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Epperson for his exquisite use of light and warm, golden tones. Kemple for getting all those "rad" moments, even if his subjects did start the brahs in beanies fad. Tyler Stableford is also pretty good, as is John Burcham.
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Neil Monteith.
His use of colour and composition are both brilliant. His photos 'wow' me every time I look at them. They are consistently better than the pics published in the glossy rags.
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toddtar
Jul 23, 2004, 6:13 PM
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I have to vote for the homeboy, Harrison Shull
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heh. dirtylenses4lyfe.
thanx for the props, e-legs.
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Shull
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Jul 23, 2004, 6:22 PM
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Shull, but I'm in the SE and hence, a little biased. I also second the orangeoverhang mention. I'm consistantly blown away.
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stellanole
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My vote is for one of RC.com's very own...Andrew Kornylak.
Andrew takes great pics!!!
http://www.akornphoto.com/
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Jul 23, 2004, 6:26 PM
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Im not going to vote for any of them. I enjoy all of thir work and am not going to favor one over the other
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the climbing community's lucky to have so many incredible photographers... among my favorites are Corey Rich for mindblowing images and Michael Clark for clean and graceful photographs. --maya.
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wow... those ARE amazing pictures... good stuff!
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therealdeal
Jul 23, 2004, 10:34 PM
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JORG!!!
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Simon Carter.
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climbsomething
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Addenda: I have studied modern climbing photogs pretty extensively, and I retain that Epperson and Kemple are among the best shooting today. Corey Rich is also one of the best of his generation, assuming he is as young as I think he is. He gets extra respect because he, like Zak, puts himself in some pretty extreme situations for photos. Rich and Zak take some great El Cap shots.
But if we're just giving hugs and kisses in general, I also think there are some great photogs you've never heard of, and who are arguably better than some of the elite names. Though I consume catalogs and magazines whole, I am directly influenced by rc.com locals joe and spike. Tis pity they don't submit stuff here anymore. Why is that, boys? :(
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Jul 24, 2004, 1:34 AM
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Looking through all of those photographers Corey Rich has my vote, he just seems to sum up what climbing is to me in his photos.
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merock
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Ace Kvale
Whit Richardson
Rich Durnan
Brian Post
Cameron Lawson
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Jul 24, 2004, 3:08 AM
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The only ones I really know are Ben Moon and Aaron Black, who have both come out with excellent stuff.
Ben's site is:
http://www.moonfoto.com/
I find Aaron's website pretty annoying with a slow connection though.
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I second the votes for Ben and Aaron.
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mike landkroon... beeyatches. now STFU
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Jörg Zeidelhack hands down. His shots are clear and oh so nice. I love the pics of Dai in australia so much.
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In reply to: mike landkroon... beeyatches. now STFU
yeah...that's good
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therealdeal
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and epperson is so old he is about to dry up and blow away...i'm sick of it. excellent stuff, but i'm so tired of seeing one stock photo after another of some person (who is now 50) in fires and lycra w/ a headband on..
JORG!
Did anyone mention Jim Thornburg?
Can you tell I'm a sporto?
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Jul 24, 2004, 6:51 PM
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Incredible! they were all Good
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Have you folks ever flipped through Shull's coffee-table book Southeastern Rock? Beautiful climbing.
I really like some of Pattitucci's photos.
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Simon Carter, no doubt.
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aaron black that kids got the skills to pay the bills and i like that he is willing to go and take a gamble on new areas like powell river and strathcona park... keep up the good work!!!
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akornylak
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> And Galen Rowell too but I couldnt find enough climbing pics on his
> website.
Thats funny.
Zak and Corey are definitely two of the most successful. I love Zak's work, but someone's gotta get that guy a web site, a color profiler and a new scanner.
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Being Australian it is hard to go past Simon Carter. Neil Montieth seems to be constantly improving and has taken many inspiring images. You have to love Jörg Zeidelhack's work as well.
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I really enjoy Simon´s photos but Corey and Aaron also have incredible shots... like all the others do as well :wink: .
