Quick Dispatch: New Heights

My work with IBEW 569 takes me to some fun places. I love seeing these talented members electrify all corners of San Diego & Imperial Counties. Great big buildings going up, coming down, or being updated to meet the needs of tomorrow. Getting around in those really big structures (hopefully) means elevators. On less fortunate times, it means stairs. Sometimes lots of them.

But if you ride your luck long enough, sometimes you get hoisted up high in a boom lift.

A camera harness, safety harness, three cameras, five lenses, yours truly and the San Diego Sports Arena. (photo courtesy Jennifer Wilson)

The change of perspective had me downright giddy to start making photos.

courtesy Jennifer Wilson

Most photographers enter this world with dreams of making images akin to those of icons they revere. For me, one of those legends is Joe McNally, who has constantly used his encyclopedic knowledge of light and composition to make images in the least likely of places. Like helicopters… and The Empire State Building… and airplanes. Admittedly, I was much closer to the ground than him in any of these instances… but getting up there helped me feel closer to the lofty heights of one of the greats. (if you’ll pardon the pun).

More on this to come!