I had seen the formation on many occasions, but without having a climbing area nearby, it had no routes. The inspiration came to me twice: I opened a new route and thought about how I could forcefully transmit an image from there. The shot failed for three reasons: a lot of backlit, any angle change made the rock lose its shape, and the density and lack of reason in the lower part of the image did not convince me. Luck came with a reflection found another day. I placed 3 flashes for the main image, and a focus with "snoot" to illuminate the moss and not to distort the reflection. Three gradient filters and a color temperature corrector which compensated for backlighting. With everything ready, the sunset was not good, so we had to return two more times.Camera: Nikon D800E - Lens: Nikkor 20mm - Aperture: f/6.3 - Speed: 1/30s - ISO: 320 - Focal distance: 20mm
On the way to the Sierra de la Demanda, from La Rioja, is located this spectacular forest. I have known this forest for years, but I wanted to photograph it in autumn with its colors. In 2020 I found the opportune moment, since that year there were no hunting drives like in other years. What took me a long time was to wait for somebody to pass walking through the road. The photo is not taken with a drone but with a telephoto lens. As a curiosity, the name "Sierra de la Demanda" comes from the 16th century when Burgos filed a lawsuit againts La Rioja over boundaries and pastures that lasted three centuries. This location is shared by Burgos, Soria and La Rioja.Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: - Aperture: f/8 Speed: 1/250s ISO: 320 Focal distance: 150mm
After a heavy snowfall, we headed to Laguna Sucia. The low height that the sun gains at this period of the year means that the small valley that can be seen below does not unfreeze easily, so the rock path to here is very slippery. We spent the night and woke up with everything completely frozen, including the boots that we carefully left inside the tent. We decided to climb this wall to enjoy the sunset, take some photos and to see the sun and warm up a bit. In this photo I was looking for the mixture of cold and warm colors. I waited for the sun to go low enough for the sunlights to set over the landscape, using a small aperture to achieve this. The main mountains that we see here are Fitz Roy and Poincenot. Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM3A - Lens: - Aperture: f/16 - Speed: 1/160s - ISO: 320 - Focal distance: 16mm
The photograph was taken while climbing La Guerra Santa route, in Wadi Rum (Jordan) with the FEDME Women's Mountaineering Team in their “Abriendo Camino” project. This project aims to open new climbing routes by a team of women. In this project we are making a documentary series that we are presenting to festivals. Chapter 1: Jordan 2022, Chapter 2: Greenland 2023.Camera: Drone DJI FC3582 Lens: - Aperture: f/1.7 Speed: 1/4000s ISO: 110 Focal distance: 7mm
Digital Crack is the highest located sportclimbing line in Europe, graded 8a, on the Arete des Cossmiques rock spire. Michał Czech is climbing this picturesque line on the orange granite monolith in the rays of sunrise. This photosession has been my dream for years, but this year we finally made it with Michał, and it cannot be denied that climbing the thin, sharp granite crimps on this route at 4 am, at an altitude 3800 m above the sea level was quite a challenge. However the spectacle of the light was worth our devotion.Camera: Nikon Z7 II with (FTZ II) AF-S Nikkor 18-35/3.5-4.5 G at 18 mm
The image was taken in May 2022 on the occasion of the SPELEO PHOTO MEETING organized in France in the Occitania region. The location is the Abime du Mas Raynal cave near Montpellier in southern France. The speleologist is ascending the 100-metre wall. A Canon Eos 6D with Canon 17-40 f4 lens was used. Shooting data are 800ISO 23mm f5 1/15 sec.Camera: Canon EOS 6D - Lens: - Aperture: f/5 - Speed: 1/15s - ISO: 800 - Focal distance: 23mm
Tammy Wilson climbs amongst the granite eggs as she is silhouetted by the Eastern Sierra skyline.Camera: Sony ILCE-1 - Aperture: f/1.8 - Speed: 1/4000s - ISO: 50 - Focal distance: 35mm
