Most dangerous place you have gone with a camera?

bass...@gmail.com

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Mar 21, 2006, 12:14:30 PM3/21/06

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Where is the most dangerous place you have gone with a camera? This guy
is crazy!
http://digg.com/links/Interesting_pictures_of_Ghetto_s

How far would you go? wow

Steve

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Mar 21, 2006, 12:28:42 PM3/21/06

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Waiting for someone else to confirm this isn't spam...
I've been in the middle of Storrow Drive, with cars going by at 60 MPH.
I've jumped out into the middle of MA 2 for a photo of an overhead
sign, and stood in the gores of many other roads. I've leaned out over
a bridge with one hand on the railing and the other over open water.

--
Steve Alpert
MIT - B.S. (Eng.) '05, M.S. (Transp.) '06
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Ji...@aol.com

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Mar 21, 2006, 1:12:01 PM3/21/06

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In 1998 I parked on the shoulder of the elevated ramp from CT-8 South
to I-84 East in Waterbury CT, ran across 3 lanes of I-84, Stood at the
guardrail and shot a few pics of the interchange below...what was I
thinking?

Shooting while driving over the old Grace Memorial Bridge in Charleston
SC in an oversiized SUV was bit harrowing as well.

Jim K. Georges

Carl Rogers

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Mar 21, 2006, 2:26:30 PM3/21/06

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<bass...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1142961270.5...@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...

For me, it has to be the British-Columbia-Alberta border... With no
shoulder available on the side of the road (due to snow), I literally
stopped the vehicle on TransCanada 1 to snap this photo:
http://hwy-shields.calrog.com/tc-1_4.html

The camera used for it allowed one (or two) second exposures. It took
several attempts (over a 30 second period) for the French translation to
become semi-readable. As luck had it, a large heap of snow covered the
words " Bienvenue", "à" and " Colombie" on the sign.

For health-hazard reasons, the Mount Blanc Tunnel
(http://hwy-shields.calrog.com/it-t1_4.html) is my runner-up. The exhaust
fumes inside were pretty strong! The location of this shot is not terribly
far from the French border.

Cheers,

Carl Rogers
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Carl Rogers

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Mar 21, 2006, 2:37:52 PM3/21/06

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"Carl Rogers" <carl...@DELETETHIS.calrog.com> wrote in message
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> The camera used for it allowed one (or two) second exposures. It took
> several attempts (over a 30 second period) for the French translation to
> become semi-readable. As luck had it, a large heap of snow covered the
> words " Bienvenue", "à" and " Colombie" on the sign.

Slight correction: "Colombie" should read "Columbie".

...Gosh darn it, I almost always misspell British Columbia--regardless of
which language is being used! :-)

Chris Wilson

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Mar 21, 2006, 5:38:12 PM3/21/06

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I've never done anything too drastic except pulling over, getting out,
and taking a picture, but that pales in comparison to Jim running
across IH 84.

Steve

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Mar 21, 2006, 5:55:20 PM3/21/06

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I've run across my fair share of highways. One time I forgot something
in a car dealership and ran across four divided lanes of US 9
(admittedly not a freeway at that point). When my friend's car blew the
back tire, I ran into the left lane at 2 AM to pick out the fragment
(and got flashed by a car well in the distance).

Scott M. Kozel

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Mar 21, 2006, 8:05:11 PM3/21/06

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This one looks dangerous, as it is on the edge of a steep rock cut about
70 feet above the highway, but it really wasn't hazardous at all, as
there was enough of a ledge there to stand on safely.

http://www.pennways.com/I476_INT_OG.jpg
http://www.pennways.com/I476_PA.html

--
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Philadelphia and Delaware Valley http://www.pennways.com

Sherman L. Cahal

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Mar 22, 2006, 2:32:06 AM3/22/06

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Road related: Going to the ghetto of Cincinnati (Over-the-Rhrine) to
photograph Vine Street for an urban renewal team.

Non-road related: Photographing abandonments in Camden, NJ. Did I
mention Camden is the worst city for crime in the US?

--
Sherman Cahal
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armourereric

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Mar 22, 2006, 2:37:00 AM3/22/06

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Unplanned danger, non-road related.........

I was taking numerous pictures of the President's departure from the
convention..........

Standing about 8 feet behind John Hinkley when he opened fire. It was
a week after my 17th birthday. My dad was a delegate at the
Carpenter's convention.

Eric

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Mar 22, 2006, 9:54:29 AM3/22/06

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Speaking of Camden, I pulled off I-676 once to clean my windshield on
the side of some surface street before turning around to shoot the Ben
Franklin Bridge Westbound and I must say I was a bit nervous knowing
the reputation, and I don't "nerve" easily. Driving across US 40 in
downtown Baltimore is also cause to keep a eye out for trouble more
than usual

Sherman L. Cahal

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Mar 22, 2006, 11:03:30 AM3/22/06

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"At the opposite end of the Morgan Quitno crime scale, Camden, New
Jersey ranks as the nation’s most dangerous city for the second
consecutive year. Located across the Delaware river from Philadelphia,
Camden had the highest violent crime, murder and robbery rates among
cities of 75,000 or more population."

Also, see this staggering graph:
http://www.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Newton&s1=MA&c2=Camden&s2=NJ

Baltimore is also a very violent city as well.

Jake Brzeskiewicz

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Mar 22, 2006, 12:49:58 PM3/22/06

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Over a weekend this past fall, I walked out on the
partially-constructed northbound US 53 bridge over the Eau Claire
River. There was nothing but an 18 inch steel girder and 50 feet of
atmosphere between me and the river and nothing but the workman's safty
line for me to hold on to.

I should really post those pictures somewhere along with the others
I've taken in the vacinity of the US 53 freeway project.
But alas, I keep forgetting.

Cameron Kaiser

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Mar 23, 2006, 9:30:02 AM3/23/06

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"Jake Brzeskiewicz" <triplem...@walla.com> writes:

>Over a weekend this past fall, I walked out on the
>partially-constructed northbound US 53 bridge over the Eau Claire
>River. There was nothing but an 18 inch steel girder and 50 feet of
>atmosphere between me and the river and nothing but the workman's safty
>line for me to hold on to.

I've hung off of a few bridge superstructures before, getting pictures. I've
also been blocking traffic on some Los Angeles freeways getting shot(s) as
well. But compared to some here, I think that's small time. :)

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Mar 29, 2006, 11:39:36 AM3/29/06

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Yugoslavia, just as the war broke out, there was burning buses along the
roadside, Serbian planes trying to bomb gas stations, and any thing that
moved. Nice rush.

Hitchhiking through East Germany with an expired Canadian Pasport. Slight
misunderstanding there.