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I don’t want to spend any time talking about gruesome details or tell you every single story that happened, I just wanted to highlight a couple stories and leave you feeling inspired just as I felt when leaving Joplin.
May 22, 2011 Joplin was hit with a category EF-5 tornado with winds circulating at over 200mph. It carved a path a mile wide and 6 miles long, taking the lives of over 130 people. I heard about it as I was watching the NBA playoffs in Hollywood. I immediately felt a strong urge to go so I went the next day. I didn’t really have a plan or anything, I just knew I would go and figure it out when I got there. A brief history. My first film internship was at CIY in Joplin, Mo. Since then I have continued to stay close with some of the staff and even work on occasion together. It is just 2 hrs from my home town Muskogee, Ok.
I flew into Tulsa through one of the worst plane rides of my life. I will save that story for another day. My buddy Blake picked me up in Tulsa and we headed straight to The Bridge in Joplin. There I met my friend Tony who put me in contact with two guys named Parker and Josh.
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118 votesvote as favoriteWith the sun coming up I met Parker and we headed into the disaster area. My initial reaction was complete awe of the debris and devastation. I really don’t remember anything other than calmly repeating, “oh my God” on occasion. I was rendered speechless. We pulled over in Parker’s old neighborhood and went house to house. We checked some unmarked homes and helped any people we came across with whatever they needed. Later that day, we met up with Josh and Mick. Over the next week we did everything from Search and Rescue, cutting up trees, helping families find lost possessions, etc… There was a call about two women unaccounted for down the street. We ran to this home lugging chainsaws and crowbars, along with local law enforcement and volunteers. Adrenaline was high as everyone completely removed this home piece by piece. As each piece of debris was moved I just prayed and prayed we would find them alive. An intense 20 minutes passed as the house was now completely flat to the foundation. We found nothing. My heart has never beat that fast or hard before. Though we were upset, this story does have a happy ending. They were found alive the next day! They had survived the twister and were at a friends.
111 votesvote as favoriteThis is their house after we took it apart. The back side and right side are piles of the house we were throwing to the side.
We helped another family remove their remaining possessions from their destroyed home. While helping she told us her incredible story. They were huddled in the kitchen when the tornado struck their home. Their entire roof was lifted off as it were just a band-aid. While in the tornado, they ran through their home to a bathroom shower a couple rooms over. While running, she was struck in the head by a wooden beam. Her and 3 others made it into a ’single person’ stand up shower and took cover til the tornado had passed. When we finished we thanked her for letting us help, told her she was loved, and that God loved her. I leaned forward and hugged her. Just as I did, she burst into tears. I hugged her for a good minute before heading to the next home. I am not a very emotional person on the outside but I was weeping on the inside. My eyes watered up as we walked to the next house. Another stop we made, a man was trapped in his home by a fallen wall. The wall was resting on his head. Luckily he came out with only minor cuts and bleeding. We helped his wife find her medication and we also found his wallet. When you see some of the homes and what is left of them, it makes me wonder how anyone could have survived.
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126 votesvote as favoriteEveryone we met and spoke with were just truly thankful to be alive. It made me think about my travels abroad. It is always empowering to see people in 3rd world countries smile and be happy for life. Not in the least to take from them, but most of them have only known poverty and hunger, a devastating life in contrast to ours. We live in the land of unlimited option, despite what you say. We “have it all” right here in front of us. Well I saw a city in a western world take an absolute beating. People having everything now having nothing. What was the result of this beating? Joplin didn’t go to the corner bitching and moaning about themselves or what wasn’t being done. I saw Joplin jump back in the ring and fight with everything its got. I saw neighbors helping neighbors and strangers helping strangers. Giving food, water, clothing, assistance, time, energy….Helping not out off self worth or obligation but out of the sincerity and compassion of their hearts. Color, language, religion, age, sex….None of it mattered. It was love at its truest form, unconditional. It was remarkable. I will never forget it.
