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Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Gaped, that cliff jump is same picture on Bill Legg's wall. I wish I had jumped that site but I was iced out. Here's a photo that Yuri took of me while we were jumping an antenna.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Here's one of my recent personal favorites. It almost appears the subject is riding a horse, instead of BASE jumping.
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Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
I quite like this pic taken by Ron Luke (even though it makes my bum look big).
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
This was a jump I made last fall outside of Moscow, Russia. Made my way onto the "sunset load". 
Re: [Atle] My favorite BASE picture
Damn nice! Best use of a wide angle lense I think I have ever seen.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
It's my favourite because it took a lot of work to make it happen and it worked out exactly as planned. thanks Mike for the photo!
photo credit - Mike
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Interesting how most of you seem to post pictures of yourselves. Hah. The first picture is unreal though.
Re: [Atle] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
One of my favorites from this year.
Re: [MB38] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
What lens/camera?
Nikon D200 and Nikon 10,5mm Fisheye.
...and another favorite.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
My favorite from the first day I ever jumped. Edited: Crwper - as good as the missionary man can look this is actually DW so don't get your panties in a tizzle:)
My favorite BASE picture
I can have a favorite too. So far is this one, he is the same guy as in geezangen's pic.... And I dont remember where I got it from.
Re: [yeyo] My favorite BASE picture
i got mine from my helmetcamera but O. spreads his pics all around the world
Re: My favorite BASE picture
Well, definitely not as cool as the ones posted here but this was my 4th (1st hand held) jump. BTW, I’m no BASE jumper as I did only 5 bridge jumps.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
I haven't taken many but these are a couple of my favourites. Gus
Re: [Ronaldo] My favorite BASE picture
This was my 100th base jump...The Pick... way more scary to climb out onto than to jump off of Cya
Sky
Re: [aidclimber] My favorite BASE picture
Same pic as above, but renamed so it will open as a JPEG. Michael
Re: [aidclimber] My favorite BASE picture
ThePick100.jpg color corrected. Great pics!
I don't have any good ones of me. I'm always on the other side of the camera.
Have Fun!
Baz
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Got to ask you Gaper:is that the Ha??er in Europe? Every time I go past that I want to make the time to go & jump it but haven't, so far.
I really like that "Fungus" pic that Ikea sold as a poster. I like Jon Stark's cave pic. Atle's fantastic pics are something else- great photography, wonderful colour.
My favourite "me" pic is attached: our popular 300 foot high seaside spot (see Will's pic above).
Not the best definition/colour/location pic here but my favourite, none the less. Taken by my (shaking at the edge of the prime UK suicide spot, never seen a BASE jump before) brother.
Re: [TomAiello] My favorite BASE picture
Tom, That sure is a lotta extra bridle. "Shaking head” that’s not too safe!
Adorable dude!
Coco
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
This one is my favorite. It's hanging on the wall in my office. It's just a scenic shot, nobody's in it. But everytime I look at it and remember back on that day I start grinning like an idiot. Chris Bazil takes bad ass pictures.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
The first one is a favourite of me jumping, while the second one is a favourite that I took myself of base915...
Re: [fastpete] My favorite BASE picture
Hi buddy! The winter antenna pic is one of the best I seen ... commitment!
PerFlare
Ps
Tom, that's funny!
Re: [leroydb] My favorite BASE picture
PerFläre, come here in winter to meet the Santa and i show you the place...
Re: [Bazair2air] My favorite BASE picture
> ThePick100.jpg color corrected One question out of curiosity.....
What on earth is the exit point? Which type of object is that?
Looks like a full-of-rust metal platform protruding out of a A/=/whatever.
Re: [980] My favorite BASE picture
Nope, sorry. That's not Jimmy. However, you are correct. The left image is H rotated to flow with the set.
Have Fun!
Baz
Re: [Bazair2air] My favorite BASE picture
watchoo talkin' about willis? I knows what Clint looks like!
Re: [crwper] My favorite BASE picture
Well, so many to choose from........... First one is my fav shot I took of Michael (Crwper) SL from 140 ft pillar. Some might remember it from an ad I did for BR a few years back
2nd shot is my fav shot of Cybernetic Cooper unit #2 (Jason) on a local "E"
Sooo many cool shots over the years............
Re: [980] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
holy lick
Clint's going left hand handheld!
Some old school jumpers used to jump with the pilot chute in either their right or left hand, depending on the exit points. No going stowed is the preferred option. Moe Villetto used to have a velcro tab on each side of his velcro rig for this scenario.
Re:My favorite BASE picture
Had to do round 2. First one is my fav shot taken by someone else with my camera. Jason shot it, Michael is in it.
2nd is one of me I like, nice shooting Michael.
And lastly...one of my favourite shots I took of 587
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Just because of the madness really - S/L from a 245' bridge over water, backlooping with a paradactyl in the rig. That was 1982 for you!
Al
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
The one I prefer taken by my friend Pierre "magoo" Mayence during our FJC with Martin Tilley and Blake
Re: [base689] My favorite BASE picture
The Pick is a 400 foot cliff...the exit point is a slab of rock that stick out about 6 feet from the wall cya Sky
Re: [fastpete] My favorite BASE picture
Hell, I was in Rovaniemi not long ago. Had no idea there'd be BASE jumpers that far north though!!! But how do you jump objects during the summer without burning the site??? 24-hours of daylight can be a real bitch
Re: [inzite] My favorite BASE picture
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But how do you jump objects during the summer without burning the site??? 24-hours of daylight can be a real bitch
The place is so remote that only reindeers and santa sees you huckin' it and santa is cool with BASE. :)
Re: [maretus] My favorite BASE picture
That's exactly the thing...Rovaniemi is boring!!! I was there last year in late June. I figured I'd hang out in the city all night and enjoy the midnight sun. After walking around the city for two hours, I was so damned bored that I caught the 9pm train to Helsinki!!! My God...there's nothing to do there. The McDonald's is the coolest place in town.
Re: [aj4218] My favorite BASE picture
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Just because of the madness really - S/L from a 245' bridge over water, backlooping with a paradactyl in the rig.
That was 1982 for you!
Al
Stylin'!!! My favourite on this tread so far!
Anyone with a copy of Hoover's infamous two-way with his 9 year old son?
CJ =)
Re: [subterminal] My favorite BASE picture
I have that photo at home. Someone once asked Hoover how long it took the pilot chute to pull the canopy out... His response was "throw the pilot chute and wait 6 to 8 weeks for delivery!"
Re: [inzite] My favorite BASE picture
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That's exactly the thing...Rovaniemi is boring!!! I was there last year in late June. I figured I'd hang out in the city all night and enjoy the midnight sun.
After walking around the city for two hours, I was so damned bored that I caught the 9pm train to Helsinki!!! My God...there's nothing to do there. The McDonald's is the coolest place in town.
you should have had call me....we have lots of nice stuff here...I can show you some next time...
and as Maretus told us, Santa is BASEfriendly man, so if he sees you hugging some antenna its ok, he might join you.
I think its really nice to jump these sites when its midnight sun, you can jump the whole night like it was daytime and no one bothers you ever.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Dude, you need to label those kind of pictures as "Not Safe For Work" or something, so that people don't open them at the office, or when their kids are around, or something like that. Thanks!
Re: [TomAiello] My favorite BASE picture
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or when their kids are around,
Yea.....baby's would be
like.."MAMAAAAAAAA"
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
From one of my best jumps, and deffinity best project toghether with Johnny B!
