Safety over staged.
As you know bouldering can be a dangerous sport, and you can see the boulder directly behind, No shot is worth potential injury.
Nicole Curotto - 30/Sep/17
Agreed, always safety first. What a silly comment Sean Kelly, would you risk the boulders safety in order to get a better shot??! Ridiculous.
Photofanatic - 01/Oct/17
Nice shot, bit saturated perhaps. But looking at it from this angle, from that distance away, I can't see what the spotter is going to do to assist in the event of a fall. Maybe the photo is deceiving. Either way, I'd have cloned out the arm as it is quite distracting from an otherwise very decent photo.
Because of the angle of the holds above the roof, if you were to come off here you would fly into the spotter - the block only becomes a problem for the top-out, and then only if you do it badly!