The last day I was there, I had just finished working and was heading home when I saw two soldiers putting up a flag at St. Mary’s church. I parked and ran across the street to try and capture this beautiful and inspiring moment. I snapped about 8 photos with my 35mm before he climbed down and stood facing the flag. They had found the American flag in the rubble and decided to post it on a broken tree outside the church. It gave me the chills watching them do this. A small little moral boost like that can go a long way. I saw several acts of patriotism during my short trip in Joplin. We are all in this together. As a great nation, we will rise together and help each other through anything. I was and still am so proud.
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131 votesvote as favoriteNext are a couple people who just in my brief time have inspired me here.
Parker Williams drove from a couple hours away bringing his truck and a trailer full of supplies. At the end of the first week, he coordinated and set up an event that filled two 18 wheelers full of supplies for Joplin. Amazing guy.
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121 votesvote as favoriteJosh and Mick drove down from Indiana together. Josh is ex-military and was team leader for our Search and Rescue team. Mick came down with chain-saws
which were very much needed. They were both very eager to help others and get things done. They both plan on going back soon. You can visit Josh’s site HERE for a list of local orgs that need help.
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123 votesvote as favoriteTad Agoglia started the organization “First Response.” He was a CNN Hero in 2008. Please go check them out and read up on everything they do. I spent a day with them as they brought in an extremely powerful generator to run the new 60 room make shift hospital. They also brought some heavy machinery and started clearing way for a new heli-pad. They will be there for weeks, maybe months, doing work. These are people that truly use money and resources to help people. They are definitely a great non-profit to consider donating to.
123 votesvote as favoriteKeep positive, keep praying, keep loving.
I am collaborating with my great friend Jeremy Cowart on an art piece that is coming out tomorrow. He is drawing a piece that will use some of my photos and video I captured in Joplin. Proceeds going to relief. Be on the look out.
I may be selling some 35mm prints here soon to help with relief as well.
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- Chuck Palahniuk
I am back!
129 votesvote as favoriteFinally after 3 weeks of excitement, chaos, and pure exhaustion, I am back state side! Right now I am currently trans-coding 400gigs worth of footage. This footage will contribute to an hour long Documentary about Holy Men in Varanasi. Before the documentary releases, probably this summer, there will be tons of content released from this trip. Trailers, teasers, bts, photos, blogs, etc… Joey, Ryan, and I will be timing our releases together so all of our content hits the web together. We are going to be releasing content at specific planned times in the future. We don’t want to give away too much in photos or blogs so then there is no more mystery to what’s in the documentary. I will just ask for you all to be patient with me. I want to take my time editing and give you guys the best possible finished product. I couldn’t be happier with the content I captured there. This trip has already required hundreds of hours, but it will require many many more. I promise it will be worth it in the end. Thank you all for your interest in our trip. Joey, Ryan, and I are very excited for you all to be a part of this journey. Please stay tuned! Tons of good news and content coming!
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Haiti was a trip unlike anything I have ever experienced. I had my presumptions about the country based off the overflowing amount of news and media attention they have gotten the past year. I truly wish I could’ve seen the country before the earthquake, however I don’t think it would be unwise for me to think it was in unstable condition. My first sense of how the trip was going to unfold took place right after we landed. The remote control gate that swings out to your door to let you walk off the plane had been disabled. At this announcement I laughed to myself. You ever have so much go wrong you just start laughing about it? I had been on an 8 hour flight which 4 hours were spent sitting on the runway, then I missed my Miami flight to Haiti by 5 minutes. I literally watched the plane leave the gate. So with the news over the com, I just smiled to myself thinking…travel shenanigans! We were brought out stairs to walk down onto the runway, oh well simple enough. I do that flying out of Burbank. We then got onto the shuttle and headed to immigration. As we were driving, I looked out and we were passing their original airport, pre-quake. It was still destroyed. Massive vine like cracks spider-ed the walls. A year later and their main “airport” terminal hadn’t been touched. We were then shuffled into the old baggage handling building that was now immigration and the baggage claim. The small room could barely handle one plane load of people. I got up to immigration and then remembered, “Crap! I don’t have an address to where I am going, I can’t get into the country!” See Jeremy, Katie, and I were supposed to be on the same flight and go through immigration together, so it wouldn’t have been a problem. It took me about an hour to get a hold of Jeremy and get everything squared with immigration. Finally I was in Haiti and we were on our way to Cadiac!
