Vertical Life

DEEP Blue SEA

ometimes climbing photography is an attempt to capture the raw and real emotion of a send (or someone busting a gut trying to). They are going full berko on a route and you are snapping away like crazy and hoping that you got the shot. But sometimes it is more like directing a play; staging the scene, practicing the movements, getting things just right and then capturing a

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