Re: [434] My favorite BASE picture
This is also from one of my best jumps! Good memories from good projects that takes time, and effort to complete!
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Yo ! I took these over the years:
http://maxf.net/~outrager/sa21.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/1198-2.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/pp3.jpg
http://maxf.net/.../images/IMG_0348.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/02jan05.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/sa01-23.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/sh12s.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/11-12.jpg
Some others i really like:
http://maxf.net/~outrager/3way4.jpg
http://www.basejump.ru/.../IMG_4927_resize.JPG
http://www.basejump.ru/.../IMG_5012_resize.JPG
http://maxf.net/~outrager/sa28.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/95-2.jpg
http://maxf.net/...images/rg2004-01.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/01n13.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/ta1.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/i99-1.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/pp16.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/ss1.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/1ttower.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/974-1.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/y2-50.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/e24.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/11-22.jpg
http://maxf.net/~outrager/combat.jpg
bsbd!
Yuri.
Re: My favorite BASE picture
One more vote for Xomato's pics. I have never seen anything that could be so close to the pics in my own mind. http://xomato.livejournal.com/
Re: [base935] My favorite BASE picture
I remember seeing that pic in your livingroom. I'm back in town by the way I have a bit of a twisted ankle but we should go scout-n-flick something soon
I don't have many pics of me jumping but here is one my British mate Ron took of me. That first step is a big one
Be Safe
-Bill
Re: [basehoundsam] My favorite BASE picture
One of my favorites. Beware of the crosswind 
Photo:BASE 700
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
Say it ain't so, Smoky
I like the one signed by Eric Ryde!
Re: [SullyFlyer] My favorite BASE picture
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In reply to:
Say it ain't so, Smoky
I like the one signed by Eric Ryde!
The autographed version is now framed, and hanging on the wall in my BASEment.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Here's one I took of some Cape Town buddies Al Mc Queen and Rob Smallie jumping our favorite 'E'. Still think the one by Jay Epstein Ramirez is the best so far.
poc
Re: [Skin] My favorite BASE picture
Here's a picture of my first E. Hope you like it. That one also framed and hanging on the wall of your BASEment?
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
So Tom A. Would you PCA your baby off the bridge? That is too cute. Only you would have something like that!
DBR
Re: [geezangen] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
i got mine from my helmetcamera
but O. spreads his pics all around the world
This time it was not your amazing shot ;-)
That was taken from my small V570 Kodak with wide lens taken by Uros from Slovenia when i jump Cam&$&#.
Hehehehe...
PS. Gee... wait for you in Poland...
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
snowboard base... the only part of the jump that was in control.
Re: [herminiocordido] My favorite BASE picture
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Sorry guys, i said B for Bridge.... my Spanish is in the way
I guess that makes you a BABE jumper then
Re: [Nick.B] My favorite BASE picture
Hello, After seeing Nick . B's shot,
it reminded me that this
is my recent favorite.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
"310footer" was taken of me (by Matt Wimer) before I wore body armor; I now reccomend wearing full body armor if possible. I took the pictures "freefall" and "Poised in the steel".
Re: [badenhop] My favorite BASE picture
second that.. intense photo that conveys the entire idea.. pro hwo shot that? xomato?
[Shawndiver] The Old School Bridge
Hello, Thanks for that,
I have a picture of me
dayblazing that bridge, 1997.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Some great pics in this thread. Here's an old one, my friend Trevor Yates off a UK A in '84.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Oh my God. It's the original man in black himself : John Hoover, BASE #95. "allow 6 to 8 weeks for parachute arrival"
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Some more pics by Xomato. http://xomato.livejournal.com/
Is BASE beautiful?
Oh, yeah!
Enjoy!
Re: [Lee846] My favorite BASE picture
here is my new fave BASE picture, man I love when she is the base... oh ya here is a montage pic of an A jump, its ok too.
Re: [leroydb] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
here is my new fave BASE picture, man I love when she is the base...
all i can do is to agree -- it's perfect, but the picture should be bigger and it's quality should be higher.
Re: [fastpete] My favorite BASE picture
I have others, clearer and closer, but she wont let me post them... Be happy you see these
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Anyone have a pic of the statue of christ being jumped? Please PM... v/r
Billy
Re: [woodpecker] My favorite BASE picture
Picture of Mexican (one Swiss/Mexican) 4way gainer exit in Kjerag.
Re: [TomDancs] My favorite BASE picture
Hey Tom- Did you get the rights from the photographer to release this picture to the world?
Re: [TVHigley] My favorite BASE picture
don't need it as long I make no financial gain from it... but I am happy to credit Sonja with taking the awsome shot.
Re: My favorite BASE picture
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don't need it as long I make no financial gain from it
Posting other people's copyrighted pics without permission is wrong.
Re: [base428] My favorite BASE picture
I'm pretty sure they're just messing with each other. Sonja deserves credit too, that's an awesome shot.
Re: [TomDancs] My favorite BASE picture
Hey Tom... You've got to stop using Photoshop to put yourself in pictures. ... Beautiful Pic!!!
Re: [base428] My favorite BASE picture
Nobody asked you Bihatch! We are kidding anyway thats me and Todd in the pic....
T.
Re: [SBCmac] My favorite BASE picture
Your Kung-Fu is weak at best, and your Cantonese sounds like a dog in heat... How dare you offend the name of my family and my house... you will pay with your life roundeye... you think you Bat Dung Style is a match for my Eagle Claw... haaa! I will challenge you with my eyes blindfolded and my hands tied behind my back... Meet me on Thursday at sunset, near the lake, in the alley... we shall see who is a photo-shopper as you put it... haaa! You will learn respect! Pai Mei
Re: [TomDancs] My favorite BASE picture
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Nobody asked you Bihatch! We are kidding anyway thats me and Todd in the pic....
Maybe you guys could play with each other via PM's next time?
Re: [TomDancs] My favorite BASE picture
Fu*k you guys... I click through a shite load of cool pics... and then, my girly walks into the room just as i'm clicking open a picture of some chicks ass... It's NSFG I'm worried about, not that work shit. -smd7
Re: [monkey1031] My favorite BASE picture
My 1st E jump...Thanks to the supercool crew who took me along, loaned me a rig for this jump and then sent me this pic.
Re: [mikey348] My favorite BASE picture
A personal favorite site... Rob, you still have to head down there!
Re: [outrager] My favorite BASE picture
oh man... come on... that opening is CLEARLY due to Body position.. lol joking
Re: [busaunit] My favorite BASE picture
Well, my fav of only 5 base pics. One of my first jumps! http://img83.imageshack.us/...9223/specialklp3.jpg
Cheers to the dude that took it...for the life of me i can't remember your name at the time of posting!
-----> Alex! Just remembered!
Re: [brabzzz] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
Well, my fav of only 5 base pics. One of my first jumps!
http://img83.imageshack.us/...9223/specialklp3.jpg
Cheers to the dude that took it...for the life of me i can't remember your name at the time of posting!
-----> Alex! Just remembered!
Brilliant picture!!
Kris.
Re: [shropshire] My favorite BASE picture
Here's my favorite (of me). Plus i didn't think there were enough unpacked pics in this thread. Thanks jimmy! late,
RJ$$
Re: [busaunit] My favorite BASE picture
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robbase.jpg
Re: [NickDG] My favorite BASE picture
That's not a BASE picture, that's just two guys standing on top of something... You must wear a rig for it to be called a BASE jump!
