Friday, June 19, 2009

I Only Have One Thing To Say About This

Well maybe 2 or 3....

It is not wise to test the love of G_d toward ones self.
Who does this nut case think he is Superman?
Someone needs to tell him, even experienced cliff,
and mountain climber have been known to fall and
die from foolishness such as this. Me thinks he has
watched way to many actions films.

This is a case of a photographer photographing another photographer.
The following pictures were taken by Hans van de Vorst from the
Netherlands at the Grand Canyon, Arizona ...

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 (3,000') here.
The rock on the right is affixed to the edge of the canyon and perfectly safe.

Watching this guy in his rubber thong sandals, burdened 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 on 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 and prepared himself for the jump. This took about
2 minutes. At that point he definitely had the full attention
of the crowd.

This is the point of no return. After that, he jumped
in his thong sandals and only having one hand free.
The canyon's depth is 900 meters ( 3,000 feet ) here.

You can see that the adjacent rock is quite a bit
higher than where he is, and quite steep. He hopes
to use his one free hand to grab on to the rock.

Look carefully at the photographer. He is carrying a camera,
a tripod and also a plastic bag all on his shoulder or in
his left hand. He lands low on his flip flops both his right
hand and right foot slip away.

At that moment I take this shot:


Labels:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

<< Home