On August 5th the BBC broadcast episode two of Mountain hosted by Griff Rhys Jones(www.bbc.co.uk/mountain). This episode featured Griff attempting to climb Napes Needle and talking to mountain photographer and author, Gordon Stainforth(UKClimbing.com profile) about mountain photography, including a fruitless wait for good atmospherics and light high on a Lakeland fell.
This series has provoked much discussion at the UKClimbing.com forums.
You can read a transcript of what Gordon said about mountain photography here
Gordon's photo of Kipling Groove (not really a photo of Kipling Groove at all! By which I mean it's 'much more' than that..) is superb - it conveys a sense of the grandeur, beauty, and indifference of the mountains (The Sublime?).
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