Your most dangerous togging situation?

Insisting a tripod was required fror the Aonach Eagach.
 
The stupid photos I took were at the wales GB rally a few years ago. Started off up the banking on the inside of a bend not bad over head photos, I then moved down the bank to get a little closer but it was pretty steep and didn't really want to fall in the path of any of the cars so went to the other side of the track now on the outside of the bend and found a hole at the side of the track I could stand in and see over the top.

Miles better view
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Unfortunatly it was only after I realised how stupid I had been, outside of a bend and all the private cars flying past at stupid speeds considering it was just after a bend so many of them were getting the back end out still at the place I was and I was getting covered in the road they were sending up in the air.
 
mid_gen said:
Probably on Safari in the Kruger in SA.

Was sat in the passenger seat of the land rover, one of those one with no roof, and all the doors removed. Startled a group of antelope which dashed across in front of us and from nowhere a lioness leapt out and took one down.

Lioness sat down about 5 metres from the left side of the car, chomping through this gazelle, face now matted with blood. Then I caught it's eye and it did that thing domestic cats do before they attack the dog. Folded it's ears back, started flicking it's tail, and started snarling. Nothing between me and it but a handy step up into the passenger seat.

Driver just calmly said "ok I think we should back off a little"....as I was filling my pants, scared the hell out of me having a wild (****ed off) animal that close looking into my eyes.
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And where was your camera during all this may I ask? :lol:
 
Moto cross last year was one

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er..no cropping required??

and this one in New York, took it as traffic was coming both ways

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Richard Peters said:
If this guy was a member, he might be in the lead.
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What a professional. Inches from death and the first thing he does is start shooting. :lol:

Can't think of any off hand but there are probably a few. I'm a bit of a risk taker yet generally analyse the risk before doing it. :p

One example would be along the lines of climbing up an almost vertical cliff in the Pyrenees using a geological hammer as a makeshift "ice" axe to see where a fossil may have come from. Got to the top and and realised I was around 100m up and going to have to climb back down. That was "interesting"... My camera stayed firmly in my bag as I was concentrating more on whether the hammer would hold in a few cracks...:lol:
 
Some absolutely crackng stories...

My go... Nothing to impressive in comparison to some here.

I was out last week following some deer... They walked through a field And into a neighbouring field by sneaking under some barbed wired fence. So... Really wanting the shot, I followed... However they went under and I tried to go over... I slipped and caught my go-nads. Ouch. Nothing serious, a few plucks in my shorts and a bit of sitting down was required... And consequently the deers were (strangely) spooked by my loud cursing.

Lesson learnt. Never climb over a barbed wired fence while holding a 450d attached to a 400mm while wearing wellington boots.lol.
 
Sarin said:
I got cut off by the tide the other day while i was taking some phots in a cove. Looked around and the tides come in. Now being a bloke, there's no way i'm gonna phone the coast guard so scaling the vertical cliff it was! Half way up i stop to look around and see how far i've got and realise that there was a phot opportunity to be had. Now bearing in mind that the cliff is near vertical and i'm stood on a ledge leaning against the wall i realised that there were issues with getting my camera out of my bag. Well i adapted and overcame and everything was tip top until a bit of overbalancing sent me on route to the pointy rocks 50m below. So there i am camera in one hand, the other grasping on for dear life. For a moment i thought the camera was going to have to be ditched. Anyway i recovered, put the camera away, got to the top and gave myself a good talking to! I live to shoot another day :)
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that's scary! I really want to see this photo now!
 
in Nottingham city centre taking some photos of the town hall, a person cycles by me and is just staring at me.. he cycles about 20 metres away and then turns his bike side on and is just watching me.

lets just say he was a very unsavoury looking character and was sure he was just trying to figure out if he could do a snatch and grab.

I put the camera in my bag, and then walked straight to my bus stop, which luckily was only about 20 metres too..
 
