[LargeFormat] 65mm SA

[Pete Caluori]

Interesting Les.  Before moving to Colorado, I lived in NYC where I did 
Satellite Data Communication.  Doing that work, I often had to access the 
roof of many of NY's skyscrapers.  Yes, it's a nice view from up there, but 
it could also be challenging.  Once I was alone on the roof when the wind 
blew over the ladder I had used to get on top of the tallest structure.

Regards,  Pete

>From: Les Newcomer <lnphoto@ismi.net>
>
>Pete Caluori wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Les, I don't envy you your work.  Nice picture of the sewer!  Do you get
> > hazardous pay for your efforts?  I think I'll take my chances 
>photographing
> > during lightning storms.:)
> >
>
>Shocking! just shocking!   :-)
>
>
>Yeah I have to say this was my worst job in terms of the environment.
>Luckily I"ve been able to stay on the clean side of the department most
>of the time.  My lastest job is photographing meter pits-- effectively
>an underground chamber about the size of a typical tract house basement
>full of large pipes and a very large water meter. These are on the
>borders between cities so the Detroit water department can bill each
>city for the water they used. The city is rehabbing the chambers,
>installing better meters and automating the data (each of these has a
>cell phone so DWSD can call each and download the data)
>
>After the 10th pit, it's boring work, but there are 270 of these pits
>they want 10 pre construction photos and 12 post construction of each
>pit and from each photo they want 3 prints and a slide.  At $12 a print
>and $3 a slide I can't say it's not profitable, particlulary when we get
>a good day and shoot 10 pits. With the extra photos I figure this job
>will top out at 7000 shots, 21,000 prints. I keep tell them they are
>going to have to add the Les Newcomer wing to the water board building
>just to hold all the binders.
>
>The rest of the work I do is construction, it's a lot of fun, getting to
>run around on a construction site. I've gotten to fly in helicopters,
>ride in buckets of back hoes, and once they swung me out on a crane
>about 500 feet above Woodward Ave, so I can shoot back onto the building
>during the topping out ceremony.
>
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