who here is afraid of heights?

[MikMaq]

Everyone scared of height's its a pretty strong instinctual urge.

The element of danger is what makes working at heights interesting.

It's like an adrenaline rush depending on what your use to.

[whitewidow]

I can't say I like them, but they don't make me have to change my route to my destinations.

[gracie bjj]

i remember about 10 yrs ago in manhatten my co-worker lit up a joint when we where up about 17 stories fixing a liner,i remember i got so paranoid i started thinking about the WORLD TRADE CENTER bombing and everytime i heard a plane i started sweating bad,i learned my lesson and never took a hit of a joint again at work. i witnessed to 9/11 bombing live from hoboken where i was working,i was across the river in hoboken that morning and heard a plane hit the tower,i told my buddy and we walked down the block to the port in hoboken and saw the tower smoking from the plane. we said frigg it and said we might as well get breakfast and sit on the benches and than when my buddy was coming back with r egg whites the second plane hit,people knew at that point and alot of people where crying,screaming,yelling ect on the streets.very bad scene that ill remember the rest of my life,we saw the towers fall also and im not gonna lie man i was scared seeing that shit

[hench]

Bet it almost felt unreal but obviously something major was going down. Speaking of the height thing there's footage of people jumping from high up those towers (i think to escape fires). Imagine having to choose between burning or jumping.

i remember about 10 yrs ago in manhatten my co-worker lit up a joint when we where up about 17 stories fixing a liner,i remember i got so paranoid i started thinking about the WORLD TRADE CENTER bombing and everytime i heard a plane i started sweating bad,i learned my lesson and never took a hit of a joint again at work. i witnessed to 9/11 bombing live from hoboken where i was working,i was across the river in hoboken that morning and heard a plane hit the tower,i told my buddy and we walked down the block to the port in hoboken and saw the tower smoking from the plane. we said frigg it and said we might as well get breakfast and sit on the benches and than when my buddy was coming back with r egg whites the second plane hit,people knew at that point and alot of people where crying,screaming,yelling ect on the streets.very bad scene that ill remember the rest of my life,we saw the towers fall also and im not gonna lie man i was scared seeing that shit

[che]

I love heights, I made it in the news about 5 month ago ,helping to build the new Viking stadium .


http://www.startribune.com/video/268951381.html

[Dr.J]

I love heights, I made it in the news about 5 month ago ,helping to build the new Viking stadium .


http://www.startribune.com/video/268951381.html

Love???....love???...how about tolerate?

[Vince B]

I can't say I like heights but I do take risks when out taking photos. I saw photos of some guys out on the end of Hanging Rock near Sydney so put that on my Bucket List. I did this in January 2013 and even took the photo

by myself via a Canon wireless remote control. There was no one else around. Talk about crazy. What was I thinking? Out on the end you are 100 or so metres above the canyon below....on three sides! It took a lot of

nerve to climb down past that almost dead gum tree on the end. I sat on that big stone and inched my way along it. I didn't have to change my underwear but it was scary as hell. Then I had to take photos while there.

Finally, exhausted, I had to carry a heavy backpack about 5 miles back to my car and half the distance

was done in the dark. It was the most agonizing thing I have ever done because the backpack straps were cutting into my traps.

[hench]

sod being up there, let alone sat near the edge! And is that gap in the cliff i see you have to get over?

I can't say I like heights but I do take risks when out taking photos. I saw photos of some guys out on the end of Hanging Rock near Sydney so put that on my Bucket List. I did this in January 2013 and even took the photo

by myself via a Canon wireless remote control. There was no one else around. Talk about crazy. What was I thinking? Out on the end you are 100 or so metres above the canyon below....on three sides! It took a lot of

nerve to climb down past that almost dead gum tree on the end. I sat on that big stone and inched my way along it. I didn't have to change my underwear but it was scary as hell. Then I had to take photos while there.

