Oh my. Yes, the raw untouched photos - with all safety equipment showing - activate a completely different part of my brain. Now I
know these are real people, really leaning over the edge of a skyscraper.
It was a bit like seeing the Mission Impossible movie and admiring the great CGI that made it look like Tom Cruise was swinging from a rope off the side of the Burj Khalifa, and then seeing the "making of" video and realizing he was swinging from that rope.
