Painful photographs

[steevdavis62]

Dont worry suze, this is forum is a great place to get compliments. keep taking nice photos and soon you won't know what to do with yourself

[Liquid Cheese]

All those stories were rather intense, particularly the ones in the mountains. I'm terrified of heights.

[softcell72]

My computer is just back up from a reformat so this is the only picture that I can access right now and don't have the original to upload to imageshack or other right now.

I was actually hanging out on a tree branch to get this shot, Snoqualmie Falls in Washington state. they have a fenced off area where you are supposed to stay and view etc but alot of people do actually climb down to the actual falls inself(I was one of them) however to get this one I climbed from the railing out onto a tree branch that hung over. There was really no other way to do it just due the the fact that if I had stayed on the rail there would have been people in the way and if I had climed down it would have been harder to show the actual size of the falls in perspective to the person standing there.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Sita 900

are those ants? they aren't nasty!! Haha my boyfriend and I have pet ants in an ant farm! B) Ants are hard to photograph... I've tried before, good job!

its blurry. you couldn't even tell if they were ants. how is that a good job? thanks. maybe i am missing something.

[Suze]

Originally Posted by softcell72

I was actually hanging out on a tree branch to get this shot, Snoqualmie Falls in Washington state. they have a fenced off area where you are supposed to stay and view etc but alot of people do actually climb down to the actual falls inself(I was one of them) however to get this one I climbed from the railing out onto a tree branch that hung over. There was really no other way to do it just due the the fact that if I had stayed on the rail there would have been people in the way and if I had climed down it would have been harder to show the actual size of the falls in perspective to the person standing there.

Awsome photo! The person in it really does make the picture. I never would have dreamed the falls were so big otherwise.
Suze

[WooD]

Not as frightening as bee's or ants, but this little dude could put a hurting on ya.

I did have a run in with fire ants once. I had just moved to Florida, and had no idea what a fire ant was. I rented an old house when I first moved here, and the drive way was done in tile. I was changing the oil in my bike, and needed to lay on the ground to get the oil drain out. I noticed there were a few ants there between the tiles, but thought nothing of it. Needless to say when you lay on a fire ant mound hundreds/thousands come out in a big hurry. They were in my shirt, down my pants...........Got nailed a few dozen times before I could get out of my cloths. Glad nobody had a camera around.

[Bobscaught]

I was doing a story on mountain climbing for a local TV station before I realized the lengths I'd have to go through. In order to get a good angle I had to also repel down to where my subject was. Only catch was that I had to wear the repelling gear backwards. Being a guy that was very painful on my...well you get the idea!

[klew]

I was snorkeling over a shallow reef between two small motus (islands) off Moorea when a fish bit me twice on the palm of my hand and once on the leg. It was a parrotfish, who have hard beaks to scrape coral off rocks for food, so it hurt. I wonder if I got too close to its home. I was also taking pictures with an underwater disposable camera (no scanner, so no fish pic), but I took a picture of my hand when I got back to the hut (what's that, a good half-inch?).

[mediaphile]

i'm not sure if this counts, but this was a painful photograph for me to take:



grandma's second hernia surgery. she's getting up there in age, so it was scary at the time, but everything went fine in the end. i'm not sure if this thread was about photographs that were literally painful to take, so i may have missed the mark here.

[jiminyClickit]

mediaphile, Welcome

Half the fun is seeing how different people interprete differently. This would have been painful for me to take, yes.