Baring Head — the 2011 bouldering competition

Seems hard to believe it's over three weeks since I drove to Baring Head to photograph the annual bouldering competition. A cold, blustery southerly wasn't ideal, but cloud for the first couple of hours made the photographing a little easier. Later the cloud dispersed (to a degree) and the hard, contrasty, early afternoon light tested the limits of the camera — and photographer.

Here, Dan Pringle makes a high, scary problem look like a stroll along the beach.



[26 February 2011; Canon 20D, 10–22 mm f4 at 21 mm, ISO 200, 1/640 at f8]


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