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Spotlight Buddha and I teamed up (along with another) for an interesting time - one night, two sites (stay tuned for the derelicts of St. James town).
This is how we ended the night: we climbed every step of this thing. All 50 floors of a(n admittedly short) skyscraper, still under construction. It took us about 1.5 hours to get up - in large part because we took time to go and explore the building while we were at it.
For the most part, the lower floors are uninteresting: condo apartments being put together, but I'd love to go back and do some more photo work at those windows.
After floor 30 though, the place becomes a playground: wide-open spaces, the grit and grime of unfinished structures.
The views from the roof were pretty good, unspoiled by other skyscrapers getting in the way. It's a great place to take pics of the city, if you've got better camera gear than I have.
** never use the gallery builder. Ever.
1: Elevator shaft, seen from B1
2: Somewhere between floors 10 and 20, a decent look out the windows.
3: I like fresh copper, 'nuff said.
4: Looking down from an open balcony, somewhere around the 30th floor
5: View south
6: view north
7: We should've turned back at that point, but didn't.
8: Floor 48 is the last one that was marked.
9: One of us perched with the city spread below (somewhere around floor 40 I think)
10: The base of the crane from across the roof
11: View of the city lights from across the roof
12: The crane!
13: This is how skyscrapers are built - that thing is holding tonnes of concrete.
14: this way out.
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Weeeeee
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Hooray for being a noobster - the gallery uploader is taking awhile, it's only accepting one photo at a time.
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Oh my god.
After some near-despair and mild panic, I remembered how HTML works.
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These are great shots Stick! Really did the site justice.
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I hate pop ups. Fixed it for you.
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No shots from the crane???
Zen and the art of infiltration...
http://www.flikr.com/photos/zenslens
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Honestly I was sorely tempted - if it had been just spot and I it might've been different. Alas my lover is afraid of heights and seeing me go up that crane would have driven him mad.
(a sorry excuse - the truth is that my flesh-meat is soft and weak. I couldn't do it at that hour, after the stairs and a party the night before.)
But seriously zen, I'll rise to the challenge and re-visit the site if you want to climb the crane together!
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Great stuff !
The title of this thread reminded me of something you may have well intended:
https://www.youtub...atch?v=ryRo35P_ACc
It even kinda 'feels like the view' when you're on top : )
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Your photos are way too good for the stupid "pop up" feature. 
Thanks Rob for fixing it.
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Sorry guys, I'm still new here (and, apparently, the whole gallery uploader thing isn't that great).
I'm not a photographer, but it's easy to take decent photos with opportunity like that.
But I'm serious about the crane - anyone want to tackle that this week?
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I understand & accept the rule against posting locations, and I don't plan to advertise this one openly. Normally I wouldn't be so 'hell-yeah!' about sharing with others but this is a construction site. It's going to be closed up and open for business fairly soon, so I don't feel too inhibited about revisiting it with another crew. Just thought I'd clarify that - in my mind, things going up are in a different category than things falling down.
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Great work on this one, and welcome to the site!!!!
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