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Gorgonzola By Simon Opper 7/9/2014

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Photos from the first ascents and repeats of George Broadfoot's classy new routes Spicy Cheese (26) and Gorgonzola (27) to the crag Cheesedale, Nowra, Australia. Luke Magills route Small Cheese (23) not pictured is also a quality addition to the area. More photos can be seen on Simon's Flickr. Route details are on thecrag.com at cheesedale LEFTSIDE. message George on Chockstone at gbro for other deets. See Also: Pic 2 | Pic 3.

User Comments

IdratherbeclimbingM9
7/9/2014
Now here is a photo that has strong visual balance from a great angle, without photo-shopping (like last gallery pic), the natural eye-drawing-lines, out to the corners to obtain it!

Interesting to see reflections of clouds in the water below, as sky-scape (imo), generally adds heaps to the visual component of good quality photos, and this was an unusual way to achieve it.

I would've given more stars if I could see the belayer for 'completeness of story' that the photo portrays.

Thanks for the link. After viewing them, I highly recommend checking out the other pics (linked above), at Simon's Flickr; as there are some excellent shots there.

Nick Da Frog
7/9/2014
Nice Shot Simo! Would be sic to have an off flash pointing at George to add a bit of drama ;-)
Gotta critique the photo though, my eyes are drawn to the quickdraws on the right for some reason.
@IdratherbeclimbingM9, I don't have "Photo-shoppe" or Photoshop ;-)

One Day Hero
7/14/2014
I'm impressed that Simmo managed to make Cheesedale look this good. Gorgeous George, on the other hand, actually looks this good in real life :)

Jayford4321
7/15/2014
Gorgeous George, on the other hand, would actually look better with a silly ODH hat on when coming up into sunlight like that :)
Half a star for doing it despite the nowra style fashion sense anyway.

IdratherbeclimbingM9
7/17/2014
_{Disappointing to see that Stugang deleted his humorous comment, made sometime between 9-14/07/14, re the pic.

Something along the lines of;

"The creek and greenery are quite pretty, but the climber on the turd of rock makes me want to wash my hands.

Five stars. Captures Nowra perfectly."

~> He is having a nostalgia moment? Manning up to his real feelings about Nowra?

(In context of a subsequent thread that was partially inspired by his comment here amongst other's Nowra comments...

~> See Bagging Nowra thread).}