Re: [tfelber] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
You must wear a rig for it to be called a BASE jump!
EDIT
I do belive its Ivan who took the chiken shot,the script has been stolen from BASEjumper.org
(thanks Wayne) Scareyourself taken by me on my cellphone
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Photo credits: Overhang - Gary Cunningham
Trev's Exit Pt - Feral
VG - Fast Al
g.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
i took it last night. it is one of my friends leaving the scene
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
A picture of Phil Smith, BASE #1, that he sent out to a number of friends on postcards. A cop is in the foreground. The Lyric Center is in the background on the left and the (previous) Texas Commerce Building is on the right. TCB was the building that allowed the completion of the BASE cycle for the first generation of BASE jumpers.
Re: BASE pictures
This morning a friend of mine sent me a link to a foreign website, Russian maybe, and I saw 8 photos of a guy in a wing suit pulling real low. Don't know the location, jumper or photographer so can't provide any credits. Nonetheless, I thought some of you guys and gals would dig the shots, which pasted into one file for faster viewing.
Re: [GreenMachine] BASE pictures
There are existing threads about those photos in the BASE, Wingsuit and General Skydiving forums.
Re: [Taupo] My favorite BASE picture
High Performance BirdMan sponsored Ingar "Igor" Strand is trying to compete with his norwegian VKB friends on the homemade marked. That picture gives me good memories of all our trips together, as well as his ability to think futuristic.
Re: [dhracer33] My favorite BASE picture
I am 50% sure that this jump is from the same tower you got in the first pics
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
A bunch of new professional pix just got posted here: http://xomato.livejournal.com/
bsbd!
Yuri.
Re: [Mrs.Byrnes] My favorite BASE picture
I feel sorry for Ron, it must be hard having a wife who is ok with him jumping, accompanies him on trips and likes to take loads of photos of him jumping. And she is a biker. No, actually I don't feel sorry for Ron, I hate the bastard.
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
Nice:) None of the pics are in free fall. Does this guy jump at all? If not it's quite a comitment to follow BASErs around.
Re: [Faber] My favorite BASE picture
That's old indeed Faber, since when do you climb so high up that you can go stowed?
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
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That's old indeed Faber, since when do you climb so high up that you can go stowed?
That was probably the deciding jump.
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
i never use bigger PC than 46´and i pack that stowed aswell as i usaly climb whith out the stashbag off that object thats 400ft by the way.
Tim stop posting them fificult words
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Do you have that shot in high res, suitable for desktop picture on computer?
Re: [Skin] My favorite BASE picture
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Here's a picture of my first E. Hope you like it.
Re: My favorite BASE picture
don't know about favorite, just thought i'd share this. flying for the crowd...
Re: [Han-Solo] My favorite BASE picture
Dude, that pic is AMAZING! Any chance you have a hi-res that you could email for my wallpaper? Pretty puhleeeeeeeze?
Re: [Han-Solo] My favorite BASE picture
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don't know about favorite, just thought i'd share this.
flying for the crowd...
Is it photo shop? If not please show us the video!!!
Edit to add:
It must be photo shop...
Re: [Mikki_ZH] My favorite BASE picture
There was a pic from another angle earlier in this thread...
Re: [Mikki_ZH] My favorite BASE picture
Another angle of the flying for the crowd spot from last week. Not as close as the flight in the previous pic, but still a crowd pleaser...
(None of the photos was photoshoped)
Re: [Atle] My favorite BASE picture
Ok, sorry but it looked to good to be true. I wonder what the tourists think when a wingsuit flys by. Probably something like "look, these paragliders are realy fast these days..."
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
I opened my first object a few weeks ago in Eastern WA. PCA 150' vertical wall, '75 talus ~ '225 total.
Named it the Junkyard, after landing amongst cars that had been driven off the cliff.
My favorite BASE picture
My favorites from this summer: http://www.atledahl.com/action/index.html
Mostly BASE, but also some skydiving and paragliding...
Atle
Re: [Atle] My favorite BASE picture
http://www.atledahl.com/...source/_dsc6616.html http://www.atledahl.com/...source/_dsc5726.html
Oh those are good. Those are very good.
Did you use any photoshop type stuff to enhance the colours (greens and blues)?
Re: [jakee] My favorite BASE picture
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Oh those are good. Those are very good.
Did you use any photoshop type stuff to enhance the colours (greens and blues)?
Thank you very much!
No photoshop type stuff, but the camera settings are set at vivid colours.
The only thing I've done in post processing is a little exposure adjustment, and also lighten the shadow details a bit.
Atle
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
This morning, 6 o'clock. 'couz' came up with his dog 'Spencer' and took the pic.
Rob jumping, me filming. Getting loads of pics from this angle but they're always beautiful.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
Awesome pic Beats the hell out of a cup of coffee before work huh?
Re: [Peej] My favorite BASE picture
There is but one thing that beats a BASE jump in the morning. I am in the dog box at the moment (no job and not looking very hard for one...) so BASE is a sweet alternative. Here's another 2 I thought were pretty cool. Kind of before and after pics to the previous post.
Check Rob's shadow on the wall in the second one...
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
Again, very nice!
CT has some sweet, sweet spots.
Is that the mountain overlooking HB, the S*******?
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
Nice pic mate!-brings back nice memories..........hmmmm, think I'm due back that way soon. take care, have fun!
reiner.
Re: [Reiner1] My favorite BASE picture
yup... a little too close for comfort on that one!! this is cliffhuckstable and me (uncle potato head) at a site named... I DONT WANT TO GET BANNED JUST YET in south lake tahoe ca.
Re: [jtholmes] My favorite BASE picture
It's not very high quality (taken from video), but that doesn't mean it's not wicked sweet!
Re: [Lee846] My favorite BASE picture
NICE! Props to the photographer on that shot. Was that off a 'B'?
Re: [crazydave44] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
NICE! Props to the photographer on that shot. Was that off a 'B'?
Nope. Everybody knows that object -- it's our legal antenna 110 meters high.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
What's your "best shot"
Would LOVE for everyone to upload your photos to BLiNC Magazine Photo Gallery and share with the world: http://www.blincmagazine.com/...llery/imageFolio.cgi
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.
Re: [gweeks] My favorite BASE picture
Nice pic! That sure was an awesome jump! Ha, you can see my face on the side.
Coco
Re: [mickknutson] My favorite BASE picture
Mick...so the rumors weren't true....you're still alive!!!!
Re: [base587] My favorite BASE picture
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Mick...so the rumors weren't true....you're still alive!!!!
DJ MICK is still alive, and BLiNC Magazine has never left the air waves!
Get your ASS to BLiNC and POST SOME DAM PICTURES!!!!!!!
;-)
Re: [psychokiwi_base] My favorite BASE picture
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Mick were those photos taken at ASIA SF???
Now that's funny.
Re: [Lee846] My favorite BASE picture
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In reply to:
NICE! Props to the photographer on that shot. Was that off a 'B'?
Nope. Everybody knows that object -- it's our legal antenna 110 meters high.
yeah...really nice A it is...looking forward to come there again...
http://www.pete.fi/videos/Base/Maxims%202%20back%20gainers%20from%20110m.wmv
Re: [Ronaldo] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
BTW, I’m no BASE jumper as I did only 5 bridge jumps.
I.m not a BASE jumper either, still don't have a 'B'...
