building in Eureka -- okay...only about equivilent of 6 floors up). I was not comfortable!

Got the images, but the project never got off the ground.

Two images of a total of four in the panoramic:

 

[removed account4]

hi AgX
i would have been Ok but i don't like heights too much ..
i've been in similar situations,not climbing up enclosed ladders from the ground
but on the roof of a TALL office building, having to climb up a 20' ladder to the top of the HVAC unit
which took me above the parapet so i could take bird's eye views of the city below. i didn't have a helmut
i didn't so much mind climbing up the poorly secured ladder or being onto of the building
( it was february i think, and windy and cold ) but climbing down i didn't like.
my escort didn't speak english and wasn't too good at holding the ladder .. it was secured to the HVAC unit with a coathanger
i also photographed from the edge of a drained quarry 300+ feet up ...
i was secured in with a rope that could hold a 15000lb dead drop ( or so they said )
and wasn't permitted closer than 10 feet from the ledge because it wasn't stable ...
not to mention at one point i had to LUG a pair of 4x5 cameras ( in cases ) and my pal with a tripod
across what was called a "grout wall" even higher up .. no security ropes just wobbly rocks and like a 400 foot drop ..
it saved us a 45 minute walk around the quarry. the 2nd time i walked around and watched my pal on the grout wall. ..
and the local teenage kids who played at the drained quarry and invincible ... RUNNING across the grout wall ...

it wasn't the easiest thing to watch ...

 

[Alex Muir]

As said OS requirement in case of things falling down or you knocking at something. But to me it gives the impressionm as if she was up there unauthorized.
In such case I too would dress as the official operator.

A high-viz vest and a hard hat will get you into many places. A clip-board can also be useful....

Alex

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Ugliest language I have ever read and heard , is it flemish , dutch , marollian or brabantish ? I take that flavor of double aa , double ee language as a comics language like syldavian from tin tin , it is better. If I see the guy from our building who have a wild dog wanna attack to me , I will learn that language and give orders to dog with it. Its like washing machine sound

 

[ambaker]

To most people, the language of other people sounds, and looks quite strange.

My grandmother came from Germany in the early 1900s. She said the first time she heard English being spoken, it sounded to her like dogs barking.

One power plant, at which I worked, required climbing a 126 foot (38 meters) stack. Climb was straight up a caged ladder, no rest landings. We had to lean against the cage, if we needed to stop and rest. It was a weekly task that I never learned to enjoy.

27 more days, and power plants and I are done for good.

 

[Vaughn]

My ex-wife is an Aussie. Here in the States people would just listen to her voice/accent and pay no attention to the words -- drove her nuts.

 

[AgX]

Umut, that is Flemish. I rather would place her accent in the Brabant Region, though some accents are very easy to place as that of people from West-Flanders.
I general I love the sound of Flemish.

 

[AgX]

I just gave that video as example as it made me think of how daring I am.
I did not intent to keep this just on vertigo.

 

[Peltigera]

A high-viz vest and a hard hat will get you into many places. A clip-board can also be useful....

Alex

A bucket and a mop will get you anywhere!