Tons of exposure - submit your pictures!

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neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Jan 13, 2015 - 12:07am PT

hey there say, ed... avery... and all... wow! and wow again..

great stuff here...

wow and me, being 'feet on the ground' gal, well, these make me glad that i am ... :))

so, the pics are great!! they sure show something that i know i can't
handle, :))

Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Jan 13, 2015 - 03:48am PT

Nice exposure photo shares everyone! What a good idea for a thread.

Thank you Ed!

Let me make a little contribution from my small but growing collection of climbing photos. While not close to a metric ton of exposure this shot is pretty good for Iowa in the springtime.

I waited and waited for the chance to take this photo of my friend, Dan. He is a good climber and this route is well within his ability, but you can see some emotion in the eyes as he goes for the clip.

In sum, I'm learning a face, eyes, hands, and a view of the consequences of failure can deliver an exciting picture.

Good color, and lighting are also important, and on this spring day the foliage plus the randomness of Dan's new rope, it's color and contrasting color of his shirt seem to make for an exciting image. Still, not quite a ton of exposure but enough to qualify I hope.

wallyvirginia

Trad climber

Stockholm, Sweden

Jan 13, 2015 - 04:34am PT

Posted this before, in shoe shots thread. Decent exposure in southern Norway.

Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan 13, 2015 - 06:55am PT

Topping out on Mescalito - and untying a bit too early...!

bob

climber

Jan 13, 2015 - 07:06am PT

matty

Trad climber

under the sea

Jan 13, 2015 - 07:19am PT

micronut

Trad climber

Fresno/Clovis, ca

Jan 13, 2015 - 07:31am PT

Fwoah! Michael Hjorth wins with that Mescalito Tiptoe up thread. Made me queasy.

MisterE

Gym climber

Bishop, CA

Jan 13, 2015 - 07:40am PT

Chugach

Trad climber

Vermont

Jan 13, 2015 - 07:54am PT

richross

Trad climber

Jan 13, 2015 - 07:55am PT

Batrock

Trad climber

Burbank

Jan 13, 2015 - 08:02am PT

pyro

Big Wall climber

Calabasas

Jan 13, 2015 - 08:03am PT

WBraun

climber

Jan 13, 2015 - 08:06am PT

LOL where do we get one of those?

Batrock

Trad climber

Burbank

Jan 13, 2015 - 08:20am PT

WB,
We found it in a bargain bin it Oakhurst at the market. We just added a little tape.

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2015 - 08:53am PT

ß Î Ø T Ç H - exactly how I read it first time through, as a bit of rhetoric, but then I thought a bit more about the question: how would I compose an image that conveyed to the audience of the NYTimes that sense of exposure?

It's actually a very old challenge, the exhibition of paintings American Sublime; Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880 that toured in 2002, the catalog for that exhibition had to define "sublime" and it is a definition that climbers would know, quoting from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauty:

"Whatever it is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever it is in any sort terrible, or is conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling"

And it was the aim of those 19th century landscape painters to convey the sense of the sublime in their depictions of nature through landscapes.

In many ways climbing is still a 19th century affectation... though the current goings on in The Valley may be distinctly modern. So it is befitting that Warbler would insist, rightfully so, that the readers of the NYTimes be treated to depictions that capture that sense of sublime.

My first sense of that feeling was standing on the N. Ridge of Lone Pine looking out into the Owens Valley, the senses all confused by the airy vastness of the space and the solidity of the purchase, and the improbability of the setting.

How to capture that feeling in an image is what this thread is all about, thanks to Warbler for being rhetorical, we can riff off his complaint and try to make some art.

WBraun

climber

Jan 13, 2015 - 09:00am PT

I don't see any exposure here.

Those are all pictures and you have to imagine the exposure.

When you're out there doing it then it's real.

Here it's only imaginary ......