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
Do you land in the water at that cliff or is there a beach or something? Looks amazing.
Re: [Peej] My favorite BASE picture
Think this one deserves a place in the gallery It kind of catches the moment after landing...
/Johnnyb
Re: [pidge] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
How about this one then JB.......
Re: [gweeks] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.
What gweeks said...
Re: [460] My favorite BASE picture
That's Mike McCarthy in 1988/9, who had previously done the French Tower in '84 and the ESB in '86. There's no acceptable LZ under the underhung side but plenty on the side he chose. Al
Re: [434] No point of return
Dude, would you be willing to email me a higher res version of that pic for my desktop? Please? It's incredible!
Re: [evilivan] My favorite BASE picture
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In reply to:
That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.
What gweeks said...
What they said...
Re: [cpoxon] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
In reply to:
In reply to:
That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.
What gweeks said...
What they said...
Nice. Pictures like that make me giggle and want to go grab my rig.
Re: [gweeks] My favorite BASE picture
One of the few pictures I have with me in it - and therefore by definition absolutely awesome....
Re: My favorite BASE picture
An exelent example of slider-down fun. mix it with the awesome high cliffs posted before and enjoy! Pic taken by Sniff, another super-talented photographer from our base-crew (and she is a basejumper as well
) It's our playground again -- same abandoned Antenna -- legal and still capable of positive emotions and thrill
Re: [leroydb] My favorite BASE picture
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that's an awesome picture. me likey
Glad you like it
Here is a couple more from the same day - this is a cliff over a beach and the fog was all the way up to edge of the cliff; it delayed the jumping initially, but made for beautiful pictures when the jumping started.
Re: [evilivan] My favorite BASE picture
This fog picture looks like you guys are standing at the end of the world...
Re: [piisfish] My favorite BASE picture
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This fog picture looks like you guys are standing at the end of the world...
It was an amazing morning - clear blue skies, but fog all the way up the wall. I have a shot of the group standing at the top with the fog rolling over the cliff edge in the sunlight, but can't post it cos faces are recognisable...
Re: [cpoxon] My favorite BASE picture
Dan is that you? ... you look like a student! Look up and present, you make me proud!
*tears*
PerFlare
Re: [PerFlare] My favorite BASE picture
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Dan is that you? ... you look like a student!
Look up and present, you make me proud!
Hey Per! Yep, that's Dan the Man. Who else would wear such hideous colours? Dan is away for a few weeks, bringing joy to the Antipodies, so feel free to take the piss out of him!
Anyway, if you look carefully, the picture is not about Dan...it's about me! ;-)
Re: [evilivan] My favorite BASE picture
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but can't post it cos faces are recognisable...
Erm, obscure the faces?! :-P
Re: [cpoxon] My favorite BASE picture
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Erm, obscure the faces?! :-P
....perhaps I should have been more honest: I can't bothered spending time editing them
Re: [evilivan] My favorite BASE picture
If you know how to use MS paint you could edit them in under a minute. just cut thier faces out and save as jpg.
Re: [d_goldsmith] My favorite BASE picture
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If you know how to use MS paint you could edit them in under a minute. just cut thier faces out and save as jpg.
I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous statement.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
My friend Don who died several years ago. He would host us (BASE 1, BASE 58, BASE 175, and BASE 335) at the tower. Janis Joplin used to hang out there in his 1 room shack with an outhouse.
Re: [PerFlare] My favorite BASE picture
Too right he looks like a student. That suit and all. I guess theres no accounting for dress sense in this sport.
Re: [crazydave44] My favorite BASE picture
Don actually was not a jumper but he helped the jumpers quite a bit. His place was always party central. I was introduced to him originally by a BASE jumping cop. I made a jump with that cop 12 years ago one dark night and I landed in a tree. It turned out I landed in a pit of alligators. I was charged by a large alligator and I narrowly averted a potentially fatal attack. Don went out the next morning and shot the limbs of the tree that held my canopy. He did this without getting a single pellet in any part of my canopy. A story about Don. http://www.dropzone.com/...post=2050426#2050426
My post follows Walt's. There is a photo there of Don and me drinking a beer.
one of the rare pictures of me jumping from the things.
Re: [Lee846] My favorite BASE picture
Hard core! Is that tower really only 100 metres? Looks higher.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
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Hard core!
Is that tower really only 100 metres? Looks higher.
Re: My favorite BASE picture
Going through my pics I found this one again, it's my favorite one. Who has not enjoyed this view in the morning sun
Re: [Lee846] My favorite BASE picture
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Hard core!
Is that tower really only 100 metres? Looks higher.
My Suunto X9 told me also that it`s 110m, so i think it is...
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
A couple that fell out of my skydiving m.o.p's while I was reading them on the can. First is of Jeremy. Early morning getting ready to jump. This was at a time before he had a Norge girlfriend and started looking down on us slider off jumpers...
The other is Erik or Al. All I recall from that evening is that I didn't get to jump because I wanted some shots from the bottom. This being the best of them, I should have rather jumped...
Re: [el_chester] My favorite BASE picture
Yo Friends...Here`s new one from LB last week !!! Thanks for everybody who were jumping with us...
Re: [fastpete] My favorite BASE picture
Here's one from Pete's camera as well, taken by Annikki. I recon it's a nice shot but makes you wonder for a while what an earth is going on. :) http://sunmutsi.ufufreefly.com/2-way/tatti.jpg
Hyvä et lähettiin !
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Nice colour from popular exit now 'out of bounds' Photo: David-Sweden
Re: [maretus] My favorite BASE picture
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Here's one from Pete's camera as well, taken by Annikki. I recon it's a nice shot but makes you wonder for a while what an earth is going on. :)
http://sunmutsi.ufufreefly.com/2-way/tatti.jpg
Hyvä et lähettiin !
Is he pitching as he's coming out of a gainer? Or is that just a really f***ed up hand-held deployment?!!
Re: [Tyrion] My favorite BASE picture
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Here's one from Pete's camera as well, taken by Annikki. I recon it's a nice shot but makes you wonder for a while what an earth is going on. :)
http://sunmutsi.ufufreefly.com/2-way/tatti.jpg
Hyvä et lähettiin !
Is he pitching as he's coming out of a gainer? Or is that just a really f***ed up hand-held deployment?!!
The first guess is the winner. :) I'm coming out of a gainer and have just extracted the pc.
Re: [gweeks] My favorite BASE picture
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That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.
I love pictures that capture that moment.
Here is mine
(And a couple others)
Photos by SabreDave
Re: [dbagdrew] My favorite BASE picture
You're sure it's not just photos by sabredave that you love? I have a theory that the guy could shoot [insert event here] and it'd end up looking like the sweetest [insert event here] ever. 'Course, it never hurts to have my pretty face in the shot.
Re: [Bazair2air] My favorite BASE picture
Nice pics Drew. I didn't get one of me launching, but I really like these.
Re: [d_goldsmith] My favorite BASE picture
that must of been a loud exit point, the water looks rather inviting
Re: [nicrussell] My favorite BASE picture
Beautiful. Some of the water is pretty gnarly, but some of it isn't that bad. I had my brother on the water to help on that particular jump. I also had my cousin and uncle come, but for some reason neither of them stood at the water (which is why I invited them). Atleast my cousin shot video
Re: [base736] My favorite BASE picture
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You're sure it's not just photos by sabredave that you love? I have a theory that the guy could shoot [insert event here] and it'd end up looking like the sweetest [insert event here] ever.
