1. Jakob on Deep Cut Chimney (IV 5) during the Scottish International Meet. Feels like a million years ago.
2. Cornish dark horse Wojtek on Quietus (E2 5c). He climbed this so quickly I barely had time to reach for my camera.
3. Sam on Wings of Unreason (E4 6a) - I was a bit more interested in the insect in the foreground that I haven't yet identified. After a few 'dry runs' at the dyno, Sam circumvented it entirely in the end with a technical sequence.
4. Autumn and Winter of 2020 was bouldering season in the Peak. Here's Eli at Harland Edge, seeking out some of the more esoteric spots to avoid increased traffic in the Peak due to Covid restrictions.
These are absolutely stunning! I love the sort of milky effect (for want of a better word) thats on a lot of them, is this something to do "in camera" or in some kind of post production editing software?
Ah so it is a Cuckoo, can't say I have seen many of them up close but I hear them often in the woods nearby, I didn't realise they were striped similar to a sparrowhawk hence my mistake, I can see the difference in the head and beak now I have compared the two.
Yeah that is the Cathedral Cave in Langdale, Cumbria. It really blew my mind when I visited there, a must visit if up that way.
It is done in Adobe Lightroom where I have made my own presets, it is created by adjusting the tone curve to darken the highlights and to lighten the blacks/shadows slightly, this will give photos a faded softer look. The overall clarity is also reduced slightly as well.
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