147 votesvote as favoritePano of Cadiac, Haiti. The building in the middle is a school. The building to the left is where we stayed.
The first thing I noticed is how social the country is. It seems like every single person is outside doing something. Street shops and vendors took up every square inch of sidewalk for blocks and blocks. I would love to see a bird’s eye view of Port-au-Prince. Seeing the hustle and bustle of the streets. We ended up staying in PaP that night at a contact of Jeremy’s, Frederic Dupoux. Our destination was Cadiac but we were told it was unsafe to travel over night. The next morning around 5am we loaded up and headed to our destination where we’d spend the next two days. The drive out there was a rocky 4 hours. You remember the movie “Ace Ventura, When Nature Calls?” For some reason this always came to mind while driving…I am weird I know. Remember when Jim Carrey is driving to the consulate at the beginning and he is bouncing his head and shaking it like he is on the bumpiest road ever? Well that is exactly what the streets were like in Haiti. If you closed your eyes you would feel as though you were driving on a road made of boulders. A couple times I actually felt sick. Along the way we’d notice vehicle after vehicle that was broken down or flipped and totally abandoned. I witnessed wheel fly off a moving car from the heavy bumps. Immediately after arriving in Cadiac I was reminded of places I had visited in Padang and Siberut, Indonesia. Bright lush green fields contrasted with ocean blue skies and puffy white cumulus clouds. One of the most beautiful contrasts of colors I have seen. A lot of the homes we visited were tucked away in giant fields, hills, and thick banana groves. They were much more infrequent to visitors then PaP.
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Jeremy and I were in Haiti with a group called HOPE International. They are an organization the specializes in micro finance loans. They have over 200,000 clients worldwide and have given over 1,000,000 loans! The brilliant thing is that they have weekly classes and business meetings ran by locals! They learn business and learn to save. It was so inspiring hearing what some of the people have done with such little money. They have turned their lives around and are heading in positive directions. Hope is helping people have a positive future. I am very thankful for what they do around the world and very thankful for being included in this trip.
The people we met were incredible and, ohhhh my gosh, the kids were so beautiful! Their contagious smiles would somehow infiltrate my cheeks and rip them back to my ears for the duration of our time together. They were effulgent, curious, and so energetic. Jeremy and I approached a soccer game going on in a more remote part of Cadiac. Kids playing barefoot on a concrete slab, with a tennis ball as the soccer ball. Our arrival temporarily interrupted the heated match but soon after we were all playing and laughing as if we entered the worlds biggest jungle gym. (See what I did there?) They wanted entertainment so I just let loose. I started showing them tricks I had learned from pitching and playing baseball. Popping the ball with my arms and juggling. Jeremy was teaching them how to pop and lock it! I then showed them how to pitch and hit a ball. After that I started a sword fight with a kid…..big mistake. I soon fell in defeat to 10+ rambunctious children stabbing me with sticks. I don’t think I have ever had a better time acting like I was 10 years old. Leaving the kids was probably the hardest thing in Cadiac. They had eyes as shiny as mirrors. Their dark eyes reflected every bit of the vibrant landscape. Their smiles were as bright as the sun. I’ll never forget them!
145 votesvote as favoriteTheir eyes turn into big mirrors. I spy Jeremy, myself, a bicycle, another kid, palm trees, and clouds....I wish I had a macro!
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Having some fun.
We left Cadiac and headed for PaP a night early, again due to possible violence the next morning. We went to Fredo’s house again. Jeremy and I decided to stay another full day in Haiti. We didn’t have any real plan, we just went out at 5am and came back after dark. We spent the entire time on the city streets of PaP. Unbelievable. I heard around only 5% of the rubble had only been cleaned up. There were so many building just waiting to come crashing down. Regardless how the city looked, I have only positive things to say about the people we met and interacted with. I can honestly say I have never in my life gotten so much attention than I did in Haiti. All because of my tattoos. It actually got to a point I was pretty uncomfortable. I don’t like drawing that kind of attention to myself, esp somewhere foreign to me. Fredo reassured me everything everyone was saying was positive, but still. At times I had groups around me asking about my tattoos. Supposedly tattoos in Haiti are worn by gangsters. Fredo said, “If you were Haitian, they would be scared of you.” However I am just a white kid so they knew I was harmless, hahaha! Most questions were if they were real and if it was my wife! At times I would have to pull out my Iphone to prove they were real. I would show them photos of me getting the tattoo. I met another guy with tattoos and the group he was with wanted to see mine. They kept telling me to take my shirt off, I looked to Jeremy and he was just laughing and smiling. So in the middle of PaP I took my shirt off and posed with a guy for some photos. I felt so incredibly awkward. I felt as though I might as well have been naked. We had a huge crowd watching, laughing, joking. I will say it was a very cool moment overall though.