'Course, it never hurts to have my pretty face in the shot.
That's why I had him shoot my wedding!!
Re: [d_goldsmith] My favorite BASE picture
Dave, I thought you would like to see this picture from your first "E".
Congrats on your latest "E" as well!
Alan
I will repost once I get permission from the other 2 guys.
Re: [Lini] My favorite BASE picture
When Alan dresses his bodyarmor, he scares me..... He is definily ready for the 3rd and 4th war......
Andre.
Re: [neneskydive] My favorite BASE picture
Hey Alan. I just got off of ban for cracking a post-pubescent pedophilia joke in the thread about Clair and Jimmy H. Thanks for posting the pic. I know how to get ahold of SG to ask if it's ok to post the pic, but do you know how to get ahold of Bob?
Re: [SBCmac] My favorite BASE picture
Thanks for the Congrats Mike. Here's video of that cliff for anyone that wants to see it. Black Jacks rock http://www.skydivingmovies.com/...ion=file&id=5313
Re: [d_goldsmith] My favorite BASE picture
Your welcome....bad form to crack jokes about a guys wife but anyway .....I was hopeing Bob and SG would chime in that it was cool as its a really nice pic of the group and a great jump. I will look for Bobs e mail and dig up SG's # when I get a chance.
Later,
Alan
Re: [neneskydive] My favorite BASE picture
What do you mean??? YOU with armor on would scare the $h!t out of someone if you you could just keep from smiling that big Brazilian grin! Alan
Re: [JohnDoe] My favorite BASE picture
I wasn't cracking a joke about Jimmy or Clair, I was standing up for post-pubescent relations in the form of a joke.
Re: [Tornolf] My favorite BASE picture
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To rerail the thread
Exiting on a low freefall.
Any chance you have pics couple frames before that shot ? Looks like pretty good example of the "throw upwards" technique. I'd be very interested seeing those.
Re: [maretus] My favorite BASE picture
ok. my turn. First jump is from a S/L. Tailgate in action!
Second is a dbag in moab.
Third is a static line from an S.
Last is wall street in moab.
:-)
Re: [Tornolf] My favorite BASE picture
thats not a freefall, thats an air-assisted PCA. Your foot is still on the object. Pussy...
Re: [maretus] My favorite BASE picture
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In reply to:
To rerail the thread
Exiting on a low freefall.
Any chance you have pics couple frames before that shot ? Looks like pretty good example of the "throw upwards" technique. I'd be very interested seeing those.
Nope. Next time I freefall it I'll try and get some earlier pics or better video to screencap.
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Second is a dbag in moab.
No, that's somebody trying to kill me with their ghetto dbag that doesn't work.
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thats not a freefall, thats an air-assisted PCA. Your foot is still on the object.
The air sucks at PCA'ing
It gives me around 2 seconds less canopy time than tieing off to the object does.
Re: [avenfoto] My favorite BASE picture
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the first two are of the local playground
Is there a story behind the first one? He looks pretty shocked or something.
Re: [dbagdrew] My favorite BASE picture
http://www3.telus.net/j_suter/img/018.jpg I'm still sad that wasn't jumpable. It's the perfect diving platform...
Re: [MyTwoCents] My favorite BASE picture
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I'm still sad that wasn't jumpable.
How come?
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
I asked about that one a while back. It had something to do with landing before canopy inflation. Besides that, he said it looked great.
Re: [hookitt] My favorite BASE picture
not if you borrowed some french guy's catapult. But i guess that would defeat the purpose of the nice exit platform in the first place...
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Cool fuckin' shit to watch live!! Props to all those involved, has probably been broken by now, I don't keep up on all that shit! Keep it real.......
Re: [dride] My favorite BASE picture
The record is now a 21 way..... http://maxnoy.com/base/twf21way/img_9931.htm
Re: [vid666] My favorite BASE picture
And this one is called "The view from the exit point" If anybody has a clue, please don't make public guesses of the city.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
this is my 3rd base jump (it's my avatar, only BIGGER) & it's my only base pic here is the video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U-YngBiwYWA
PLZ FLAME ME
ps, i hope pic uploadz
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
Very cool, in so many ways that's an awesome picture! Thanks.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
I have always loved these two pics. I thought that they were taken by 915 but since he is in the second one I have no idea who took them.
As it was me in the first pic and I was first off, I left them to decide who would play with the camera.
I haven't checked with the photographer so please assume these are copyrighted material.
JP901
Re: [jammiepak] My favorite BASE picture
Hey JP, I think I took the one of you but handed the camera to James B for the one of me.
Nice photos
Mike
Re: [base915] My favorite BASE picture
This just happened to be my newly favorite pic. Fly free Sean
Re: [deadmanwalking] My favorite BASE picture
http://www.facebook.com/...432&id=203002032 a few of my favorites.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
it is chad,was.frans,and me on eiger exit on lm is yo yo from germany
Re: [airdog07] My favorite BASE picture
Found an old shot of Nite Cap #3 and #4 back when Carl was keeping the numbers. It was the second time we did it and the only one of three I did there in daylight.
Re: [Faber] My favorite BASE picture
thanks man, funny thing is, i didnt take but 2 of those pictures, and they were all on my canon digital elph s500, i would set the camera up in its manual function, turn on the multiffram (3.5frames/sec) set the exposure, and hand it to ground crew. tell them, hold this button down when i exit.
now thanks to Bazil i have a D400 with a BAD ASS lense, and i can take even better shots. but, , , its winter.
Re: [AdamLanes] My favorite BASE picture
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nice pics
Dude, it's a conspiracy. Somebody is trying to set you up.
Re: [blitzkrieg] My favorite BASE picture
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wait a minute... camo is still IN?
no offense... but i seriously doubt camo ever did any of you hosers or this sport any good at all.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
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no offense... but i seriously doubt camo ever did any of you hosers or this sport any good at all.
With that I give you this pic.
Maggot hiding near an A while waiting for the workers to leave. Notice the creative use of his camo stash bag.....
Re: [blitzkrieg] My favorite BASE picture
Of course camo is still in weren't you at bridge day this year? I think everyone was wearing them...Really I just want to be like everyone else Besides if you weighed 115lbs and it was freezing, you would be wearing anything you had to keep you warm too.. I would have settled for regular snow pants but I don't have any im a poor college kid, anyone want to donate some cash so I can be back in style? Please!!!!!!!! Because you know BASE jumping is all about style
Re: [sillie1111] My favorite BASE picture
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Of course camo is still in
weren't you at bridge day this year? I think everyone was wearing them...Because you know BASE jumping is all about style
i have no style. i was one of the few just wearing jeans at
BD 06.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
I like this 2 pics most: http://www.bernhardschwab.de/skyhigh/lauterbrunnen_2004/bilder/DSC02643.jpg
http://www.skyger.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=MediaGalerie&file=index&do=showpic&pid=1744&orderby=dateD
Re: [Lavielle] My favorite BASE picture
What do you think about this photo? It was taken by John Dickey - http://www.dickeyphoto.com.
Re: [tobiasz] My favorite BASE picture
Adam Hartley took a photo years back, from the same exit point, but at sunset. The bright red and orange sunset was reflected on the surface of the water, and the cliff was in shadow, but the jumper in sunlight. I think I've got a print of it somewhere, but this was pre-digital, so it's just on paper.
