Start: At the back of the cave, just left of Its about 22.
Fabulous chossy roof pumping! Follow the line of ring bolts towards the Harbour Bridge. Either lower off the fixed carabiner (scoring a grade 21), or continue up as for its about 22 (and give yourself a 22).
Yeah I wish I was good enough to climb it, and that you still were allowed to do so! The sudden re-interest in climbing is partly my fault and partly Rob and Amys fault. Rob is a really good climber, even if he says he is rusty. Both of them are forcing me to challenge myself when climbing. I find I'm doing harder more technical routes than when I was climbing with lemming in the UK. With Rob and Amy, its a real challenge. Both of them push you to your limits. They have been both climbing far longer than me, so I'm playing catch-up now.
Is climbfit as technical as the The Castle, I just don't know. I do miss not knowing the exact grade climb that I'm doing (The castle has every route graded and marked). It's also not as big, but boy is it fun. What I really want to do is to be good enough to start climbing outside. The above photo is a classic Sydney route that you are not allowed to climb any more. We got to see it on Christmas day. God it looks awesome! You stare at it and want to just try it. You can see the old chalkmarks which are now ingrained into the rock. It's simply beautiful. Oh well, maybe one day they'll remove the ban on this piece of rock.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
clocks:10m:22
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
boxing:day:bounce
Well, boxing day was great fun:
Punch
The best sausages on the planet
Croquet
More food
oh and trampoline fun!
Thanks go out to everyone that helped us through this festive season away from family. It was a very different affair, but was very enjoyable all the same!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
christmas:nights
It still seems strange to me not being in the UK for Christmas. I still can't get used it and sometimes its feeling a bit bleak here. Then again, friends have helped a lot to get us into the Christmas spirit. Hmm Gingerbread..
Monday, December 04, 2006
my:obsessions:are:only:skin:deep
SPB Nov Competition Entry
Subject and Technical: Secret/Obsession + Light/Exposure
Somehow, I managed to win this months entry; who knows why as there are some fantastic entries. I was chuffed anyway, and it was another excuse to play with the off camera flash stuff. Had another chance to play with that too last night and found out that one of the remotes only syncs at a really slow speed. As much as I want pocket wizards I can't afford them yet.
More off camera flash work to come.
Lighting setup -
430ex to camera right on a stand set to 1/64 @ 105mm, pointing down to gold reflector so bounce was off the wall and onto the shoulder.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
swiss:chocolate
I was supported a customer and to cut a long story short, the customer said I was right again, and that he owed me some Swiss Chocolate... Came in the post today... Swiss chocolate with Hazelnuts.
Plus I thought I'd try some off camera flash work.
Camera Left: remote Flash at 80mm 1/64 about 0.70m from chocolate. Head at 20 deg angle from the horizontal, flash body resting on table.
Camera Right: Gold reflector to get the back of the chocolate
Camera: 1/200 F5.6 100iso
Friday, November 17, 2006
credits:0
Sometimes you just need to get out with friends and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere. It was all good even if we lost all our credits.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
from:the:car
Shot from out of the car window on the way to Hill End, Australia
This was from a road trip to a old Gold Mining town called Hill End. Very dusty, hot and full of flies. The rest of the photos can be found here
Monday, November 06, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Lazy Susan
Best seen Large
From the Sydney CD launch at the Manning Bar.
Check em out, they were great!
Lazy Susan
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Sunday, September 03, 2006
fallen
Fallen graves at Rookwood. There are over 1million bodies burried there. Some of the gaves are overrun, others fresh... Some graves date back before 1820 something.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
6:6:shoeshine
The homeless shoe shiner on pitt street.
I asked if I could take his photo and he said yes.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
this:is:my:truth
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
6:6:carousel:ride
6:6:carousel:ride
Originally uploaded by monkey_pushover_tree.
Taken with a Halina A1 TLR using lucky 100iso film.
Developed using D76 for 6.30 secs @ 20C
120 format.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Friday, June 02, 2006
inner:demons
inner:demons
Originally uploaded by monkey_pushover_tree.
Sometimes Demons get the better of us; this is not my inner:demon but it could look like this creeping from out of the darkness.