I've taken photos in central London, which if you believe the police and security guards is an absolute hotbed of terrorism. I don't know how I am still alive.
 
foz said:
in Nottingham city centre taking some photos of the town hall, a person cycles by me and is just staring at me.. he cycles about 20 metres away and then turns his bike side on and is just watching me.

lets just say he was a very unsavoury looking character and was sure he was just trying to figure out if he could do a snatch and grab.

I put the camera in my bag, and then walked straight to my bus stop, which luckily was only about 20 metres too..
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Yep, sounds like the Nottingham I know ;)
 
G20 protests last year in London. I've done 3 years worth of protests and last years had the strongest policing I've ever seen. Was not pleasant for any of us.
 
Years ago had a rig inside the car - then rolled it :( never do car rigs again lol
 
Not really been in danger whilst togging, the closest I've come to mild peril is having a monobloc fall on my head :D
 
Early morning at the Dunlop Chicane at Le Mans 2009. We were stood right behind the catch fencing, beyond which was a small gravel trap with marshalls in and then the armco.

We were just setting up when we heard an almighty bang and instinctively ducked and covered, feeling small bits of debris raining down on us. It was Benoit Treluyer in the number 17 Peugeot having one of the biggest crashes in recent Le Mans history. His car literally bounced along the top of the armco, took out the marshalls' gantry and came to rest with the safety cell, engine and one wheel attached - nothing else.

Luckily the driver was ok but they took their time extracting him. As for us, we quickly realised that, had the car come in only a foot or two higher, it'd have cleared the armco completely and gone straight into the catch fencing, which we were literally six inches behind. We'd have been killed for sure. Rather sobering and I take the "motorsport is dangerous" line on the back of tickets a bit more seriously now :)

The only known footage of the crash - not very good but gives you some idea of the scale of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6upFvKLkDw
 
Well you can just see my 300 lens center bottom of this picture.. I am am under the footy fans just behind the steward crushed on floor..

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I was shooting the birds of prey show at Warwick castle and noticed the birds flew off to a second handler far away, so for the second show I popped down to where he was and chatted to him about getting shots as the birds flew in.

"No problem, stay behind me, slightly to one side and you should get great shots"

The bird wasn't in on the deal though, it decided to go for my lens instead

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Vertigo1 said:
Early morning at the Dunlop Chicane at Le Mans 2009. We were stood right behind the catch fencing, beyond which was a small gravel trap with marshalls in and then the armco.

We were just setting up when we heard an almighty bang and instinctively ducked and covered, feeling small bits of debris raining down on us. It was Benoit Treluyer in the number 17 Peugeot having one of the biggest crashes in recent Le Mans history. His car literally bounced along the top of the armco, took out the marshalls' gantry and came to rest with the safety cell, engine and one wheel attached - nothing else.

Luckily the driver was ok but they took their time extracting him. As for us, we quickly realised that, had the car come in only a foot or two higher, it'd have cleared the armco completely and gone straight into the catch fencing, which we were literally six inches behind. We'd have been killed for sure. Rather sobering and I take the "motorsport is dangerous" line on the back of tickets a bit more seriously now :)

The only known footage of the crash - not very good but gives you some idea of the scale of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6upFvKLkDw
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first time i've seen the crash.. it sure was a big one! (btw, its the Esses not Dunlop Chicane).
Funnily enough i was there when almost the same crash happened this year. Nothing like as scary as that one though!
 
Most of the time, gravel traps and run off areas do their job. After that the Armco and tyre wall is there as a final barrier between you and a car. When do you run away? The wooden posts holding the armco up broke and the barriers were pushed back at a jaunty angle. The car required pulling out from the tyre barrier.

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Byker28i said:
The bird wasn't in on the deal though, it decided to go for my lens instead
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Why do animals always seem to do that? I've had a King Cobra attack the end of a lens before now and leave venom on the UV filter.
 
