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Daredevil Photography
I’m coming to realize that I live in the wrong place for the photography I love to create. I have a real passion for creating long exposures in which the clouds (or whatever else is moving) are captured as a beautiful swirl of motion. Unfortunately, I live in Los Angeles, where we “suffer” from blue skies and sunshine about 360 days of the year.
I’m not really complaining, the weather here is truly amazing. Nonetheless, it is rare that there is a stormy day and that I’m able to shoot it. The stars lined up for me yesterday, as my portrait session was cancelled due to a sick baby and we had a much needed rainstorm.
It was raining pretty heavily when I set out with my camera. I decided that the hiking trails would be too muddy and unsafe, so I had to come up with somewhere else to shoot. I loved the view I had from my fourth story apartment, so a street-level view wouldn’t do.
I didn’t title this post “daredevil photography” because I was shooting in the rain, but because this was my solution:
Carrying my camera on a full-sized tripod, with lenses and filters in my pockets, I climbed out a window onto the metal fire escape grating. The metal was wet and there was an opening in the floor right behind me. I had about four square feet of space. Changing lenses and filters was nerve-wracking; anything dropped would fall four stories onto the sidewalk.
I think it was worthwhile:
I admit it really isn’t that dare devilish, so if you want other cool daring photography, check out Dennis Maitland‘s work:
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