nature inspires me wherever I go. It’s my life support! this is on the walk to the bus stop.
At the very north end of the Grampians the major ranges covered with trees give way to rocky bluffs, caves and some of the best rock climbing anywhere in Australia. Summery Day valley is the ‘entry level’ location here – it’s a series of beautiful cliffs in a horse shoe arena. Always a spot in the sun, always a spot in the shade, 30min walk up to a great camping / sunset spot. Just writing about it makes me long to be there.
My latest Painting oil on canvas 102×76 cm / super won a wonderful prize with this recently. / Passion is camping in this magnificiet national park, painting scenes en plein air watching the kangaroos and emus, .birds just strolling and flying about, nice hot sunny days, relaxing in a caravan at lunch with a hot coffee and luch cooked on the bbq ’s supplied at the park.passion! / Happy to be alive and well enough to travel to see the magnifcient australian bush
Rock climbing in the mountains of the Eastern Cape in South Africa
“The air that was rushing into my lungs was icy cold. The climb to the top was slow and exhausting. I hitched my backpack over my shoulder trying to ease the weight somewhat. As we reached the summit I knew with one glance that it was all worth it….........” / Macro photograph from a rock! /
An old cabin by the Lofoten mountains captured in spring. Thank you for stopping by for a wee look and for whatever feedback you may wish to leave. :-) / Andreas Stridsberg / www.mystic-pic.com
Stanage Edge in Derbyshire is the longest gritstone edge in England at 3.5 miles in length and is a popular haunt for rock climbers like the chap featured here! / The weather (and the light) can change quickly in this region, so I was lucky to have a brief spell of good light on this otherwise dull day. Featured in DSLR User Only group. March 2009 Best viewed large Nikon D80, 18-135mm Nikkor
A climber packs up his gear after completing a climb on Curbar Edge, in Derbyshire’s Peak District National Park, UK. Featured in ‘Derbyshire’ group Nikon D80, 10-20mm Sigma
Hardcore rock climber
©2007-2008 Aimee Stewart, Foxfires – please see my CC Terms of Use before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use http://foxfires.deviantart.com/journal/6266450/ / (Please do not repost this on Photobucket or Flickr!) / —-—-—-—-——- If you listen close, you can hear the leaves of the tree whispering fables to the fox as dusk closes in…. Credits: / —-—-— / Fox: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/943363 / Tree: Dreamstime #800828 / All else: My own
About The last sunrise of 2008! Taken at Burleigh Heads, Queensland. This was the first time for me there and Lance. It’s a sweet spot and looks fantastic for Sunset also. Climbing down to the the rocks is a little tricky though, rather slippery but no match for my Keen’s! I was sitting on a rock when I took this. The interesting thing is the surfers – they just jump across the rocks in bare feet! There was a large group of them later in the surf with an purple flare – I assume to signal the end of 2008! - ISO 100, f11, 21 sec, 10mm / - Sigma 10-20mm Lens / - Tripod with sand in the joints Processing - HDR using Photomatix (2, 0, 2) / Unsharp mask / - Soft Light Layer / - Dodging and burning to bring out the rocks a bit more / - Noise Ninja in Photoshop to remove excess noise / - Horizon straighten and resulting crop
Original design by Anna Nelson. If your needs are different, let me know what they are.
I got this Idéa from a climbing movie I just saw,
Mountain goat rock climbing, products are created using a razor sharp image and large file size. Beautiful T-shirts with different colors and styles are also available with this image: Mountaing Goat on the Edge T-shirt Calendars Too: Calendar Gallery Location: Glacier National Park
A group of climbers on Stanage Edge in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Featured in the ‘Postcard Style’ group Nikon D80. Nikkor 18-135mm
As a keen rock-climber Mt Bishop has always held a slightly mythical fascination for me. Rock-climbers have named the giant tor on its peak ‘whale rock’ and the thinner of the two cracks on its left hand side has a classic grade 21 rock climb up it called ‘Cachalot’ which was the first significant free climb route completed at the Prom in 1977. I haven’t actually climbed it but some lines are just so bold and perfect that they just seem to capture the imagination. On a purely aesthetic level I find its combination of granite slabs, tors and vegetation very striking and due to its sentinel like presence guarding the road approach to Tidal River, it is a mountain that every Prom visitor is familiar with. For many the sight of it signifies the moment when you know you’ve returned to the magical place that is the Prom. Mt Bishop was named after Captain Charles Bishop a business partner of George Bass who commenced decimating the seal population in 1799 a year after Bass was the first European to visit the Prom. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
Done in Chinese Wrinke Art, in watercolor / Put into Photoshop to sign /
cycling season is over for me, so there’s more time to head up into the mountains and enjoy the Austrian landscape… so I went for a hike yesterday in the area around Kühtai (Tirol’s highest village at 2.020m) and headed up towards Gaiskogel (2.820m). / it’s not really a hard climb, the first 500m up are fairly easy as the lead along a skiing-slope. only the last part is getting a bit more strenuous, as one has to climb up a steep boulder field. this brings you to the so called Gaiskogelscharte (2.658m) and from there it’s a short way to the Gaiskogel itself. anyway, this pano was taken pretty much halfway between Gaiskogelscharte and Gaiskogel at approx. 2.720m. straight ahead you can see the Rotkogel and the Räuhengrat and looking to the left one can see the Kraspesferner (small glacier) with the Rotgrubenspitze (3.042m). as I was carrying quite some equipment and it was already getting late, I decided to turn around at this point and not continue to the top (appr. another 25min), but instead take a small detour to a reservoir and take some photos there as well…. Canon EOS 40D / Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM / Hoya ND8 filter / Manfrotto 724B digi 3 shot panorama / each shot exposed at -2,0,2 f/11 / HDR process & tonemapping: Photomatix Pro 3.2.1 / stitch: PTGui location: / 11°03.1687 E / 47°12.1673 N
Cullins, Skye, Hebrides, Scotland. / /
This was taken at Malibu Creek State Park. This is the Planet of the Apes Rock for the reason that much of the movie was filmed in the area. I had never shot rock climbers and wanted to give it a try. I greatly respect the sport, but as you can see here, I found it a little disorienting. (taken with a Nikon D300 using a 10.5 f2.8 fisheye lens).
/ shot by the wonderful Mel Brackstone
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