Fri Night Vid Finding Focus - Life Behind The Lens of a Climbing Photographer
This week's Friday Night Video is a portrait of a prolific climbing photographer from Wedge Climbing. Sam Pratt is well known in both the outdoor and competition scene but if you haven't heard of him, you've likely seen his photos having snappe...
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That's great, thanks!
Worst video in a while.
Some nice shots and climbing sequences, but the back 'story' is pseudo intellectual twaddle.
Just watched it, having avoided doing so until now partly because it sounded like it was going to be Americanised, pseudo-intellectual twaddle.
I was way more impressed than I expected. And, apparently in contrast to your opinion, I felt like I barely registered the quality of any climbing sequences, as I was caught up in the inner mental turmoil (which I assume to have been the director's intention). It can't be easy to draw viewers into empathy for a mental state far removed from their own, but I think in case case they managed to achieve that, certainly for me.
I'd certainly urge anyone else who may have avoided watching it for similar preconceived reasons as mine, to give it a chance.
This is the doom I feel whenever I climb trad seacliffs.