Finally, exhausted, I had to carry a heavy backpack about 5 miles back to my car and half the distance

was done in the dark. It was the most agonizing thing I have ever done because the backpack straps were cutting into my traps.

[Vince B]

sod being up there, let alone sat near the edge! And is that gap in the cliff i see you have to get over?

The gap is about a metre wide. That is why they call it Hanging Rock. Takes a bit of nerve to jump over it. Here is a shot looking down from where I was sitting.
I brought a harness and rope to fasten myself to the tree but when I got there I decided to climb out there without it.

[Vince B]

Here is another view of Hanging Rock. I must return and have another go but earlier in the day.

Have a look at the dare devils jumping off the cliff and going under hanging rock! No thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hanging+rock+rope+swing+

[Julio Ceasar]

if u scared of heights u weak race!

U get used to hights. I had a job working on buildings with my Trimble total station, scared to death first time, then just got more and more "brave"...and thats stupid!

[thegamechanger]

how did you take that photo from a distance?

[Man of Steel]

not a fan of heights or deep water...another form of heights to me

[gracie bjj]

I love heights, I made it in the news about 5 month ago ,helping to build the new Viking stadium .


http://www.startribune.com/video/268951381.html

man that takes a good amount of solid nerves and courage,i saw some dudes cleaning trhe windows of this builsing i was fixing the ventalation/heating unit on in new york about 17 stories up. they where hanging there by clips that r installed on the outside of the windows, i waved at them and gave them the thumbs up, they got balls of steel imo

[RJ DRIVER]

Hate tall buildings and looking down but can sit in a plane thousands of feet in the air and look out. Never understood that, maybe coz it's so high there's no sense of height from the srroundings

Same here and I'm a pilot. Generally I think it's because I'm enclosed in something. Maybe also because I'm controlling it.

[Vince B]

how did you take that photo from a distance?

I put my Canon 5DII on a tripod. Then I added a wireless remote unit from Canon. Cost over $600 and will trigger the camera from up to 100 metres away.

I turned the camera on, set the delay for 10 seconds and focused it. Then I went down and out to the end. I was some 50 or 60 metres away.  I had a remote control with me and

clicked the shutter then pretended to do something. When I finished I went up to the camera and brought the lot further down the hill so I would be closer.

Then I got out on the end again! Twice in one day. I foolishly brought my 500mm lens with me and it was a burden to carry all that way and then back again. Plus up the hill.

[gracie bjj]

Same here and I'm a pilot. Generally I think it's because I'm enclosed in something. Maybe also because I'm controlling it.

when i get on a plane i have to take some xanax,if i dont ill have a panic attack or something

[Novena]

I foolishly brought my 500mm lens with me and it was a burden to carry all that way and then back again. Plus up the hill.

A catadioptric, prime, or zoom lens?

[thegamechanger]

aha, good photo. looks beautiful there

[Vince B]

A catadioptric, prime, or zoom lens?

Canon 500 F4is prime lens. I now have the 600mm.

[Tapeworm]

Canon 500 F4is prime lens. I now have the 600mm.

All shit stirring aside you should team up with a hiking or photo club out there, V.  That's got to be a lot of extra steps on your own.  If you can catch views like that by yourself you'd get amazing stuff with some extra hands.

Always great pics, dude.

[hench]

Still an impressive photo, disappointed you're not doing the thumbs up, clenched fist or pointing pose

Canon 500 F4is prime lens. I now have the 600mm.

[Mobil]

started with atat trouble shooting towers... climb 300ft towers sometimes when the guys up top cant fix it. you have to have faith in your climbing harness, if not you make it worse. seen guys hang upside down fix towers, crazy bastards

[Nick Danger]

I've jumped out of a plane at 13 000 ft but I still can't look down from my 24th floor balcony...

[Alucard]

I am, feeling very uncomfortable... Sometimes i have to work on roofs and bridges, not easy... Gracie bjj would you like to talk about 9/11 via pm?