Recent published work · 29 April 2008
Here are some “tear sheets” of some of my photos that have been published in print in the last few weeks. I’ll try to show some examples of where my work is used from time to time but keep in mind these are just some examples, there also will also be a lot of other images being used that I probably won’t get around to showing here. I don’t have the time or inclination to scan it all in and I don’t feel the need to show it all.
Alpha Magazine (Australia) used my shot of Nathan Hoette (on his Sparticus, grade 33, in the Grampians) in their April issue for their “Man Alive” section. Nathan backed it up by giving readers a bit of schooling in the finer points of rock climbing in his typically entertaining style.
Men’s Health in the USA used my shot of Steve McClure clipping on Mecca (8b+, at Raven Tor, UK) to illustrate a training article. When it comes to muscle definition it’d be hard to beat Steve’s guns. The article and photo has already since been reprinted in Men’s Health Australia and Mens Health South Africa.
The German climbing magazine Klettern was the first publication to use one of my photos from my new years trip to Tasmania. The photo is of Steve Moon on the ultra classic Pole Dancer (22) which is located right out at the end of Cape Raoul, at the southern tip of the Tasman Peninsular. Getting this shot took a few days of hard work but it’s a place I’d always wanted to visit and it was well worth it. It’s about three hours hike to the start of the Cape proper, so we camped there the first night like most parties do. From there it’s several hours of abseiling, scrambling, climbing, scrambling, abseiling, climbing, etc, just to get to the start of Pole Dancer. You feel pretty committed and out there near the end of the Cape, as if you’re on a big wall or a mountain ridge. A totally awesome place though and a great experience.
Two Australian magazines ran spreads of my Totem Pole slack-lining 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.
— Simon Carter
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