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154 votesvote as favoriteOne of the most memorable/dumbest things we did was enter the main Cathedral. (Sorry Shannon, sorry Mom.) It looks like some old ancient ruins or something from centuries ago. It is breathtaking. Jeremy and I followed some spiral stairs up to the bell tower. We got to the top where we had to climb up a hole in the floor. As we climb up and step into the room, we both look up. There are two massive church bells just wedges into the building. These bells weigh hundreds of pounds. I felt as though you could hit it with a rock and they would both come crashing down and smash anything in its path. Jeremy and I both idiotically took turns standing directly underneath to get our content and then quickly stepped out. We walked over to the other bell tower where the bell had already fallen and rested quietly in the rubble. We learned that over 120 people were killed in that church they day of the quake. It was pretty powerful sense of emotion being in this building still standing tattered and broken. A place so many people once entered for hope and faith sent 100 people home when she fell.
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153 votesvote as favoriteThese massive bells are simply wedged. Only a matter of time before the crash down.
155 votesvote as favoriteOverall, I had an unforgettable time. What I will remember more is not the devastation, but the drive, the hope, and the passion of the beautiful Haitians. The country has a long long ways to go. The infrastructure, the sanitation, and widespread poverty is worse than anything I have ever seen. Over a million people living in tents with the population in tents rising. I straight watched kids drink from contaminated wells at a local school. The same well I watched animals go drink from. Please continue to support Haiti, whether it’s through good thoughts, prayer, money, or volunteering. They need our help.
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155 votesvote as favoriteContaminated water source for the village. It is on school grounds. Kids drink from it daily.
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Thanks to Katie and everything HOPE International is doing. I am very thankful to have been a witness of the good being done. Jeremy Cowart, thanks for the recommendation and the inspiration. You are an incredible person possessing incredible talent. I am always happy to be around you and proud to call you a good friend. Fredo, thank you so much for rescuing us from a bind and welcoming us into your home. The hospitality you and your family showed us was nothing short of amazing. I hope to see you again soon.
FOR MORE CONTENT
- Several more photos will be launched on my website on my photo galleries as well as my facebook page and tummmmmblr.
- Jeremy fell in love with his Iphone4 on this trip. He did a huge series of photos with it and you’re really going to be shocked. A couple times I was dumbfounded at the results he was getting. Oh well, he is extremely talented so I’ve come to expect nothing less from him. Click HERE to see his Haiti Iphone4 Series.
- There will be some video at a later date. Just don’t know when.
- To learn about HOPE and see how they are involved. CLICK HERE.
Cale Glendening
Hello everyone!