Gaztelugatxe, that magic place on the Basque coast; located in Bermeo, on a small island connected to the mainland by a winding stone path. Gaztelugatxe means difficult castle. In Bizkaia they define it as the "stone fortress against the waves", because against it, its set of cliffs, tunnels and arches, the waves of the Bay of Biscay break strongly. To capture this photo, the stars aligned to remind us why it was chosen as the setting for the famous Game of Thrones series. After an epic sunset, a summer storm formed, lightning began to fall on the hermitage and luck turned its face, achieving a sunset with a unique atmosphere and set of colors.Camera:Sony A7iii - Lens: Tamron 17-28 f2.8 - Aperture: f/16 - Speed: 30s - ISO: 160 - Focal distance: 17mm
In spring, the upper part of the Lake Sihl reservoir often dries up, creating small bodies of water that we use as a playground for our photo shooting. Pilot: Mimo Moratti.Camera: DJI Hasselblad - Lens: - Aperture: f/3.5 - Speed: 1/500 - ISO: 100 - Focal distance: 24mm
A skier slashes a turn on a steep slope... Viševnik, Julian Alps, Slovenia. The relationship between a big-mountain skier and a photographer is all about trust. Trust that is built slowly, as each comes to understand the other. The photographer must know, intimately, what the skier is capable of on any given terrain.Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - Lens: - Aperture: f/6.3 - Speed: 1/2000s - ISO: 200 - Focal distance: 24mm
Chris Davenport descends into one of the most iconic runs in the world as he enjoys a serene moment of solitude on the Valle Blanche in Chamonix, France. Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV - Lens: 14mm - Aperture: f/10 - Speed: 1/1000s - ISO: 100 - Focal distance: 14mm
"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully." I had been planning this adventure for some time. I manually drew the route on my GPS, waited for a weather window, and headed there. The route was quite steep and hard to see where to go as there was no real road, but I managed to get there and set my tent in one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. This image was in my mind as you see it, but I knew it was almost impossible to get it because the Milky Way was so high up. I had to give it a try anyway and I brought a 14mm ultra-wide lens and a panoramic tripod head in order to achieve what I was looking for. I had to take thirty-five shots to visualize the foreground, the mountains and the milky way. I can almost say that the editing process was more difficult than the adventure itself. But happily, I made the photo that has been floating around in my head for years a reality.Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM3A - Lens: - Aperture: f/1.8 - Speed: 15s - ISO: 3200 - Focal distance: 14mm
I love how the mountain looks after receiving the first big snowfall of the winter. It is not all covered yet and you can see the rocks and the shapes of the tubes and hills that offer that contrast to the photos. Also, if it has snowed and has been windy aswell, it will have sculpted shapes for the sunlight to draw those lights and shadows on those photogenic textures of the mantle. Those are the moments when the mountain offers artistic compositions and that is when you can free your imagination and think about the exact place for the rider to make the turn for the photo.Camera: NIKON D750 - Lens: 70-300mm - Aperture: f/4.5 - Speed: 1/1600s - ISO: 100 - Focal distance: 300mm
Location: Céüse, France. Description: There are certain people who move with elegance wherever they go, and watching Brooke Raboutou climb is a real visual delight because observing the elegance and plasticity of her movements, as well as her almost perennial smile, it might seem that where she climbs is easy terrain when in reality it is nothing further from the truth... Her way of climbing is nothing but a “trompe l’oeil” in the form of a continuous flow that makes it seem simple and feasible on which others are clumsy, heavy and lacking in grace or can’t even move.Camera: Nikon Z6 II - Lens: Nikkor Z 70-200mm f/2.8 - Aperture: f/2.8 - Speed: 1/800s - ISO: 1/800 - Focal distance: 170mm
A little hidden waterfall in Austria, near the border with Germany, in the winter season with the famous Zugspitze mountain in the background at sunrise.Camera: Nikon D810 - Lens: Sigma f/1.8 14mm - Aperture: f/9 - Speed: 4s - ISO: 200 - Focal distance: 14mm
