Getting High with Joe McNally
Cliff Plumlee says:
As always an entertaining read, and be sure to check it out to see the shots he got of the gargoyles at the top of the Chrysler building.
Amplify’d from www.joemcnally.com
Summertime, officially. Right here in NYC. This time of year comes round, and I love going to Manhattan again, enjoying the late light, and the kinda clear skies of May.
It was about this time of year I shot this…..
105 stories up on the Empire State Building, the true grand dame of all buildings.
I have always loved climbing around up there.
Had the bright idea of putting a different twist on changing a light bulb
I’ll take a picture of them changing the bulb at the top of the Empire State. What could go wrong? Well, lots
I was oh, 15 feet shy of it, the light shut off. I mean I’m hanging there in my harness, and the bulb’s dead
and there I am, wearing the only light in the joint, my headlamp
Next up, the north tower of the World Trade Center
I had a belt and a rope, and, well, not much in the way of brains.
a long time ago, in the middle 80’s, on assignment for Geo magazine to shoot a story on gargoyles, I went up the Chrysler.
There’s that damn “safety” belt again.Read more at www.joemcnally.com
