Lizenz zum Bouldern

A year after I decided to commit myself to a new bouldering book, Lizenz zum Bouldern is finally done. Here is a little making of – enjoy!

You can order your copy of Lizenz zum Bouldern (sorry, only in German so far!) here.

Simon Carter @ work

Talking of NPS, here is an interesting portrait of fellow climbing photographer, Simon Carter, courtesy of NPS Australia.

NPS Germany

Nikon Professional Service Member finally! Very nice in case something breaks. Unfortunately only for Nikon Pro gear and not for my favorite camera at the moment, the total amateurish D 5000

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Boulder WC 2009 Eindhoven documentation

 

hosts the bouldering WC 2009!

Next week we are going to Eindhoven where Monk hosts the first ever Worldcup event in the Netherlands! The idea is basically to cover EVERYTHING that is going on. Every problem will get its own video camera and a D-SLR for better detail resolution and quality (since this documentation is for the “Lizenz zum Bouldern” book and therefore needs to be printed, we need that better quality!) The D-SLRs will be programmed to shoot one pic every second. This job will need almost every piece of hardware we own (plus some we’ll rent), just backing up all the files will be a major issue. I already went location scouting at Monk, fortunately their set-up with the wall is rather straight forward and easy to cover. I’ll keep you posted what I’m packing and than of course how things go – fingers crossed!

Petrohrad 2009 slideshow

What a lovely event that is! We met in the village of Petrohrad, Petr Resch led us to this years’ area, where everybody, armed with the brand new guidebook, tried to solve as many of the stunning granit problems as possible. The weather gods were gentle this year and we had two great days in the Czech forest. I mainly shot stills with the Nikon D700 for my upcoming bouldering book this time. Some sequences are shot with 8 frames per second so that it makes for an entertaining slideshow. Enjoy!

… where it all began …

 

another fantastic bouldering spot at Fontainebleau, France

Fontainebleau still is the biggest and most diverse bouldering area in the world. For the bouldering book I took panos of Bas Cuvier and Cuvier Rempart. My approach for doing those panos is rather primitive. I pan the Nikon D300 with the 10.5mm fish-eye or the 12-24mm on a video head. That would be not precise enough for sophisticated cubic panoramas, but these are “only” intended for about 80cm x 20cm spreads in the bouldering book. I like panos, as Stone Country’s John Watson says: “Love the panos! I’m thinking of doing these for some Scottish landscape bouldering shots… they feel like you’re there, far more interactive than a pic or even a film!”  Couldn’t agree more, have to do new ones while in Petrorahd next week…

More about Fontainebleau bouldering soon to come, stay posted!

Plastic walls for plastic people?

 

indoor bouldering at the soulmoves, Cologne 2009

A big part of what climbers boulder on nowadays is done on artificial climbing structures. Rock climbers call those “plastic.” In my upcoming bouldering book the particularities of plastic bouldering and how it is different from “real” rock bouldering will be observed. This is a collage of the final Soulmoves session, Cologne 2009. I had the camera locked in 3 different positions, played with different exposures and stitched the shots together as for a Pano…

Bouldering book project

 

Daniel Pohl bouldering, Simon Sticker and Michael Gerritzen observing

After 2008 mainly was devoted to “Die 2te Lizenz zum Klettern DVD” 2009 I’m working on a new book about bouldering. Writing and layout is more instant (well, not quite but more) gratification than editing video.  As I will move on with this project, I’ll keep you posted about its progress. For now I’m need to check my photo inventory to see what I’m missing for the book. Yesterday for example we went bouldering to a new location near Cologne. Being in Germany, this place of course is totally VERBOTEN. It has to remain so secret that we were considering to kill ourselves afterwards so that we can not tell anybody, even under torture. “Enviromentalists” are tough in Germany!