During the 2nd week of my Hawaii trip I began another job with the company “Tower Inspection.” I have been working with them for years. While it is probably the most odd photography gig I do, it is one of my favorite and most thrilling jobs. They were needing a complete media update showcasing they work they do around the world. Working for Tower Inspection has sent me all over. They work on military installations, used for air and sea communications for the Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force. Do to them needing to be near the ocean, once on top of these monstrous towers you have an incredible view. The two towers I worked on in Oahu were 1500 ft, over a quarter mile high. Myself accompanied by 3 or 4 others are hoisted up a small basket to the top. The ride alone was enough to make my stomach churn. The slow ascent, wind dancing the basket side to side, with a look over the edge that will make you swallow your stomach. Once up top we have to rock the basket side to side(using a tow line) so we can get close enough to the tower to rope one of the beams and pull ourselves in. Yes, that made things way worse. One trip up consisted of about 20 minutes, just rocking in and out trying to hook on. Soon as we got to the beam I am pretty sure I hugged onto the tower so I could hold on to some sort of foundation. Oddly enough once I am on the tower shooting, I absolutely love it. It is such a rush just hanging there, by a hook, looking down. On paper it is a simple shoot, in reality it’s one of my most difficult jobs to accomplish. I have two cameras on, my ring-light on a lanyard and my heavy battery packed wrapped over my shoulder, not including all my chords all the lanyards and safety harness gear. Holding the ring light out with one hand and trying to get my shot with the other, having to change settings, and make damn sure I don’t drop anything. All while hanging or balancing on a beam, have to be comfortable with being up that high and not actually holding onto the foundation. Some of the days were rainy or too windy so we had to do some shooting on the ground. Lastly, it’s a bit intimidating coming out and shooting a bunch of steel workers. Not so typical where a photographer comes out and shadows them, shouting over the wind “Look at the camera! Can you move over to the other side of the tower! Say cheeeeese!” I will say every job I’ve worked on with Tower Inspection, the workers I have photographed have been very kind, helpful, and hilarious. Shaking the basket on the way up is not a nice joke on the photographer. Luckily I brought two pair of undies ; ). Thanks guys, I appreciate you working with me and taking time from your busy schedules. I look forward to more jobs with TI in the future. Thanks.
I took several photos, but these were some of my favorite. Enjoy.
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140 votesvote as favoritePanoramic I shot at the end. Composed of 4 photos.
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Hey everyone, it’s been a little while since I have posted what’s going on. Recently I spent over a month in Tennessee working with Jeremy Cowart for a dvd he will be releasing very soon. I went back to LA for a week, shot my first magazine cover, before I left for Oklahoma to shoot a music video for Van Risseghem. I spent two weeks producing and shooting a music video for his single “The River.” This project allowed me to get very creative, it will released later this month. I flew back to LA, after the music video, for about 12 hours before I was on a flight to Hawaii to shoot Chuck and Katie Adame’s wedding. I also contracted another job for Tower Inspection while in Oahu. I am thankful God has been blessing me with work. I can’t thank him enough. Soon there will be tons of content for you guys to see. Photos and Video!
181 votesvote as favoriteThis post I wanted to share with you one of my favorite experiences in a long time. In Hawaii for Chuck and Katie’s wedding we stayed at some condos on the North Shore. What an amazing week with great friends! Chuck, Katie, Dave, Elvira, Red, Eddie, and the great people I met. We pretty much had a long stretch of beautiful beach all to ourselves. While out walking along the beach you notice turtles popping their heads out of the water. I never asked anyone why they come to this beach but I noticed they eat eat eat on the coral and rocks there. The beach gets very few visitors, so that could also be a reason the continue to show up. Anyways, our room had snorkel gear and Chuck had an underwater casing for his little handy Canon camera. I could’ve swam around with those turtles all day long. I probably get more excited for experiences like this then most. I absolutely love creation. Several of my favorite experiences surround the wild and mother nature. All I know is this year I am finally getting my Scuba Cert and underwater housing. Here are a couple photos I snagged.
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185 votesvote as favorite“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much more content coming soon.
Cale Glendening
First I wanted to say sorry to everyone. Things have been as crazy as ever for the past couple months.
I was in 3 car accidents, I got extremely ill for a couple weeks, and work had ceased. All in all, it was just a very difficult time.
I booked a ticket home to Oklahoma just so I could go do some shooting. Needed to get them bills paid!
Well plans never seem to happen the way you plan them.
I got to Oklahoma and then work started pouring in. Jobs in and out of the country have come up. Some are happening, some are not.
Some possibilities with a Television show & some possibilities with some music videos. I have been in Tennessee for a couple weeks now, with a trip to Seattle in between. With all the work coming in, I am seriously debating subletting my apartment in LA. No need to pay for something I am not using. I only packed a weeks worth of clothes and have now been gone a month. It will be at least another week before I am able to go back to LA and other work may keep that from happening.
I have absolutely loved my time here in Nashville. My friends and the people I have met here have made this trip amazing. I have been here working relentlessly with Jeremy Cowart on his upcoming tutorial dvd. I am very excited to wrap this project and get it to you all. I think it’s something that could definitely benefit all photographers.
