[Sasquatch]

Some nice shots my friend Kelsey took in Hatcher Pass, AK

[BB]

Yes - Aaron , Yes V5. Well known sandbag should be a 6 really.

I'll go along with that!

[BB]

Evening session at sissy...
Full set on JP's Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/7535382@N05/


IMG_8619 by jamesperry1, on Flickr


IMG_8745 by jamesperry1, on Flickr


IMG_8550 by jamesperry1, on Flickr

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Tomoko Ogawa on Catharsis, 8B+

[tomtom]

Nai at Cratcliffe this afternoon:

[Baldy]

Not sure whether this is 'quality' or not due to the blurring on the left?
Is this accepted photographic practice, or bad taste?

[Fiend]

Very bad taste. Ugly distracting and pointless.

[tomtom]

Not sure whether this is 'quality' or not due to the blurring on the left?
Is this accepted photographic practice, or bad taste?

If it were in a guide book - with text over the blurring then it would work really really well.. but as a stand alone photo I think it detracts... soz..

[Baldy]

Not my photo, so no worries.

I was just interested, because at first glance I thought it was terrific...
Then I saw the blurring and consciously decided that the photo was bad.
This felt wrong to me - surely if I thought it was good before I noticed the blurring, it is a good photo?
Or is the fact that I noticed the editing the very giveaway that it is bad?

I also noticed that on the LT11 film Abyss recently, whoever was in charge of post production also did that to some of the shots, which again - looked good and worked, right up until I noticed it and thought he was 'cheating' in some way.

[andy_e]

If it was proper depth-of-field blur it would probably look much better but as things have about the same amount of blur no matter how far from the camera are on the left of the photo and there is no blur on the trees in the background on the right mean it looks a bit slapdash and rubbish. What's the problem though? That looks good.

[r-man]

El sueno de eolo, 7C

Apparently there is a new guide for bouldering in Galicia (northern Spain)
 INFO HERE (scroll down for English)

Please remember that the guide has 336 pages in full color. Includes the best areas of northern Galicia: Corme, Mens, Costa da Morte, Ferrol, A Coruña, Barredo, Xistral, Portomarín, with about 2000 lines outlined blocks. One of the best boulder areas in Spain.

Anybody been?

[iwasmexican]

wow

[Duma]

Looks like pretty brutal granite, but what a line! Not been, but there was a fairly long vid of Galicia bouldering in one of the vid threads not too long back...

[slackline]

Somewhere in Mexico...

[r-man]

Looks like Penoles, touted as the next Hueco.

http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/10077-penoles-mexican-boulder-area

http://www.dpmclimbing.com/articles/view/next-hueco

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Sean McColl Stained Glass (V10) Bishop

[r-man]

More on Penoles from Nalle

Peñoles is geologically a lot like Hueco; a mountain of boulders in the middle of the desert. Also the rock in many places is similar to Hueco, but that’s pretty much all these places have in common. There are no restrictions of Hueco, no entrance fees, no waiting in line, no back-country guides needed. You can camp by the boulders and go climbing whenever you want without getting a permission from anyone.

The rock seems to be made for hard boulders. While there are great problems and projects for all grades, what really strikes my eye is the amount of hard projects in the v14 - v17? (8B+ to 9A) range. It is very rare to find these lines that are really hard but still possible and I don’t think I’ve never seen so many of them anywhere else in the world.

[Wipey Why]

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Roser Giralt in Pearl 7C, La Pedriza

[Johnny Brown]

Roser Giralt in Pearl 7C, La Pedriza

That video's dynamite!

[Wipey Why]

Vanessa Tocatjian v9 #3 by click59, on Flickr


Vanessa Tocatjian // v9 #2 by click59, on Flickr


Vanessa Tocatjian // v9 by click59, on Flickr

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Nalle Hukkataival, Off The Wagon (8C) by Stefan Schlumpf...

[standard]

didn't realise it was that steep.

[a dense loner]

It's in switzerland