Really Crazy Photographer !!

Written by : Anna Munandar

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Dedicated Photographer (or should I say crazy?)

A friend of mine email this to me. I thought I'd share with you how crazy photographers can be. The following pictures were taken by Hans van de Vorst from the Netherlands at the Grand Canyon. The descriptions are his own. The identity of the photographer in the photos is unknown.



"I was simply stunned seeing this guy standing on this solitary rock in the Grand Canyon. The canyon's depth is 900 meters here. The rock on the right is next to the canyon and safe. Watching this guy on his thong sandals, with a camera and a tripod I asked myself 3 questions:

1. How did he climb that rock?
2. Why not take that sunset picture from that rock to the right, which is perfectly safe?
3. How will he get back?

After the sun set behind the canyon's horizon he packed his things (having only one hand available) and prepared himself for the jump.This took about 2 minutes. At that point he had the full attention of the crowd."







"Look carefully at the photographer. He has a camera, a tripod and also a plastic bag, all on his shoulder or in his left hand. Only his right hand is available to grab the rock and the weight of his stuff is a problem.

He lands low on his flip flops, both his right hand and right foot slip away...

At that moment I take this [the last] shot. He pushes his body against the rock.

He waits for a few seconds, throws his stuff on the rock, climbs and walks away. Presumably to a bathroom to change his shorts.

...I know I had to change mine and I was just watching!"

That guy is nuts! It got me thinking though if I'll be doing such thing in the future...

Landscape Photographers

For who likes taking shots of landscape, I recommend you reading "Six Situations Where Tripods are Essential for Landscape Photographers" which written at:

Six Situations Where Tripods Are Essential For Landscape Photographers

That article is very useful for you who want to be a great landscape photographer someday or even who is really lazy to take the tripods out which are supposed to realize that the tripods are very fruitful to take better landscape photographs.

Enjoy taking landscape photos!