Re: [dbagdrew] My favorite BASE picture
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I took these of one of the German jumpers I met up with will in LB on Saturday.
Re: [piisfish] My favorite BASE picture
I noticed that afterwards too. Got a good chuckle out of it. I wore a Pro-Track as well, in my pocket. It didn't read anything, as I only did a 5 second delay. I think it has to be over 1000' of freefall before they read anything. Didn't ask him if he got anything.
Re: [airdog07] My favorite BASE picture
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how is the weather over there ?
Weather was really nice. A little chilly, but no snow anywhere. The hike to the exit point was not an issue in terms of sketchy areas with ice. Think it's global warming or something.
Andrew
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
its not a great picture, i just found it in my journal. it was taken by the girl who deathcamped me, i guess she was a bit nervous. she should be, i landed on the north side of the river in early febuary.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
A few fairly recent ones I have taken.. Kudos to the jumpers in frame...
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
Nice pics Darren, especially Monty doing his flippy-do shit and DTM over the rocks. Gus
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
SUPER NICE. iNSPECTING THE ROCK IS GREAT
too lazy to retype without caps...
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
Tenacious B from the P'rine did some fancy computer work with Zoter's pictures and produced a stitched version that's quite nice.
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
hey hey I think I recognize the LZ in 'tight.LZ'.
That's BH right?
If it is, then I have had a fairly close look at that landing area and I wouldn't be calling that tight (by a long shot).
I'm curious what the other UK jumpers think if that is BH.
Re: [980] My favorite BASE picture
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hey hey
I think I recognize the LZ in 'tight.LZ'.
That's BH right?
Yes, it's BH.
The main lz is more "generous" than "tight".
Having said that, someone has managed to run out of generous, lovely, fluffy beach and fly straight into the cliff!
Re: [jonstark] My favorite BASE picture
One of my mates has been trying to get me to climb it for a couple of years, reckons it's "fun".
It might only be 300', but that sounds like hard work to me.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Panoramic shots by Xomato. The building jump was my very first SL, and there's some video to accompany it:
http://www.skydivingmovies.com/...ion=file&id=5592
Don't you just love that security guy, ever so nonchalant?
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
hahaha. that was awesome. sweet video, and nice pics.
how high?
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
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There's some video to accompany it...
Have you considered wearing helmets for urban jumps? I know there are sometimes reasons why a helmet is to be avoided for security reasons, but this didn't appear like one of them.
Re: [n_pertuset] My favorite BASE picture
230-240ish ft I reckon. Whatever 24 or 25 floors measure at.
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
xomato is hands down the best base photographer ive seen yet. something to aspire to.. nice images
Re: [avenfoto] My favorite BASE picture
Speaking of which, here are some only marginally BASE-related, but none too shabby anyway.
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
brrr.... those are really cool pictures. and a really cool exit point. thanks for sharing
Re: [nicrussell] My favorite BASE picture
here is a couple of mine. actually, the only ones i really have. cheers!
grumbles
Re: [AdamLanes] My favorite BASE picture
In the Valley, http://i74.photobucket.com/...attrob123/img016.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/...ob123/Switzsmall.jpg
Dam,
http://i74.photobucket.com/...attrob123/img017.jpg
Norway,
http://i74.photobucket.com/...23/Norway2006063.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/...23/Norway2006019.jpg
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
found this today... she's hot... also there is the jumping from an S in fog...
Re: [bob.dino] My favorite BASE picture
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Someone's printed that out and posted it at our DZ
.
That was me!!
Re: [katzurki] My favorite BASE picture
Yeah katzurki, how did that one turn out? Hienous pics man. poor bastard...
Re: [Spiderbaby] My favorite BASE picture
1. The correct spelling is "heinous". 2. I'm not poor :)
3. "Bastard" - you probably meant "baser"? :) Not yet, I'm just a student, but thanks anyway for this honorary title.
4. It turned out well - I'm here.
If it might be of interest, I escaped on rear risers. With no time to deal with toggles, I landed the canopy by the risers as well. No bruises. The reason for 180 is "shit happens". Neat packjob, symmetric body position. Not that I'm so experienced in determining reasons for off-headings, it's just the opinion of my mentor who had controlled my packing and watched my jump from the exit point.
That's all I have to tell about this. The situation is "standard", may happen anytime, one should always be prepared for it. I don't think there's any need for further discussion. That's all. Bye-bye.
P.S. katzurki, I looked up in my LB and the jump is actually the 8th.
Re: [Airgazm] My favorite BASE picture
Glad you're okay, thanks for the spelling lesson:). Yep, 180's happen. Watch out for windows dude.
An old favourite
BASE #28 S/L out of the window of an apartment block in Knightsbridge, London c. 1982 and only 133', raining and windy, I remember it well! BASE #24 went next, not for me though. Al
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
All, I cleaned some posts out of this thread by request of the photographer and poster.
In order to do so, I also had to remove the following photos:
Posted by Xomato, photo by Xomato (Starting Point of No Return)
Posted by Tobiasz, photo by Tobiasz (Another perspective)
Posted by Bowie, photo by Atle Dahl (Favorite from last summer in Norway)
Posted by Tobiasz, photo by Tobiasz (When the weather is bad in MB)
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Here was one taken of me in the west... Above the object was thick fog, below in the valley was clear...
A surreal jump for sure
Re: [leroydb] My favorite BASE picture
You really like that jump ;-) I remember jumping that particular span for the first time. I did it in the pouring rain, and had a heck of a time climbing out, as I couldn't find any kind of real trail. It was heck of a lot of fun though. :-) I should get back there this summer. -=Raistlin
Re: [Mac] My favorite BASE picture
i just checked out the new favorite base pics and I'm jones for some base. Thanks for sharing.
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
Hi Darren! Picture 10 is also nice
Really nice pics!
It was totally nice 2 meet U guys and jump with U!
-Tony- FTF
...f### the Finns !
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
C'mon people, picture #8 is the real prize. Wearing a BASE rig backwards is TOTALLY MANLY! I would never try that, totally hardcore.
Re: [freeflychris] My favorite BASE picture
First jump... Jump was executed from a 360' freestander at sunset. PCA.
A professional photographer came along to capture my jump along with a few others. Big thanks to him for the incredible shot. I love the contrast of the jumper all in black suspended in front of the bright landscape below, the illuminated shoe soles, the blurred background yet crisply-outlined jumper. And of course, the bright red canopy exploding off the back of the jumper!!!
Also thanks to katzurki, who talked me into starting BASE. This jump was done in November 2005. A year-and-a-half later and still injury free.
http://217.172.55.13/Jump 1 - Strah.jpg
Re: [rpersi] My favorite BASE picture
Nice job Randy, though it looks as if you're looking towards the heavens and praying mightily for it to please please work. I've never done a tard so what do I know. Cool pic fer sure!
Re: [tr027] My favorite BASE picture
I'll get back out there someday.... meanwhile I have to "heal" up. Great pic though.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Espen and Hans from VKB. Not the sharpest, but I can tell you it was a interesting view :-)
Re: [434] My favorite BASE picture
434, thats amazing. is it a zoom-illusion? i hope not. he is LOW. luic low.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
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434, thats amazing. is it a zoom-illusion? i hope not. he is LOW. luic low.
Thats no zoom-illusion! Luic was here to, and they all put up a good show!