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What's the difference between photography and farting?.....
In photography, it's easier to appreciate somebody elses..
Still, I enjoy mine too and this thread is as good a place as any to announce that I have a totally new photo site. I have secure online ordering of prints of all sizes with fast worldwide delivery. Some climbing images but lots of Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Arizona landscapes. Nepal and India are coming as soon as I can get them scanned.
I built the front end with useful information at
www.peaklightimages.com/PhotoHome.html
it links to my eCommerce site with the photos at
http://www.printroom.com/ghome.asp?domain_name=peaklight
Chris Mac gave me a gallery at the Supertopo site at
http://www.supertopo.com/rockclimbing/progallery.html?gid=20
Hey, you can get prints from 4x5 up to 40x50 inches, refrigerator magnets, T shirts, calendars and greeting cards too. If some face or peak in Yosemite is missing, let me know and I’ll hike up and get a shot of it sooner or later.
I’m even thinking of tracing routes like the Nose, Royal Arches, and the Prow on shots of Yosemite faces and making custom prints commemorating epic climbs that ya’ll have had. Maybe I should even do North Dome Gully even though it’s ugly. In my creatures gallery you can buy a shot of #46, the bear that ate your haulbag!
Right now I have an introductory special, 15% off all orders over $75. The prices are already the lowest in this kind of industry but I'm going to jack up the prices on the medium to large images in a week or so once I ensure that my printer is doing quality work.
Can't deny that some of the other photographers listed above have work that is as good or better.
But my farts smell better, at least to me.
Peace
karl
And if the above isn't spam enough, I'll post this in that Check out my website thread, since I'm told I have one free shot there.
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Neil Montieth is my personal favorite, I'm amazed by every picture he has post, Harrison Shull takes some amazing pictures.
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Bradford Washburn should be mentioned!
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I have to pick one? :shock: :shock: :shock:
Impossible!
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ditto that.
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The original, and still the best:
Vittorio Sella
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Canadian boy Andrew Querner
and of course my own photo guy mike tittel adventure photographer extrodinaire
thanks for all the work you've done mike. here's a shot for all you ice climbers out there
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Aug 14, 2004, 5:09 AM
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scott cramer has some of the finest ice climbing shots around.
you may remember an ad for patagonia with a guy taking a whipper on quasimoto in vail. It is one of scotts.
http://www.alpineadventureimages.com/
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In reply to: In reply to: and epperson is so old he is about to dry up and blow away I don't know about that but what irritates me is so many of his shots are posed...some hottie hanging on to something she can't climb on the cover of a mag doesn't do it for me. He has a bunch of prints for sale on Webshots.com that are mislabeled. For instance, there is one of a guy stemming up the Cave Boulder at the Buttermilks with a rope hanging straight down and Basin Mtn. in the background...it is labeled Split Rock in JTree. There is another one of some dude on a route that is labeled Red Rocks, Joshua Tree National Monument. Epperson never answers e-mails pointing out these mistakes
you fuucking idiots. epperson basically invented modern cragging photography, in 1985, when he went into a machine shop and fabricated his "stilts" and combined them with the use of wide-angle lenses.
threads like this really iritate me because, once agian, we have a bunch of fucktards who don't know jack shit about the topic blowing smoke up one another's asses in an effort to appear knowledgable on the topic.
in order to understand the evolution of climbing photography, you need a full set of mountain, ascent, and climbing magazines going back to issue one, plus a selection of tom frost's work -- the first guy to really capture, on a routine basis, the wildness of valley wall climbing.
i doubt any of you have done any serious research into this matter, as you are all so off-base it's embarassing. nobody has mentioned bob godfey or dudley chelton yet. gosh, imagine that.
stick to shit you know about....like, oh, i don't know...the fine points of clipping draws on overbolted 11c's.
this is so much like the bachar thread. none of the participants know what they are talking about, but that does not stop that from posting up.
fuucking grommet n00b wannabe bullsiite artists. give it a rest.
