A Few Photos

Living in BC and going to school full time has meant less climbing for me lately. A change, but not necessarily a negative one as I am really enjoying school. I do wish that I had more time for things like taking pictures and climbing, but I suppose its impossible to have everything.

I have made it out to Squamish a few times, and the Forest is a great place for climbing photography. I’ll be trying to publish the best shots, but here are some of the ohter pictures.

Trade Show Madness

After spending four days stuck inside the Salt Palace, and then two days in a car, I’m happy to say that I’ve arrived in Vancouver. The trade show was very fun at first - seeing friends and meeting with climbing companies - but after a while, the whole thing was a bit wearing.

One of my photos of Paul Robinson is being used in a Five Ten advertising campaign, so it was fun to see it in a large size

I ended up shooting the Mammut competition, mostly just for the practice, because anyone needing photos from it already had a photographer there. Here are some of my shots from that:

After the trade show, my girlfriend Sam and I drove up to Idaho to stop at the Warpath roof. There are several really nice steep problems on the roof, and I’d like to go back at some point. The next day, we drove up to Seattle and ended up doing a bit of bolt clipping with old friends Kelly Sheridan and Kyle Omera.

Now we’re off to Squamish for a few weeks before school starts. The weather is nice here (but a little warm) so I hope to get a lot of climbing and photos in before the winter rains come.

Two Sequences and a Link

I stumbled on this media site and ended up spending several hours watching the films. I highly recomend checking it out: http://mediastorm.org/

Last weekend I took a few photos of the sending in Chaos Canyon - here are the sequences of Andre DiFelice doing Friday the 13th V10 and Brian Camp finishing Riddles in the Park V12.

(Click for the larger version)

The Hallet Boulder

Jamie Emerson working on Bring The Ruckus V11, Tyndal Gorge, RMNP.

I am really trying to learn this off camera lighting stuff - and I’d like to get rid of the artificial look that this photo has. I like that I can balance the climber with the background, but I need to figure out a way to make it look more natural. Hopefully my next photos accomplish this a little better.

My knee…

Just when I was starting to feel strong again, my knee made a very loud and disturbing pop. I suppose it was bound to happen sometime given the amount of heel hooking I do, and thankfully its not super severe.  But, I’ll be taking it easy for a while, staying away from heel hooks and wearing the brace when I climb. Maybe I’ll just spend more time taking pictures!

Speaking of which, I made this little light tent the other day to take some pictures for a little shoe review I’m doing. Its super easy to make and great if you need photos of small objects - a must if you sell things on ebay.

A Picture and a Quote

I spent Saturday up in the Park climbing with Phil on European Human Being. Phil got extremely close many times by falling off the last move, and I think he will send it next time. I took this photo by bouncing a flash off the snow to throw some soft light on the problem.

Later in the day, we were almost run over by an absent minded tourist. A guy standing nearby said this:

“I work in the Park and the problem isn’t the wildlife. The real wildlife is behind the wheel”

I think anyone who has ever driven through Estes can appreciate this.

Camp’s Nemesis

Brian Camp had a great day on Saturday by finishing off his long term project, Left El Jorge. I snapped this photo right before the send.

Thanks Pinto!

This spring I had an awesome trip to Europe with Jason Pinto, Angie Payne, and Jamie Emerson. Jason bought us all these sweet sweatshirts as souvenirs. I think we all miss Ticino a lot!

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