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I have been in the office all week getting the 'behind the photos' work done, so no new shoots unfortunately. I have a bit more time next week & a few shoots to fill that time, until then I thought I'd post something out of the files to spice this page up a little...

Here's a few photos from a feature I did for Outer Edge magazine (for the Feb-Mar 08 issue). It was quite an epic little shoot following my two mates Dave Gliddon & Julian Bell up a 4-day winter ascent of 'Ozymandias Direct' on the North Wall of Buffalo Gorge. It barely stopped snowing/sleeting/raining/hailing the entire time, so keeping my camera gear dry while mucking about with ropes proved quite a challenge!
My travelling/portaledge buddy for the shoot was Macciza MacPherson, who was filming the whole adventure.
The ascent was a 'little' more epic for the fact that I had a very painful back (to the point of hallucinating from pain) which turned out to be a snowboarding injury- verdict: several fractured spinal disks. It certainly made hauling the bags 'uncomfortable'!
We gave a slideshow in Katoomba (Blue Mountains) shortly after the ascent which was great fun.


Check out some of the photos here, and an excerpt from the story here.