Steve,
I enjoy your photos on this site and your website. You really show that "one picture is worth a thousand words".
However, I would like to know how you do it. Do you have a finger happy photographer follow you around everywhere or are they all shot using the camera delay function?
If the later as I suspect, I really admire your dedication. That latest shot on your website where you are repairing your roof (still / again) if not done by someone else must have entailed
1) climbing a ladder
2) setting up the camera,
3) climbing down the ladder,
4) climbing a second ladder,
5) striking the pose and holding it until the camera clicks
6) climbing down the ladder
7) climbing up the other ladder to retrieve the camera.
However you do it, thank you, your photos are much admired and very much appreciated.
It's here: http://dauntlessgeezer.com/blog812.html
Steve takes the credit but his trusty dog is the the photographer. I'm sorry Steve but the truth had to come out sometime. But you can take credit for training him.
Actually, Daisy is one of the few dogs who I've seen climb a tree. That tree in the sunny background in the left picture is a big mulberry with a trunk that leans about 45ยบ, and sometimes she runs up on it and stands there to survey her domain. So far, though, she hasn't showed much interest in photography, so I'm on my own with a self timer. In the specific case of these two pictures, yes they did involve ladder climbing, but mainly just getting up to the roof to work. In the left one, looking north, the camera is on a tripod on the front porch roof. What you don't see is the 2x12 board on sawhorses out of view below. It was a simple thing to step up on it and then onto the scaffold. In the right picture, looking west, the camera is on the roof. For some perspective on how the views relate, the box above the window (for broken shingles) is in both of them. This picture that everybody has seen shows you the porch.
That's a great picture in the front there, very nice.