Thanks to Rashid[the founder of qualityjunkyard] who help me understand whats the meaning of passionate  photographer…

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This is a case of photographer photographs photographer.  The following photographs were taken by photographer Hans van de Vorst at the Grand Canyon, Arizona.  The descriptions are his own.  The identity of the photographer in the photos is unknown.

I was simply stunned seeing this guy standing on this solitary rock in the Grand Canyon . The canyon’s depth is 900 meters here. The rock on the right is next to the canyon and safe.
Watching this guy on his thong sandals, with a camera and a tripod I asked myself 3 questions:

1. How did he climb that rock?

2. Why not taking that sunset picture on that rock to the

right, which is perfectly safe.

3. How will he get back?

This is the point of no return.

After the sun set behind the canyon’s horizon he packed his things (having only one hand available) and prepared himself for the jump. This took about 2 minutes. At that point he had the full attention of the crowd.
After that, he jumped on his thong sandals…The canyon’s depth is 900 meters here. Now you can see that the adjacent rock is higher so he tried to land lower, which is quite steep and tried to use his one hand to grab the rock.

We’ve come to the end of this little story. Look carefully at the photographer. He has a camera, a tripod and also a plastic bag, all on his shoulder or in his left hand. Only his right hand is available to grab the rock and the weight of his stuff is a problem.

He lands low on this flip flops both his right hand and right foot slips away…At that moment I take this shot. He pushes his body against the rock. He waits for a few seconds, throws his stuff on the rock, climbs and walks away.

Zigron Inc, arranged a group activity by the name of “Save your eggs”. All the employees were divided into the teams and were assign the task to safely drop the egg from the two story building. Each team were given RS 500/- and 1 hour and 45 minutes of the time frame to plan and make the necessary tools for the safe landing.

The event was on last Wednesday and every body was notified a day before via email. One of my team member shehzad (a.k.a Thakur) sent an email to our team, showing great excitement and wanted to know what other team member had in their mind. Our team was very unfortunate because shehzad did not came due to his illness and I was on the leave a day before and did not knew about the event. The organizer in her initial email missed one employee so the teams were re-structured and also there were too many emails with the same subject, which made little confusion for me initially, but later things went as clear as crystal, thanks to Waqas who explained everything.

As the event started the teams went to different rooms to make the necessary equipment for safe landing of the egg. I went to each time by time to capture the event memories. Teams were notified a day before so every body was well prepared and were successful in completing the task.

here is the slide of the event

Sorry for my absence I was very busy these days, but when ever I got time I will definitely try write.

Here are some of my experiments on smoke, I hope you like it