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Picture-A-Week 2017 - Week 41


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I, like many, suffer from a moderate case of acrophobia. It’s sort of selective and I can look out the window of a tall building or an airplane without a qualm. Tall ladders where a fall would likely injure me give me pause but once I get on with the task that required the ladder, I’m fine. This week, a company event gave me the opportunity to visit The Ledge which is on the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower in Chicago. It turns out that standing on a glass balcony and looking 1,353 straight down between my feet will deliver a full-blown case of the heebie-jeebies to even a moderate acrophobic. If it hadn’t been an awesome photo-op, I would have skipped it.

 

Facing Fears

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Dave

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I, l. If it hadn’t been an awesome photo-op, I would have skipped it.

 

Facing Fears

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Dave

 

The TV tower in Shanghai also have glass floors - think it was only 86 stories up - great photo-op of my wife and my son.

 

I opted not to opt!

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I've done a glass floors- but never one that sticks out from the side of the building like that - the one in the CN Tower is pretty trippy!

 

Some more weekend birding and wildlife shooting with the A6300 and FE100-400mm lens, with and without teleconverter - lots of life in the wetlands this fall:

 

A red-shouldered hawk blasting by in the sky:

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A lovely black-throated blue warbler, sampling some red berries:

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A basilisk lizard up on a lookout stump in the shadowy forest:

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An osprey flying by with a fish for dinner:

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A slightly less happy osprey - caught in a complete downpour, just sitting on a branch waiting for it to end:

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