Crazy Grand Canyon Photographer Leaps Across 8ft Gap

**capt.hrod** · 05-26-2008, 01:08 PM

One slip an it will look like the old roadrunner cartoon. 8)

**singersp** · 05-26-2008, 01:10 PM

"capt.hrod" wrote:

One slip an it will look like the old roadrunner cartoon. 8)

Per Prophets post, it sounds like the pic is a fake.......

"Prophet" wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp (see pic. on site)

...The area shown is a popular photographic spot in the Grand Canyon, for the very reason demonstrated above:
if a photographer frames his picture just right, he can make it appear that his subject is leaping across a yawning chasm...

**AngloVike** · 05-26-2008, 03:29 PM

This maybe faked.. however there is no doubt that some photographers will do stupid things in order to get 'that picture'. Sure snowinapril knows a few like that.. lol

**singersp** · 05-26-2008, 04:13 PM

"AngloVike" wrote:

This maybe faked.. however there is no doubt that some photographers will do stupid things in order to get 'that picture'. Sure snowinapril knows a few like that.. lol

This one definitely is as Prophet pointed out.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp

But yes, people will do stupid things. For them we have the Darwin Awards.

**scottishvike** · 05-26-2008, 04:54 PM

"Prophet" wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp (see pic. on site)

...The area shown is a popular photographic spot in the Grand Canyon, for the very reason demonstrated above:
if a photographer frames his picture just right, he can make it appear that his subject is leaping across a yawning chasm...

Nice find Prophet, that teaches me for believing everything I read in the papers.

**midgensa** · 05-26-2008, 05:20 PM

"scottishvike" wrote:

"Prophet" wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp (see pic. on site)

...The area shown is a popular photographic spot in the Grand Canyon, for the very reason demonstrated above:
if a photographer frames his picture just right, he can make it appear that his subject is leaping across a yawning chasm...

Nice find Prophet, that teaches me for believing everything I read in the papers.

You can still believe most everything you read in the papers. Seriously!
;D