Critique welcome

while bouldering usually does nothing for me I thought this was great. Excellent composition and choice of focal length

Agree with pneame. Incidentally, does padding it out like this make it pretty much safe, or is the still a bit of a drop below the mats?

Another great shot - 5 from me. My only very minor quibble would be not being able to see the hold climber's right hand is on.

Would have looked better without the mats. Although the guy in the picture might disagree.

Thanks all for your feedback. I wish I'd managed to capture more of the stepped-overlap feature in its entirity as well as his hand, but I wasn't quick enough with balancing that with the position of the climber. Next time maybe.
WRT matts, I thought it was essentially safe with 2-3 pads. There's a narrow terrace that they sit on then a 5ft drop from there, so you have to make sure you land on the terrace and have a person to keep the pads and yourself from dropping further down, but the nature of slab climbing means that you're unlikely to come exploding backwards.

Whenever there is a shot of Art Nouveau there is no getting http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=39450 out of my head. Even though your shot is better in many ways.

Cool, thanks for that Andy.