I used to do this three times a week while a multi story car park was being built. I could see the horizon over the castle, the highest point in Nottingham.

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I'd probably have to update my most dangerous togging situation from, catching the go-nads on barbed wire to photographing on "mad friday" at le mans this year... People doing burn outs in bloody fast cars on a very narrow bit of road!

This was the closest I got on camera... taken at 47mm. However I had got alot closer... to close on one specific occasion!

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foz said:
in Nottingham city centre taking some photos of the town hall, a person cycles by me and is just staring at me.. he cycles about 20 metres away and then turns his bike side on and is just watching me.

lets just say he was a very unsavoury looking character and was sure he was just trying to figure out if he could do a snatch and grab.

I put the camera in my bag, and then walked straight to my bus stop, which luckily was only about 20 metres too..
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I'm in Nottingham too. Your lucky to still have your camera mate.
 
During the war in Kosovo I was sent to photograph the aid convoys.
A really helpful charity worker who escorted told us the previous lorry that went to the refugee camp was ambushed by the Mafia, the load stolen and the driver beaten up. (Most of the aid was going straight to the Mafia, nice little earner for them.)
Must say it's the most stressful 2 hours I've ever spent, think they would have been disappointed had they got hold of my NC2000 though.

Spilling a glass of water over Frankie Dettori's cream suit.

Few incidents outside court.
 
Either taking a photo the day that i got my film canon slr and rushing up to beachy head in eastbourne. I got the the edge to see what sort of shot i could get of the cliff/sea/rocks, picked my moment and leaned over as much as i felt was safe and having a gust of wind blow me off balance. I quickly retreated to the pub to calm my nerves.

The next is knelt next to the bottom of a table top jump getting the shots of motocross. the bikes were landing no more than a foot next to me. I would pop my head over the top of the jump so the riders knew i was there but i think that spurred them on to get even closer.

Both moments would never faze me to get into positions to get a better shot that someone wouldn't necessarily go to.
 
Shooting birds at the Zambesi Sun Hotel near Victoria Falls in the hotel gardens. Walking by the side of a small lake, my friend Didi about 3m in front of me. Suddenly a croc lunged out from the reeds towards Didi. Somehow she ran around it and passed me at around Mach 2.

Didi relates the tale here.
 
Taken a step back into nothingness before. Thought I was going to step back onto a solid floor, but alas, it was sludge suspended in sludge, suspended in air. Up five stories.
 
a lot of my excursions are dangerous in one way or another either for me or the camera, as a lot of my photography is urbex related.
 
Dislocated shoulder when the horse running towards me at a point to point was closer to me than he appeared through my viewfinder....
 
trencheel303 said:
a lot of my excursions are dangerous in one way or another either for me or the camera, as a lot of my photography is urbex related.
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The danger of somebody catching you on their property you mean? :)
 
Telling anyone on here they are not equipped to shoot a wedding! ;)

or

17 floors up the outside of a building :)
 
Kaouthia said:
The danger of somebody catching you on their property you mean? :)
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lots of dangers in urbex - dodgy floors/ceilings and asbestos, among many others.
 
With or without a camera, there's lots of dangers in doing things without permission and breaking laws. :)
 
itsdavedotnet said:
lots of dangers in urbex - dodgy floors/ceilings and asbestos, among many others.
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ladders, roofs, security cameras, security guards, etc etc...

For the camera there is dust and just general crap that can get into it, and for the humans there are the physical risks, and being caught by security if you are unfortunate enough to have that happen. But... as long as you don't break in or break anything inside (general urbex rule is exactly that, take nothing but photographs leave nothing but footprints) then they can't do anything but send you off site with a warning, as trespass isn't a criminal offense either its civil.

Not saying anyone has to agree with me but those are the facts here in Scotland at least.
 
Runcon - Widnes bridge at night on the Widnes side, I'm sure one of the kids hanging-out were I parked my car had a gun and was showing his mates.
 
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