There are so many things coming up and in the works. I promise to have some more content/updates for you all soon. In the mean time, in Seattle, I took my first jab at shooting “implied nudity.” I am very picky when it comes to this type of work. I wanted to be completely sure of what the final outcome should look like before I even asked my friend to shoot. It was definitely a learning experience. Here is my favorite.
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After almost 1 year, Joey spent last week losing sleep over editing this short doc. The result is a 17 minute piece over our journey with The Mentawai. The video seriously just zooms by. There is insight on our trip, the people, the culture, and some shooting with Joey. It is seriously a trip that I still can’t believe happened. There is so much more that went on but we will save that for next time. Joey, Will, and I are all wanting to venture back there soon and do something more in depth.
I am so pumped Vimeo “premiered” it on their HD page! It’s my first video they have picked to premier, so thank you Vimeo! It helped the 17 min video get near 20k plays in just 3 days of being online! Check it out sometime when you guys get a chance.
Earlier this year I posted a video of just visuals from the trip. Video below.
If you would like to read up in depth about the entire trip, with tons of photos, click the links below.
Thanks again Joey and Will. Trip of a lifetime. Can’t wait to do it again.
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
- St. Augustine
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Long story short.
India got postponed! Joey landed a big job the day I arrived. We thought the job might be far enough off to go to India first, so we waited around to find out. However the news came and we would not be going to India. Hanging with Ryan and Joey was good times though. Got to swim in the ocean, meet some awesome people, see the world’s tallest building, and the worlds biggest mall. Seriously, their mall was ridiculous. We walked around where the trade vessels come in. We met some merchants from Iran and they gave us a tour of the boat and then asked us if we would like to go to Iran that day. We passed. Dubai is seriously one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen. The architecture was something out of the future. From the airport to the subway to the mall. Everything was so precise and made of granite and marble. Unreal. EVERYTHING is in some sort of construction. Although our plans didn’t work out how I had wanted, I am thankful to have spent time in Dubai. I definitely tried to make the most out of the trip. Got some good footage from the city.
I got to meet Ryan McCarney, he travels with Joey on several of his trips. All I can say is very solid funny guy. Another awesome Canadian I have become friends with. Ryan and I were at an arcade one night and just destroyed some kids. Go Orange Team! No, I don’t feel bad they were only 10. A couple times when we were walking around we got asked if our tattoos were stickers. Oh those crazy folks.
Back now and time to put together my first reel. A lot of things coming up, very very excited. Will keep you all posted.
Good luck with your campaign there Joey. Be safe bud.
Enjoy the pics.
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Let me first briefly explain what these tower jobs are. I always get asked, “Tower jobs? What?” I would love to simply clear it up for everyone who has been asking. It starts back when I was living in Muskogee, Oklahoma. A man named Gary owned a local photo/print shop as well as President to a company called “Tower Inspection.” I printed all my work at his shop so we quickly became aquatinted. He enjoyed my work so he asked if I would be interested in documenting projects here and there that TI was involved with. Initially, I thought….”What a random job.” However I came to soon fall in love with it. I had to get tower certified so I could climb these towers and photograph the employees on and around the towers. I have mixed emotions about heights. Sometimes it freaks me out, where as others I am absolutely loving it. I only went on my first roller-coaster ride in 15 years, this past year, when I was succumbed to peer pressure from the great dudes in Relient K. I even got nervous when I did my tower climb test. The tower was only like 50ft. It is weird just hanging off and letting the wind move you, nothing below your feet.
In Guam we stayed at the OKA towers, which had an amazing view all the way around. The balcony wrapped halfway around the 14th floor. It was unbelievable. Some pics of the building.
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Anyways, here are some photos from Hawaii and Guam. The locations were, again, absolutely gorgeous. The tower sites are always in beautiful places around the world. No photos of the towers yet, however here are some random photos from the trip. Wish the internet could do panoramics some justice. Each one is MASSIVE. Can’t wait to print some of them off.
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Thankful, thankful, thankful, extremely thankful every single day. I can’t stress that enough.
Tower photos coming soon. Many more posts soon too.
Hope everyone is well,
Cale Glendening