Re: [434] My favorite BASE picture
do you have a larger version of that online somewhere? i'd love to be able to see the whites in their eyes (which i'm sure you can on a larger version)
Re: [BGill] My favorite BASE picture
this is the cut of the picture, unfortenly not the sharpes pic!
Re: [434] My favorite BASE picture
hmmmm camera mount on the right leg.. why the right leg...? I would have thought it would be 'safer' on the left.....alot safer...
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
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hmmmm camera mount on the right leg..
why the right leg...? I would have thought it would be 'safer' on the left.....alot safer...
whatev. maybe he has a left throwout.
Re: [Zoter] My favorite BASE picture
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hmmmm camera mount on the right leg..
why the right leg...? I would have thought it would be 'safer' on the left.....alot safer...
Probably, but right leg provides for better video.
That's what's really important, right?
Re: [Para_Frog] My favorite BASE picture
hmmm, it is nice to hav frend tak fotos but next time ask him to shoot you frm the otha side. yuo get mor of a dinamic from left to right also if you ar in top therd of foto we get to see what you are faling into. here we canot see were you are going and it lefts us pendinge.
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Thanks to Devon Steigerwald! http://WWW.DEVONSTEIGERWALD.COM
Coco
Re: [rpersi] My favorite BASE picture
Almost worthy of a rig. I know it aint BASE, but thought you guys might appreciate a bit of Ozzy FRASCA. Whippin it good on this one as you could imagine - off to the chiro now.
Re: [dmcoco84] My favorite BASE picture
Not a great shot, but it's one of my favorites. Here's a picture of me about to make my first base jump. '83 NRGB. I first heard of BASE jumping from Skydiving Magazine on Tuesday and made my first BASE jump on Saturday! I had about 160 jumps at the time. First Jump Course? What's that!
Edited to put the pictures back in! Oh, btw, 2 weeks later Uncle Sam sent us to that little known island paradise called Genada to rescue some very grateful co-eds!
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
A three way linked exit naked from a 600 foot cliff. try beating that photo!
My fav "BASE" pic
this was a week ago, got a bunch off the perrine. beautiful weekend. the 2nd one is the start of a huge wingover... crazy doing one that low and right nest to the steel!!!
Re: My fav "BASE" pic
Found it on Google Maps -- many of you have jumped this pink B One more reason to visit M. I just like the picture
And congrats with the new forum
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1460784
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Just curious. Some of the last postings at DZ.com didn't make it over to this site. I posted some pictures a week or so ago that didn't survive the transition. Anyone know why?
Re: [TomAiello] My favorite BASE picture
Thanks, Tom. BTW, did anyone ever tell you what a cool name you have?
Re: [Gabo] My favorite BASE picture
Good gawd Gabo that's a phat pic, dude. I'm curious... where the paint is flaking off.... is that where everyone takes a piss? Hope life is treating you well.
Take care
Gardner
Re: [Gabo] My favorite BASE picture
If my teacher posts, so will I Jump from last weekend somewhere secret in Switzerland...
Picture one is how you get up and picture two is how you get down!
Re: [Mikki_ZH] My favorite BASE picture
Ha ha , I´d rather piss in the water, it keeps the crocodiles away. Ha ha See ya soon,
PS Michi Me tienes que llevar a ese lugar secreto
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
A couple hundred of professional shots from Tolis, May '07 base tour: http://glavfoto.ru/....php?g2_itemId=11801
Enjoy ;)
Re: My favorite BASE picture
like this one: http://www.glavfoto.ru/...ip+2007_139.JPG.html Kar_puzz on it, picture by Tolis
Re: [Lee846] My favorite BASE picture
Cute outfit http://glavfoto.ru/...ip+2007_015.JPG.html Kstati, I still owe you (or someone) $60.
Re: My favorite BASE picture
can't stop to post. Will post the link in case he doesn't want the picture to be posted here. http://xomato.livejournal.com/476902.html
must be added to FAVORITES:
http://www.photo.net/photos/xomato
Re: My favorite BASE picture
Some pic I found fooling around with google earth on Norway. Credit goes to Christoph Jansen
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
I'm kinda fond of this one, this week... Courtesy of Chris Bazil. Great job Chris!
BASE359
Re: [JSBIRD] My favorite BASE picture
JSBIRD wrote:
I'm kinda fond of this one, this week...
Courtesy of Chris Bazil. Great job Chris!
BASE359
nice ass.. Seriously though - who and where is hiding all the pics from RG ? I don't havea single shot of myself. I need proof of my presence damnit ! :)
Re: [vid666] My favorite BASE picture
were you at RG this year? really?
no pictures -> must not have happened!
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
One of my favourites from this years trip. Could do with a bit of photo shopping maybe....... Enjoy
Re: [pidge] My favorite BASE picture
This one is from a legal 62m B in an old mining town. Photo by Aave. Thanks bro!
Kerkko
BASE 1184
Re: [Gaper] My favorite BASE picture
Some jumps I have to dig a little deeper than others: http://www.facebook.com/...544&id=542562038
Michael
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
pocbase wrote:
Wow!!! That's a good 1 for the log book...
That jump was one of my favourites: first jump from a cliff my friend found while climbing in the area. The logbook entry goes something like this:
We left the car at 3 am. The approach involved 90 minutes of straightforward hiking, then 90 minutes picking our way through 4th- and low 5th-class ledges, followed by a pitch of 5.7 and a 5th-class traverse across the wall, all by the light of our headlamps.
The jump is a 6-second rock drop, but with some intimidating ledges a hundred feet down. A gusty wind was rolling off the glacier to the right and down the valley, underscoring the danger of landing short, in a steep slope littered with fridge-sized boulders. The intended landing area was a modest patch of bread box-sized rocks a little further down the slope. It was about the best I could find.
I spent maybe 90 minutes on the top assessing the conditions, and trying to figure out if the ledges below the exit point would be a problem, before I finally decided that it was a good day for jumping in marginal conditions. After all, we'd got up well before dawn to make my most technical BASE approach yet. Somehow a sketchy jump seemed like the right way to end the story. I armoured up and put on my gear.
I did a 2-second delay, with a wonderful view of the ledges, and had a perfect on-heading opening. The winds under canopy were as bad as I thought they would be, but not worse. It made it impossible to pinpoint my landing, but at least my canopy was staying inflated. I wound up landing just shy of the intended landing area, planting my feet on top of a rock, but not quite under me. One roll backward, a quick check of my breakable parts, and I was grinning from ear to ear.
I hiked out in half an hour and met my friend, who shot the photo and is largely responsible for getting me safely to the top, an hour after that.
Michael
Re: [Hartkor_Fakker] My favorite BASE picture
Hartkor_Fakker wrote:
Fakker Style :)
Wearing a freefly suit BASE jumping is so yesterday
Edited to add link to thread I started for you http://www.dropzone.com/...;;page=unread#unread
Re: [avenfoto] My favorite BASE picture
this was in malaysia this year. I saw this jump from directly above. what *I THINK* happend was the triple close rotational way is that the left jumpers pins/ velcro got torn off by middle jumper and then extracted the canopy. He pitched his PC a millisecond before linestretch avoiding the nasty horseshoe mal. looked ultra scary, but all turned out ok.
Re: [Dickhead] My favorite BASE picture
we should have the: "my favorite pic from the potato bridge" thread. in between the awesome pics in this thread you get some fuzzy photos off the same object some dudes consider their favorite pic.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
pocbase wrote:
we should have the: "my favorite pic from the potato bridge" thread.
in between the awesome pics in this thread you get some fuzzy photos off the same object some dudes consider their favorite pic.
