Forgotten Photos #7 - Where is Kiwi?

Searching for the Kiwi birds :-) (Stewart Island, New Zealand, 2005)

Forgotten Photos #6 - Playing hide-and-seek

Climbing is rarely boring ... especially in the Gramps ;-)

Photo of the Week - Switching into project mode

Steven Ahern climbing the bouldery and equally beautiful section of Zapt (28/7c+) at Zap Crag, Blue Mountains, Australia

Forgotten Photos #6 - Never too early to start climbing

It's never too early to start climbing ... Janny at Point Perpendicular (Australia)

Forgotten Photos #6 - Never too early to start Golden hour at Upper Yosemite Fall

Photos of the Week - Floating line

Mark Edwards climbing or rather cruising through The Floating Line (28/7c+) at The Egg, BlueMountains (Australia)

Photo of

Forgotten Photos #5 - Golden hour at Upper Yosemite Fall

Pretty much a snapshot as we were running quite late to meet up with our friends at the top of Lost Arrow Spire. I wish all my snapshots were like this though ;-)

Upper Yosemite Fall, Yosemite National park

Photo of the Week - Taken by surprise

Hey Kamcha come back here ... there are some big waves coming ... Naaah I'll be fine ;-)

Photo of the Week

When these guys warm up at your campfire you know it’s gonna be rather chilly day for climbing

Forgotten Photos #4 - Going fishing

Going fishing

Photo of the Week - To climb or not to climb tomorrow?

To climb or not to climb tomorrow?

Forgotten Photos #3 - Hawkesbury River

Toby Hulf deep water soloing in Hawkesbury River, Sydney, Australia

Other photos of this series:

1. Forgotten Photos #2 - Behind the Curtain
2. Forgotten Photos #1 - Rest day in El Cap Meadows
3. Forgotten Photos - Intro

Photo of the Week - Taipan Wall

Taipan Wall, Grampians national park, Australia

Forgotten Photos #2 - Behind the Curtain

Time to go home :-) (Diamond Falls, Blue Mountains)

Related posts:

1. Forgotten Photos #1 - Rest day in El Cap Meadows
2. Forgotten Photos - Intro

Photo of the Week - Nighttime bouldering

Toby Hulf getting closer to the stars while bouldering in the Grampians national park

Forgotten Photos #1 - Rest day in El Cap Meadows

Rest day in El Cap Meadows (Yosemite Valley)

Forgotten Photos - Intro

Forgotten Photos - Intro

I guess most of you know it. You come back from a trip with flash cards full of the most amazing pictures the world has ever seen. You go through all of them full of excitement ... 1 star, 2 stars, 3 stars ... until you are happy with the final selection. You put the photos up to share them with others ... lots of comments ... another excitement.  

But what about the rest of the photos? Do you just forget about them or delete them straight away? Are they really worse or do you just remember them being worse from the first time you reviewed them in the camera?

I sometimes find the first selection quite subjective. Having fresh memories of the atmosphere and what was happening outside the frame sometimes distracts me from what has actually been captured. It is just so hard to step back ... I remember the atmosphere rather than letting the image to pass it to me.

And that's why I love those rainy days when I stay at home browsing through old photos with a bottle of beer nearby (I wish I could say a glass of wine as it sounds more artistic ... but I am just a climbing bum in the end ;-). Not being "fooled" by fresh memories anymore it is much easier to see the photos through other people's eyes and quite often (but it keeps surprising me again and again) I discover a photo which was somehow ignored before.

Why am I writing all this? It is just too hard and unfair to leave these photos forgotten. So I have decided to share them here from time to time as I rediscover them. How often? I guess it depends on how rainy this year will be ;-). 

So here is the first one of The Forgotten ...

  Forgotten Photos #1 - Rest day in El Cap Meadows

Bloc Team member Matt Burnett is crushing at the Grampians

Saturday morning at Maroubra Beach

Forgotten photos #1 - When dream comes true

Milan Koukal having a rest

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Taipan wall

Just a couple of photos from a rock climbing trip to The Grampians.

Gavin finding his new project Venom (28) on the Taipan Wall quite entertaining ;-)

Too late for dinner ... again ...

Afternoon coffee

Finishing climbing early has one advantage. The coffee shop in Blackheat is still open ;-)

Don't Believe The Hype

It was a nice day at Boronia Point in the Blue Mountains. I was about to start complaining how hot it was and that it was not possible to climb anything hard when Holger turned up and showed me that it was not the weather which was the problem ;-)

He cruised one of the classics Don't Believe The Hype 29/8a. Actually he was so fast that I had just enough time to get above the crux, get everything sorted and snap this little sequence.

Thanks Holger, it was so nice to be so close to the action ...

Holger Moeller - Don't Believe The Hype 29/8a

Well I just saw this vid of Corey Rich ... truly inspiring and motivating. Check it out on ...

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