The Send Climbing Venue / March 24, 2017 by Tom Glendinning

Hereford has it’s first climbing wall!

Perfectly timed with my return from travels and living temporarily in my home town, I helped the amazing team at The Send with architectural venue interiors and model photography. Thanks to everyone who got involved with such enthusiasm.

It’s also a wicked place to climb, with loads of room to yoga on the crash pads as well (-it wasn’t just me).

If you’re in Hereford drop on by for a climb, the setting is fantastic.

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The wall in skeletal construction progress

Taylor Tennis Club / March 16, 2016 by Tom Glendinning

This recent commercial shoot for Taylor Tennis Club in Thornbury was great fun - the kids and grownups alike were fantastic, along with the whole team of coaches who were really accommodating and helped make some great actions shots. You can check out their courses and join their club here: http://taylortenniscoaching.co.uk/

Also great thanks to Leo, standing down court of his incredible serve was a little unnerving but worth it.

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2014.03.01 BathHalf2014 / March 10, 2014 by Tom Glendinning

The Bath Half Marathon 2014

Was a drizzly, chilly affair. As a spectator you felt rather silly, trussed up in layers of warm and waterproof clothing as scanty lycra and goose-pimple clothed women and men ran past. I took some shots up to the point Alex Streatfeild ran past, then I had lasagne.

Highlights for me were a couple running with hands held, the juggler (who made the whole distance like that), the toilet girl and the chap with FOR MY MUM.

Oh, and the Sesame Street guys were fantastic.

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2014.01.## NIBAS Commission / February 5, 2014 by Tom Glendinning

2014.01.## NIBAS Commission

I have been covering a lot of indoor climbing events this winter.

Directly as a result of this came a commission for the National Indoor Bouldering Award Scheme (NIBAS). They are setting up the scheme to follow a similar programme for roped climbing. This provides teaching, training manuals and log books to help direct kids and schools as they learn the ropes (or in this case, boulders).

I was given a brief to produce a selection of imagery for this purpose, got in touch with the very talented TCA youth squad and subsequently also Bristol Grammar School, then organised some really great shoots.

All the climbers, right down to the weeniest of them were great with helping me out getting the shots I needed.

I didn’t take the posed element as far as I might have (introducing better lighting would have helped tremendously). Instead I wanted to capture the climbing as if it were another competition, me in the sidelines catching the action. This meant more opportunities for variety of shots at the expense of noise and light quality.

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2013.10/11 Winter Redpoint Boulder Comps / December 16, 2013 by Tom Glendinning

2013.10/11 Winter Redpoint Boulder Comps

I’ve been getting on the climbing competition racket.

Whilst I am not much of a boulder comp goer myself, they are great fun to be at and photograph. So far I have covered three comps at Redpoint Climbing Centre in Bristol, and another at my digs, The Climbing Academy, with more coming up soon.

So far so tremendously fun. Best of all is the concerted collection of silly faces I now have in my photo library…

Being at the comps is a way of helping out my local climbing venues, and potentially providing them with advertisement material when they need it and I can acquire model releases. However for each event I offer the photos for sale on my website, like when you do a mud run or skydive but loads cheaper.

I’m also testing out a plan to have some dedicated regular climbers exchange stock photo model releases for free photos of themselves looking extremely strong. If it works out I’ll expand this idea further and build a big stock library! Climbers who would like to be in on this to contact me :)

As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or facebook, are hugely helpful and welcome.

2013.09.21 Redpoint Bouldering Comp / September 21, 2013 by Mister Tom

The date draws very near when I will leave the (dis)comfort of full time office employment and begin working as a freelancer. In the mean time, last week I had the chance to photograph for Redpoint climbing wall in Bristol. This was an evening boulder competition: I arrived after work, shooting for a couple hours, then had a good bash at the comp myself after the time for everyone else was up. Thanks to Jack and Geoff for the heads up and having me! Definitely check out Redpoint, it's an excellent, vibrant wall.

I also got to meet Dan, who is their usual practitioner of black-box magic, and who films for DMM (and climbs of course) - he gave me some excellent tips on short notice, so cheers Dan.

Behind the scenes: Quite literally. To get most of these shots I scurried in behind the art-adorned plywood walls and equipped with harness and lanyard scaled the metal climbing frame forming the boulder walls, then balancing from above was able to get some great angles on what were some excellently set, dynamic and fluid problems. [note: dust sealed body and lens - WIN - my bag has some stylish white patterning still.

These are the top shots from the night. I will be making all these photos and more

available to download

as full size images to keep once I have clearance from Redpoint.

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Finally - thank you to all the climbers! Hopefully see you around Redpoint and TCA.

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