Siurana, Climbing in Spain.
A selection of photographs from my recent trip to Siurana, I was asked to capture climbers in the Region de Mont Serrat.
Short video and article to follow soon.
Siurana Guide Book over looking the entrance to Siurana.
Siurana back street to the local climbing
Climber on Unknown 8a route, Siurana
Andrew Gibb, 6c+, Siurana
Resting/Redpointing, Andrew Gibb, 6c+, Siurana
Laurent Moseley, 6c+, Siurana
Chalking, Laurent Moseley, 6c+, Siurana
Shadow of me on abseil photographing.
Updated Website – New Sections!
There are some great new changes to my website. A brand new fashion section, and soon to be filling the spaces are Film, in association with One Tribe TV, Published Work and Projects. Check it all out here – www.pierscunliffephotography.co.uk - So watch this space as I regularly update it!
Feedback would be great! Thanks
Screen Shot of new website!
In Association with One Tribe TV
Rat Race Adventures | Day 1 | Sat 24th Sept 2011
Enter the Mean Streets. An endurance challenge in London city centre held by RAT RACE Adventures. Starting from the Tower Bridge, competitors were given the signal to disperse and take over London. Their objective? Complete as many checkpoints as possible in the 2 hour time frame. You think that sounds simple? Wrong….the checkpoints were scattered around the city centre. None of the CP’s were in any logical linear line. You had to head to one and then navigate to the next, taking any route you fancied.
This race was on foot, so I was tasked with covering it on my trusty steed! That was a challenge in itself as I don’t know the streets of London. So my map was clamped between my teeth (this makes breathing a tad tricky…must buy a proper holder) and a next to useless free sat nav woman talking through my ear phones on my iPhone.
There was another photographer, Cliff Hide, but he was tasked with getting the press shots, whereas I was getting all the new material for Rat Race promotional and advertising shots. I headed to The Arch climbing wall and grabbed a few shots, lighting was tricky, but I captured a cool shot of a racer with his map clenched between his teeth. Then it was a brisk ride to Trafalgar Square where I had to Hunt The Rat – a cockney speaking chap in a rat costume. He was very tricky to find as he had been placed in the middle of a music festival that was being held there too.
Next was Russell Square, where the CP was in the middle of the fountain. Great opportunity for getting shots of racers getting wet, but I was bitterly disappointed when it was just a piddly floor fountain that spent most of its time dribbling water, not gushing it out. After some time the fountain picked up some height, and with a bit of encouragement I persuaded some of the racers to get drenched. It was fun to shoot and the racers appreciated the attention.
Back on the bike I raced back to Potters Field to the event village to capture the racers crossing the finish line.
Hope you like the pictures.
One Tribe TV
I am proud to announce a new and exciting TV production company called One Tribe TV headed by BBC Human Planet series producer Dale Templar. It is set to be big in the South West and further afield.
“One Tribe TV is an exciting new television and media company based in the West Country. As well as factual television production – specialising in foreign and remote locations – One Tribe TV also provides media training, production consultancy, guest lecturing and professional speaking.”
Dale Templar | One Tribe TV | ©Piers Cunliffe Photography
Meet The Moment Slogan Help!
Carrying on from the Cliff Bar Meet the Moment competition, I have 3 more pics I want to enter as an ‘Adventure Postcard’, but could do with your help with the slogan.
Please bear in mind the space and how your text fits in it. Anything you can think of will be considered, but keep it clean please. For a peek at the my latest entry click here. If I do use your slogan you will be duly credited in the notes section when I submit it.
Here are the photos – just leave a comment starting with either Photo 1, Photo 2 or Photo 3, so I know which one it applies to.
Look forward to your answers.
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Meet The Moment
I have just entered a competition run by Cliff Bar. A fab opportunity to win big and to do that adventure you have always dreamed of doing.There are loads of entries so winning will be tough, but I’m confident!
I was inspired to do it when I was checking up on Michael Clark Photography and saw his entry. (Its an awesome entry!)
So here is my entry. I will be entering a few more but the hardest part is the slogan. It has to fit with the photograph and the ethos of what Cliff Bar are trying to promote.
Burley Moor Panorama
Burley Moor, Yorkshire
Drip Drip.
Christmas day walk and I captured this gem. The snow is all melting away now, but in my books it was a White Christmas!
Merry Christmas (even if it is a day late)
Icicle Drip
Russan Route Finding
These photos were taken while on a Rockfax trip to South of France to create the new Haute Province climbing guide book which is due out in Spring 2011. I spent two weeks with Adrian Berry, a professional climbing coach, and other climbers from UKClimbing.com, and helped with the photography of the routes in Russan, Claret and Seyenes. It was my first taste of climbing photography and there certainly is a knack to it!
I greatly enjoyed my time there, and looking back over the images, makes me want to get back out on the end of the rope and take more photographs and get better at it.
The last picture shows me on the rope working. I was hanging 2meters free from the rock and had to have an additional Gri-Gri on my harness, which had a length of dead rope attached to the bolt on the rock by a quickdraw, (visible at the 1 o’clock position) so I could adjust my distance from the face of the rock without compromising safety.
Hope you enjoy them!
Leading in Russan
Adrian route finding in Russan
John pulling through the crux in Russan
Where we played in Russan
Me photographing on the rope.
