On 3/30/06, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> > Those beautiful Joel Wilcox's landscapes makes me wonder about how close to
> > an edge a photographer can get, without later feeling stupid. If you come
> > back with a keeper-photograph, most certainly you won't.
> >
> I've certainly been as close to an edge as that for photos. My all time
> foolishness was this shot where I gave the camera to my ex-wife and
> asked her to take my picture
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Havasu/pages/Havasu04.htm>.
>
> Later I learned that what I was standing on, hanging right over a falls
> of about 250 ft., was not rock, but dried minerals from spray. And they
> break off and fall every so often... Here's the fall in perspective
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Havasu/pages/Havasu08.htm>.
>
> When I first saw this shot again, after many years, I felt the fear I
> don't remember feeling then. WHAT WAS I THINKING?
>
> Funny how, the less life left ahead, the more cautious one may become
> about losing it. Maybe I'll go back when I'm 97 and try again. :-)
>
> Moose
The readiness is all, as Hamlet says. Nice shots!
Joel W.
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