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In reply to: and epperson is so old he is about to dry up and blow away...i'm sick of it. excellent stuff, but i'm so tired of seeing one stock photo after another of some person (who is now 50) in fires and lycra w/ a headband on.. Can you tell I'm a sporto?
no, but i can tell you're a fuckking moron.
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climbsomething
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Well, Bob, if it makes you feel any better (though I doubt it really does), I'm pretty sure I'm a grommet who speaks from the perspective of a photog, not just somebody who spanks it to Gallery and Exposed or the same 5 shots that come up on the front page. I am quite deferential to Eppi's talents- if climbing photogs had groupies, I'd be one. He's done so much for the sport just as a recorder.
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In reply to: and epperson is so old he is about to dry up and blow away...i'm sick of it. excellent stuff, but i'm so tired of seeing one stock photo after another of some person (who is now 50) in fires and lycra w/ a headband on.. Can you tell I'm a sporto?
I can tell you're a ninny. Sport climbing was invented by guys in fires and lycra with headbands on. If you were a real sporto those shots should give you wood the way men of a certain age respond to a Rita Hayworth pinup.
BVB is spot on about Epperson as an innovator, he redefined the game and most of the folks working in climbing photography today are standing on his shoulders.
Step back a few years earlier and Godfrey & Chelton's "Climb" was hugely influential. Rowell brought art to the genre, merging an Ansel Adams sense of light and composition with our little subculture. These are a few of the shoulders Epperson got a boost from.
Points to the guy who mentioned Sella too. His expedition work with the Duke of Abruzzi was amazing.
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Oct 16, 2004, 12:46 AM
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What about Gordon Wiltsie?
http://www.alpenimage.com/
Do a search for him at www.nationalgeographic.com
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Oct 16, 2004, 1:39 AM
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Here is some shameless self promotion for you. Check out my climbing photos at http://www.markweberphoto.com
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tyify
Oct 16, 2004, 6:03 PM
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Tyify moved this thread from General to Climbing Photography.
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: and epperson is so old he is about to dry up and blow away I don't know about that but what irritates me is so many of his shots are posed...some hottie hanging on to something she can't climb on the cover of a mag doesn't do it for me. He has a bunch of prints for sale on Webshots.com that are mislabeled. For instance, there is one of a guy stemming up the Cave Boulder at the Buttermilks with a rope hanging straight down and Basin Mtn. in the background...it is labeled Split Rock in JTree. There is another one of some dude on a route that is labeled Red Rocks, Joshua Tree National Monument. Epperson never answers e-mails pointing out these mistakes you fuucking idiots. epperson basically invented modern cragging photography, in 1985, when he went into a machine shop and fabricated his "stilts" and combined them with the use of wide-angle lenses. threads like this really iritate me because, once agian, we have a bunch of f--- who don't know jack s--- about the topic blowing smoke up one another's asses in an effort to appear knowledgable on the topic. in order to understand the evolution of climbing photography, you need a full set of mountain, ascent, and climbing magazines going back to issue one, plus a selection of tom frost's work -- the first guy to really capture, on a routine basis, the wildness of valley wall climbing. i doubt any of you have done any serious research into this matter, as you are all so off-base it's embarassing. nobody has mentioned bob godfey or dudley chelton yet. gosh, imagine that. stick to s--- you know about....like, oh, i don't know...the fine points of clipping draws on overbolted 11c's. this is so much like the bachar thread. none of the participants know what they are talking about, but that does not stop that from posting up. fuucking grommet n00b wannabe bullsiite artists. give it a rest.
Timothy O'Sullivan
William Henry Jackson
John Hillers
JE Stimson
(these guys dealt wth the wet plate process and about 500lb of kit and still got amazing results.)
Ansel Adams
(Some of his back country sierras stuff has still not been surpassed)
And capping it all off
Bradford Washburn
(photographer, climber and mapmaker extrordinare)
Anybody with a 35mm or digital is taking snapshots compared to what those guys were able to produce given the technology avallable.
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That would make Galen Rowell my favorite mountain snapshooter.
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I like VanGogh
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