More published work, this time it’s of the incredible Totem Pole slack-line that I photographed in January.
Two Australian magazines ran spreads of my shots in their April issues. Inside Sport’s treatment (above) was clean and classy and Ralph Magazine (below) took a funkier and funny approach, as might be expected (ie. “not a good time to get itchy balls”).
Double-page spreads of my Totem Pole slack-lining photos have also since been published in CRUX Magazine (as a pull-out poster) and in Men’s Health South Africa.
My hat goes off to the two guys who walked the slack-line: Hans Hornberger (German) and Ryan Graney (Australian). I really appreciated the mental control it took to pull this off when I clipped into the Tyrolean Traverse and slid over the void a little while later; it’s a place that really bombards your senses. I was back down at the Totem Pole for the first time in five years because some friends wanted to climb it and I wanted to get some photos for a promotion of Nikon’s Nikkor lenses. I was also trialling Nikon’s new D3, their first full-frame digital camera, and I must say I was mightily impressed (which is really saying something given I’m a film loving die-hard). More on the digital/film dilemma another time, but for now I’ll just say that I happy to use the D3’s nine frames-per-second capacity when Hans got a bit fancy with his footwork and fell from the slack-line (onto his safely line) and I captured the entire fall without the camera missing a beat.
