Most remote/dangerous place you've photographed?

[David Karp]

Here are a couple of sites with photos taken by Mr. Hurley:


http://www.shackleton-endurance.com/images.html


http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/

I wonder if he complained about the size of his focus knobs, etc.

[Ralph Barker]

Dave - thanks for the excellent Hurley/Endurance links. Previously, I was pretty sure about being a wimp, but now I'm totally convinced. ;-)

[tim atherton]

Simon Norfolk:


http://www.growbag.com/photographers/simonnorfolk/afghanistan/index.asp


http://www.photonet.org.uk/programme/citibank/citibank03/norfolk.html


http://www.photoeye.com/templates/mShowDetailsbycat.cfm?Catalog=ZC255

Personally - most remote? Probably on Banks Island in the High Arctic

[QT Luong]

Most remote: Gates of the Arctic National Park: required flying a commuter plane to a community that cannot be reached by road, and from there hiring a floatplane for drop off / pick-up and then backpacking a couple of days.
Not particularly dangerous, unless you hurt yourself or had a close grizzly encounter.

[Neal Shields]

This is the rim of an active volcano on Ambrum Island in Vanuatu. But I didn't pack a 4x5 and tripod up there. Unfortunately after hikeing for 4 hours there was so much smoke in the cone that there really wasn't anything worth photographing.

The volcano rains ash continiously at the rate of about 1" per hour, so the fact that the large white rocks aren't covered up shows how dumb it was of me to be there.

[Neal Shields]

Sorry about posting the whole picture, it was supposed to be a link. I guess I need to study HTMLs some more.

[Dan Fromm]

Most remote?

A toss-up between Minchana, Peru and ~ 150 KM NW of Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay. Not quite to Estancia La Patria. The last time I went out that way, I drove out from Filadelfia. In Filadelfia I met the Paraguayan journalist Roque Gonzalez Vera, who was escorting a film crew from Spanish TV. They were working on a series about places that no one ever visited. So even Filadelfia must be pretty remote.

Cheers,

Dan

[John Kasaian]

About 14,900' ASL right over the summit of Mt. Shasta in California. I can't wait to get a shot of Denali or Citlaltepetl!

[Bernard Languillier]

As far as I am concerned, I would say that the place where I shot that FELT most remote were the Walls of Jerusalem in Tasmania during a fall snow storm this May.

As far as dangerous places are concerned, probably some exposed ridges in the Japanese Northern Alps in very windy days.

In terms of feeling of unsecurity, probably some suburbs of Kingston Jamaica a few years back (but we had no problem at all actually).

Best regards,
Bernard

[jnantz]

30 stories + up on the HVAC housing of a skyscraper in boston to shoot an "aerial view" of the last gasholder in the area ...
300 feet up on the rim of a quarry that was soon to be filled by the "big dig" ( attached to a deadman for most of the shoot in case the rim collapsed i would only have dropped and lost the camera ) ...