DEFINITELY not the gayest pic in this thread. Nice comment...
Re: [gravityboyd] My favorite BASE picture
One of MY favorites... from yesterday. **warning** I did not submit this photo to the My Favorite Pic Police, so it may be completely unsuitable for this group.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
Pocbase do you believe in karma? I DO!!! Hope you not jumping anytime soon.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
my new favs. the WS shot is by Brendon, the PG one is boyd's sweet skill somehow overcoming his Nikon schwag.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
pocbase wrote:
we should have the: "my favorite pic from the potato bridge" thread.
in between the awesome pics in this thread you get some fuzzy photos off the same object some dudes consider their favorite pic.
Re: [Dickhead] My favorite BASE picture
I agree with pocbase. The title of the thread is "my favorite BASE picture" Which, I thought, when this thread started that people would actually put some thought and consideration into their choice but many people only feel this is a spot to put their 'latest' jump and not their 'favorite'. A split would be benficial you could name them 'Fun BASE Photos' and 'Quality BASE photos'. While I can understand that if you only have your first jump or perrine pictures of yourself this might be your favorite picture of 'yourself' but can people honestly say that it would be their favorite BASE picture? There are so many really great shots by some outstanding photographers out on the web that really showcase BASE and the beauty in it rather than just another 'I made a BASE jump' pic.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
HA!! Calvin's Death Camp! Love it... even though it's shot on a canon.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
pocbase wrote:
we should have the: "my favorite pic from the potato bridge" thread.
unfortunately, there are few sites in the US that regularly permit daytime jumps. you know, jumps that CAN be captured on a camera. TF provides an opportunity for picture taking.
then, some overeager jumpers desire to prove they can run with the big dogs... so they need a picture. maybe wiser folks have been telling them to slow down. they want evidence to they CAN do things, to prove they deserve respect. hopefully, they do not get hurt...
I'd like the best images to be submited to the "Photos" section of this site. at 21 pages, I bet this thread has many wonderful shots that are not viewed often.
heck, even if the fuzzy images get posted in "Photos" as well, then we can rate them as one star images!
Re: [wwarped] My favorite BASE picture
i do agree also, but regardless... it's nice to see pictures in this thread whether they're great or not. i don't really care if they're going to make sweet posters, or just someone's latest snapshot. it's entertaining. and if they suck, i can say to myself (quietly so i won't get beat up) wow, that's a lame-ass picture... i've deleted better photos then that. and in that spirit i attach this fuzzy photo. whoops!
Re: [blitzkrieg] My favorite BASE picture
blitzkrieg wrote:
and in that spirit i attach this fuzzy photo. whoops!
yeah, but it is NOT lame enough!
heck it isn't even from TF!
and no out of control flippy-do!
(although we can question if your pilot chut got hung up in your hand...)
Re: [wwarped] My favorite BASE picture
it was only then that i learned fingers (and thumbs) are snag points.
Re: [blitzkrieg] My favorite BASE picture
blitzkrieg wrote:
i don't really care if they're going to make sweet posters....
Sorry Elliot, then I am posting one that is going to make a sweet poster.... well for me anyway.
thanks to Amy Redmon for the shot!
_justin
but it is still a bridge....
Re: [Dickhead] My favorite BASE picture
In reply to:
Pocbase do you believe in karma? I DO!!!
Hope you not jumping anytime soon.
I am going to jump soon... and I don't believe in bad karma for epressing an opinion on an internet forum... Then again I don't send replies when I get chain letters either, man I am so doomed!
Re: [gravityboyd] My favorite BASE picture
gravityboyd wrote:
One of MY favorites... from yesterday. **warning** I did not submit this photo to the My Favorite Pic Police, so it may be completely unsuitable for this group.
The sunset was still better live - even with your fancy dancy camera and great skill of the photographer.... But, I think WE share a similar feeling about that photo being epic, so the both of us can beat up the favorite pic police...
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
you dont send replies to chain letters? !?!? you ARE doomed. you will never kiss your true love, and your family will die a million times over and you will be murdered by midnight for the next thousand years.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
whatev. we can't enjoy that picture as it was taken from a nikon. even though it is beautiful, it is pure luck that that non-canon schwag was able to get that picture. ok, ok,
it is a beautiful pic.
and we really should not waste this cool thread with our retarded jabbering on.
I like seeing a bunch of BASE pictures in here. i dont care if they are grainy, misfocused, burnt out, underexposed, etc (like all mine are
). BASE pics are cool. even if they are potato. DONE.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
Calvin19 wrote:
couldn't sleep at the A.
SICK Pics Calvin... (even if they're from a Canon).
Sorry I missed the load.
Soon.... very soon.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
Ye, I suppose you're right... Nice pics by the way.
Some of the nicest pics I have seen here are from Xomato... all the russian stuff... he uses a Nikon
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
pocbase wrote:
all the russian stuff... he uses a Nikon
blasphemy
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
hey man, nice tower shots.. i like how the white leds on the tower mix well with the stars... if you turn your iso back down to 400 or less, and use a (much) longer exposure, there wont be as much noise..
you might need to make/buy a remote switch,that can lock open, and use your "bulb" shutter speed with a stopwatch
nice shots dude.
Re: [avenfoto] My favorite BASE picture
avenfoto wrote:
hey man, nice tower shots.. i like how the white leds on the tower mix well with the stars...
if you turn your iso back down to 400 or less, and use a (much) longer exposure, there wont be as much noise..
you might need to make/buy a remote switch,that can lock open, and use your "bulb" shutter speed with a stopwatch
nice shots dude.
dude... what do you think i am? an amature?
2 of those shots are on a 2005 Canon SD550 point and shoot camera.
the two obvious star trail ones are on my XTI. 4min and 25min exposures. the one with the tower in it has been put through all the standard photoshop noise filters as well as useing the dark-imager inside the camera to filter noise then. and i have a remote switch. used it for those two. i just got bored with the shutter open, so i brought my point/shoot. its capable of 50,100,200,400 ISO, and up to 15 sec shutter speed. really no way to make it better there
normaly when shooting time lapse or ERS pics i have found that ISO 100, F 4.0-9.0, and 15-100min shutter speeds are the best. along with the cameras built in noise-reducer as well as the 'dark' imager that filters out basic static noise on the CCD.
edit to add- the noise in the star trail ones is JPG artifact. added after i had to save them in small jpg files for the super-small dorkzone size limitations.
Re: [pocbase] My favorite BASE picture
pocbase wrote:
Do you realize that because of our jibber jabber in the last page or so, very few people are going to see this pic
That's bad carma dude; you'd better get writing those chain letters if you don't want a life of misery...
Well - I have to admit I like Boyd a lot, but his choice in camera shots from that jump is LAME... As, this is clearly a better shot.
And, I think it was taken with a "My First Sony (tm)" camera.
Re: [Calvin19] My favorite BASE picture
Calvin19 wrote:
normaly when shooting time lapse or ERS pics i have found that ISO 100, F 4.0-9.0, and 15-100min shutter speeds are the best. along with the cameras built in noise-reducer as well as the 'dark' imager that filters out basic static noise on the CCD.
Say what?? I just push the button and the Nikon does the rest
Plus, I have a Mac, so the photos are automatically better. In fact, everything is better because I have a Mac. Calvin - think how happy your Mac would be if you gave it a Nikon to play with.