Rock
May 21st, 2008 by Juha Ylitalo
During last three week’s in Mrs Nesbitt’s ABC Wednesday, we were hiking in Kuusamo. Now its time to move south to Repovesi National Park. Repovesi has few things which makes it quite unique among Finnish National Parks. Part of the park is artillery firing range for army, some of the areas are protected by UPM, area has quite many roads going across the park and as a last point, it is quite popular place among rock climbers.
Photograph has been taken from Olhavavuori, which is 50 meters (150 feet) vertical rock face that starts straight from a lake. Rock climbers have their own tent village on the nearest flat spot of land. Even though my climbing career never reached the point, where I would go climbing outdoors, I still love the idea of photographing climbers as they are trying to ignore gravity.
Technical details: Canon EOS 20D & Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM + 2x II (1/640s, f/8, ISO200)
More information:
Repovesi National Park photo album in ylitalot.com.
Repovesi National Park in outdoors.fi
Hauskaa valokuvaa !
Seal on hea ronida, kui kukud, tuleb pehme maandumine
(There is good to climb, if you are falling it’s soft landing)
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Rock Climber live in dangerous way. Nice shot;)
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I don’ t know how they do it normally in Repovesi, but at least when we were there, all climbers were tied to ropes, so all falls should stop within couple meters from where they start.
However as we all know, accidents happen. Few years ago, we had couple indoor climbing accidents in Finland, where the climber fell more than 10 meters (ceiling was at 16m) and hit the floor. Thankfully noone died in those accidents.
Wonderful shot! Great choice for R too.
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Cool shot!
Looks challenging…. 
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So great:)
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Phew!
Not having a head for heights this amazing picture brought me out in a sweat!
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