[Carnage]

Heres one of mine from the Weekend. Matt Kelly ticking Magneto at the Promised Land. This place is a huge find in North Sydney and has vast numbers of boulders with some classic stuff. We've done maybe 30-40 problems already and its only the tip of the iceberg.

[philo]

looks like nice rock that!

[Blunk]

Love the first 3 pics on this page, wish I could link to them directly:

http://blimpbouldering.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-11-16T06%3A42%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

Click on them to get larger versions.

(Now Cofe replies, "No, click on THIS to get a larger version")

[cofe]

done for you blunk (click for larger versions).     looks hard.

[uptown]

There's a particularly good shot of one of the planets best v6s here:
http://ukclimbing.lg1x8.simplecdn.net/i/114309.jpg

Seeing as we can only link to it - here's my take on it:

[BenF]

There's a particularly good shot of one of the planets best v6s here:

Yes indeed.  Ocean is a brilliant problem.  I stupidly never got a photo of it when I was living out there, so thanks for finding/supplying those.

[Fiend]

I never tried it It does look brilliant, as "Castle Hill" as it comes.

[Blunk]

Thanks Cofe.

[SA Chris]

I never tried it It does look brilliant, as "Castle Hill" as it comes.

Me neither. Looks like a good reason to go back. I tried to find it for a while, but kept getting sidetracked.

[slackline]

Tyler Landman sends Veritas in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

[SA Chris]

http://www.chalkjunkie.at/climbing/index.html

Some nice pics here, including some DFBWGC, but I con't figure out how to link to them

 

[Jaspersharpe]

Screen grab! 

[hongkongstuey]

I never tried it It does look brilliant, as "Castle Hill" as it comes.

a couple more pics of it here:

[rginns]

Quality. I want to be there!

[account_inactive]

Quick on from Dobbin's Swiss hom do.  Great shot of Saltbeef doing his most muscular

[monkey boy]

He looks like a tiny man!!



I like this one personally! Jims head seems to have been eaten by a doctors arse!

[slackline]

Some good shots there dobbin.

More of NZ from Derek Thatcher...

[clm]

He looks like a tiny man!!



I like this one personally! Jims head seems to have been eaten by a doctors arse!

More likely Jim trying to eat a doctors arse.  put a bit of bbq sauce on and hell eat owt.

[saltbeef]

sexy time!    

[slackline]

Some great Pictures of the Month for the man Sharples (not all climbing)....

[dave]

Some great Pictures of the Month for the man Sharples (not all climbing)....

I'm sure he's used flash somewhere for this photo but i'm dammed if i know where he hid it.

[slackline]

I'm sure he's used flash somewhere for this photo but i'm dammed if i know where he hid it.

From the blog (although no clue as to where, but confirms the remote use of SB800)...

Commentary:

Going rock climbing at night-time in winter when there’s a foot of snow on the deck isn’t everyone idea of a great time – but we seem to like it! Leaving Sheffield late afternoon Paul and I caught the dregs of the daylight; not that we were bothered for we were out for the evening with the lamps. Temps in the car-park were around minus 2 with a slight breeze; cool you might say! Secret Garden was in awesome condition when we arrived, dry and sheltered; perfect!

 

By mid evening the scene was surreal; it was just begging to be captured. Although I’d been climbing all evening my fingers were frozen solid after seconds of handling the tripod, the camera and flashgun. The lighting arrangement was complex; a remote SB800 fired wirelessly from the D300 in commander mode with additional lighting from a lantern and a head-touch! The snow on the ground bounced light about as well and in the back ground an ethereal glow (light pollution) emanated from Sheffield. Not a standard lighting arrangement – certainly not one that you’d see in any text book.

 

With the ISO cranked up to 800 and with the manual focus set camera-side of Paul, I fired off shots when Paul’s movement was at a minimum. The featured image has just the hint of motion blur in Paul’s foot which I figure adds another angle to the shot. The lighting though makes the shot more than a bit different though especially with the mix of ambient light with that from the strobe and the torch light.

 

Capture Notes:

Nikon D300, 12-24mmAFS f4G, 1/2.5sec @ f4, ISO 800, manual focus, slow sync flash, 1 remote SB800 in Group A @ +1EV triggered from D300 in Commander and with additional lighting from a lantern and a head-touch!

[dave]

I think your sarcasm filter threshold needs tweaking.

[slackline]

I think your sarcasm filter threshold needs tweaking.

Ah, yes I get you now. 

In my defence I have spent all day yesterday and this morning installing Linux on my PS3* and writing up how I've done it.  As a consequence I've lost all sense of irony, humor, sarcasm and wit and am still stuck in geek mode where everything I read/write is to be interpreted literally.

* Would have got it all done yesterday if I'd been using an install CD that is known to actually work! 

[GCW]

* Would have got it all done yesterday if I'd been using an install CD operating system that is known to actually work!