climb like a girl

[Lateralus]

A good start to a pretentious coffee table book. Although the one with the head poking out of the water was comedy gold, probably would work better in a televangelist brochure.

[Wes]

I think they are nice photos, but that they don't really show anything that is special about climbing. I mean, you could have taken any athletic female and gotten 95% of those shots. So, I would have liked to have seen more "action" type photos of these athletes, along with the nice, arty posed B/W stuff.

I saw the guy shooting at Hound Ear's, and you could tell he was not going to be getting the good, standard climbing photos. He had a tripod, film SLR's and and assistant that would blow the dust of the lens before each shoot, whilst blinding everyone that was climbing nearby with a big reflector. Pretty much seemed to not care that there was a comp with other people going on around him.

[Mazz]

Although teh one with teh head poking out of teh water was comedy gold, probably would work better in a televangelist brochure.

The one with Steph Davis in the Merced was the only one I really liked. I thought the reflection of El Capitan was a really good vehicle to portray having one's life immersed in climbing - and that cliff in particular.

[Lateralus]

Well that's one of t h e nice things about "art" I guess.
One person's garbage another person's treasure

[dmw]

oh no this is going to turn into another art car fight isn't it?

[Mazz]

It might if I knew what you were talking about.

[TankAzz]

amen to the photographer comments, wes! (i actually almost topped out right into the reflector, which is what pissed the guy off... remember those slab climbs that top out behind fuc yo? that's where i popped out, and the guy didn't understand what was going on).