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  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates xnow-filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates xnow-filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Erma Bombeck at home in Scottsdale, Arizona with her family.  She was author of the book, "Family: the ties that Bind and Gag."
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  • (1 of 2)We were going to take a photograph of Phil Currie rappeling on this vertically faulted cliff and measuring these dinosaur tracks, but the light wasn't right so we returned the next day but the cliff had collapsed.  SEE
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  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • A climber uses goggles to sooth himself to sleep during a climb to Danali National Park, Alaska.
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  • A climber uses goggles to sooth himself to sleep during a climb to Danali National Park, Alaska.
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  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.<br />
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(1 of 2)We were going to take a photograph of Phil Currie rappeling on this vertically faulted cliff and measuring these dinosaur tracks, but the light wasn't right so we returned the next day but the cliff had collapsed.  SEE
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  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates snow filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Erma Bombeck at home in Scottsdale, Arizona with her family.  She was author of the book, "Family: the ties that Bind and Gag."
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  • America's top climbing couple, Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden.
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  • Photography is usually one of the professions where, if you do a bad job nobody dies but when I photographed the Chrysler Building there was every chance that if we messed up – statistically someone was going to get hurt.  We fabricated a scaffold with adjustable platforms to mount four motorized Hasselblad cameras and hang it over the edge of the Chrysler Building to get this viewpoint. One of my assistants, a bit of an electronics buff wired all the cameras to a single switching box so I could fire them all with one button. It so happened that the previous tenants had vacated the week before so we had the whole wing of the floor to ourselves.  We strung climbing rope through the windows and around the building as a main lifeline and clipped ourselves onto the line with harnesses.  The whole heavy contraption was lowered and raised about thirty times over rush hour pedestrian traffic some 57 stories above Lexington Avenue as we changed film backs and adjusted exposures and made slight adjustments in camera angles.  Even though we were all roped and harnessed in, if anything fell, say a film back or film slide and hit someone it would have been a disaster.<br />
We photographed the building over several days during a couple of sunsets and sunrises, even at different times of year but the best shot was taken the first day.  It was one of those miraculously rare clear days when the pollution was blown out to sea leaving metropolis looking like it just got out of the bath.  I used Tungsten film to accentuate the blues of magic hour when two divergent spectrums of light, blues and reds, coverag
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  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, climbers Ling Sinclair (blond hair) and Greg Liu use a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
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  • While hanging from a rope, Hans Larsson excavates a toe bone of a centrosaur.
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  • Peter Jenkins, an arborist in Atlanta, Georgia has belped to turn tree climbing into a world-wide sport pulls a pilot  line attached to a larger climbing rope, over a limb of a tree he uses to teach climbers.
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  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, Climber Greg Liu uses a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
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  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, Climbers Greg Liu (right) and Andy Taylor use a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
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  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, Climber Andy Taylor uses a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
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  • Gear for tree climbing is essentially the same as rock climbing except cambium savers (leather loops) are used to protect bark from rope burn.
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  • While hanging from a rope, Hans Larsson excavates a toe bone of a centrosaur.
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  • While hanging from a rope, Hans Larsson excavates a toe bone of a centrosaur.
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  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, climbers Ling Sinclair (blond hair) and Greg Liu use a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
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  • Peter Jenkins, an arborist in Atlanta, Georgia has belped to turn tree climbing into a world-wide sport pulls a pilot  line attached to a larger climbing rope, over a limb of a tree he uses to teach climbers.
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  • I built this set in Cornell University’s sheep barn to illustrate a story for National Geographic on Sleep and Dreams.  We built it over a holiday weekend and were told that someone from the animal husbandry department would be around to help us get sheep onto the set.  So I became a bit nervous when our handler told us he was going to enjoy supper with his family leaving me to wrangle the sheep onto the set by myself.  “It’ll be easy,” he told me, “just get the most dominant sheep tied to the bed and the others will follow.”  After pointing out the most dominant sheep to me which didn’t look at all that dominant, he left. I led the begrudging sheep to the set, tied it to the bedpost and waited.  I waited quite awhile.  After more than a reasonable amount of time passed I noticed that the other less dominant sheep still looked quite content to be apart from the dominant one. What may have unnerved them was that I had rigged a stuffed sheep (doomed to die at a slaughterhouse) with all sorts of ropes and pulleys in a jumping position above the bed. (N.G. does not like to use Photoshop)  Every one of the sheep had to be carried onto the set.  None came by their own will.
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