Stunning Window Cleaning Images

The shadow of a window cleaner is seen on a bulding in Buenos Aires. Click to enlarge.

Political window cleaning.

Some kind of superhero? Man on a ledge in Chicago - Michael Kelly gets high for a living. He documents it for free. As a window-washer supervisor with Corporate Cleaning Services, the 32-year-old has an all-access pass to top-down, vertigo-inducing views on a daily basis. Lucky for us, he brings his camera, fitted with a wide-angle lens to capture the full breadth of the Chicago skyline. “Washing 500 windows every day, I started feeling like I was just a janitor.

The Austin car in the foreground with trailer and window cleaning ladders belonged to George Kerry. Kings Lynn, Norfolk, circa 1960. Click to enlarge.

Envelope for a window cleaner - clever.

Forget the water fed pole. Just get a giraffe.

Window cleaners, no date or location given. Check out the guy in the background. Click to enlarge.

Window cleaners at work at BBC headquarters Bush House in the Strand, London, March 1931. Click to enlarge.

During WW1 and WW2 women really had to work all the jobs normally considered for men only. Here we have two ladies on window cleaning duties, don't they look happy? It's almost a reservoir dogs type photo/walk. Click to enlarge.

Henderson Window Cleaning – Vegas.

Women window cleaners, Berlin 1900.

Window washer Boston. Patrick Lentz photography.

The economy has been hard on everyone.

Kelvin Ramirez of Columbus’ Globe Window Cleaning dangles from a wall at Ohio Stadium to power wash the outside of the north end. The cleaning yesterday marked the stadium’s first good scrubbing since its renovation in 2001. Click to enlarge.

We all know it's his day-job.

Window cleaners on the facade of a skyscraper. United States, 1941. Click to enlarge.

Window washers at work at the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, Australia. Since entry fees were scrapped last month people have flocked to the Botanic Gardens icon with more than 12,000 people pouring through its doors. Click to enlarge.

A window washer is seen through a downtown Toronto office window Monday, May 7, 2012. The photo was shot with a fish-eye lens giving an extreme field of view on an iPhone camera.

Wynand cleans windows on sky-rise buildings in Melbourne. Click to enlarge.

 KC Maple shares vertigo-inducing stories in Toronto... “Peregrine falcons. They live at Yonge and Eglinton,” says high-rise window cleaner KC Maple as casually as one might mention acquaintances who live uptown. “Every time we go there, they dive-bomb at us. And they’ll take turns.” And what do you do when you’re hanging outside of a building, hundreds of feet above ground, and are targeted by falcons? “I work faster than my partner so they bug him,” he offers, nibbling at his ceviche.

Shares of Facebook lost $1.25, or 4.5%, to $26.95 in midday trading Thursday. It traded as low as $26.83. Click to enlarge.

Jason Lochridge, a window cleaner in Boise Idaho had this tattoo. Click to enlarge.

A window washer is seen through a downtown Toronto office window. The photo was shot with a fish-eye lens giving an extreme field of view on an iPhone camera.

One of a handful of grids containing shots of Toronto's dead stores that Cummins has photographed across the city, he says the building at 125 Sherbourne St. is his favourite. “It’s so dead now that it’s covered over in aluminum siding from sidewalk to roofline. There’s no windows, no doors. It’s so eradicated, it’s amazing,” he explains. “The last business that was in there was called World Wide Window Cleaning. It went from being something that keeps your windows clean to something that doesn’t have any windows.”