Has photography lead you to being in a dangerous situation?
Only once...when the wife found the receipt showing the true price of the 5Diii I had recently bought...
only in a work situation in the dim distant past (Pentax k1000 with a "Potato Masher" flash), too much time dangling off cradles suspended over a 30m drop into a 1.5m wide annulus of large storage tanks (very Hitchcockian) or walking around the insides of large ship storage tanks with bits falling from overhead.
The worst I've had since retiring is being caught out by a monster wave when busily shooting windsurfing during Storm Brian, I heard a dragging noise which I thought was a surfboard being blown along the beach, turned to look for it and was promptly hit by the wave which broke over me, thank goodness the Olympus system is "splash proof"
The worst I've had since retiring is being caught out by a monster wave when busily shooting windsurfing during Storm Brian, I heard a dragging noise which I thought was a surfboard being blown along the beach, turned to look for it and was promptly hit by the wave which broke over me, thank goodness the Olympus system is "splash proof"
Every time I walk along a pavement or pedestrianised area or stop to use my camera I have cyclists or skateboarders coming up behind me without warning, about 1 in 5 cars refuse to stop for pedestrians at three local pedestrian crossings. Now the authorities want to legalise electric scooters!
Soon I will stop walking & use the car exclusively.
Soon I will stop walking & use the car exclusively.
Shooting near moving traffic is one where you want to watch all around you, either light trails on a traffic island, or accross a crossing where cyclists are all gathering waiting for the lights to change.
The light jump cyclists make their own danger daily -
The light jump cyclists make their own danger daily -
I have fallen over twice when moving whilst looking through the viewfinder and stepped on an uneven surface. I even took a photo once as I was going down! But never any serious damage.
Standing right on the very edge of a cliff at Beachy Head to get a shot of the person and foreground cliffs. At least I wasn't taking a selfie as they hadn't been invented then. The pic isn't even that good, but it was taken a very, very, very long time ago on Ciba and scanned. I wouldn't do it again.
Almost stepped on a five foot snake two days ago inches short with boot
Instinctively jumped up retreated only to discover it hadn’t moved and was in fact dead
Day after walked along a ridge no problems but when returning saw the path was right next to a large well at ground level with thirty foot drop which I hadn’t noticed on way out
Instinctively jumped up retreated only to discover it hadn’t moved and was in fact dead
Day after walked along a ridge no problems but when returning saw the path was right next to a large well at ground level with thirty foot drop which I hadn’t noticed on way out
Years ago...in Zimbabwe at the Victoria falls...I confess to climbing over a low fence to get closer to the edge of things...not appreciating it was possibly wet/slippery grass...with a hell of a long drop into the mess below...wife commented something like...”Here he goes again..” knows me too well...
As Chris commentated above...I wouldn’t do it again....
As Chris commentated above...I wouldn’t do it again....
Behind a viewfinder we can be oblivious to what is going on around us: I can only confess to going flying on a particularly slippery wet rock in Mull, luckily all that was hurt was a few bruises and a smashed lens hood which cushioned my camera and lens.
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Potentially risky, standing at the end of Bride Norton runway with a Herc and C17 coming into land about 20ft above my head, Hoping the pilot is concentrating on reaching the threshold of the runway about 30ft the other side of the fence I'm backed onto to deflect the jet blast.
