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SmugMug > keywords > workers > November 8, 2009 Daily Photo.

Hanging around.

These workers were dangling about 20 stories above ground at the W Hotel in Hoboken.

I have no idea what they were doing. Perhaps window washing, but I don't know. I watched them for about 5 minutes to see if they were in trouble or not, but I couldn't tell. One kept pushing a stick against the wall to push himself out further and swing closer to the building. The other one did nothing.
SmugMug > keywords > workers > Hawaii 2009 photo
SmugMug > keywords > workers > Hawaii 2009 photo
SmugMug > keywords > workers > Shipyard workers (Tromso, Norway)
SmugMug > keywords > workers > Lasius (Acanthomyops) californicus citronella ants with their underground "cattle": mealybugs that produce honeydew.  

Mojave National Preserve, California, USA
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Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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Captive colony at the California Academy of Sciences
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Urbana, Illinois, USA
Hawaii 2009 photo
Photo by: neilevans • see photo in gallery

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