Vitaliy Raskalov, Hong Kong

Maybe it's because I just came across the 10,000th social media selfie I've seen this month that's making me snap. It was another of those inane pics taken in the safe confines of a bar that looks like every other, so I burned the morning looking for more dangerously-shot selfies. In particular the famous ones I'd seen those Russian maniacs shooting high up in the Dubai sky.

Alexandr Remnev, Dubai

Alexandr Remnev, Dubai

As I clicked through the work of Alexandr Remnev, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov, I couldn't help but pull my faves from their (primarly non-selfie) archives. Not just from Dubai, but from Shanghai and Hong Kong, that particular trio of cities being the most photogenic from high up. These guys may be in their twenties, and they may be crazy, but usually when you say to a kid "It's just a matter of time before you wind up dead or in jail," it's not SLRs they're toting around. So my hat's off to these spider-climbing psychopaths, whom I hope have never shot a selfie indoors and below 1,000 feet.

Vadim Makhorov, Hong Kong

Vitaliy Raskalov, Shanghai

Vadim Makhorov, Shanghai

Alexandr Remnev, Dubai

Vadim Makhorov, Dubai

Vadim Makhorov, Hong Kong

Vadim Makhorov, Shanghai

Vadim Makhorov, Dubai

Vadim Makhorov, Dubai

Alexandr Remnev, Dubai

Vitaliy Raskalov, Shanghai