Grit Blocs

Dave Parry is a photographer, climber, and author. He began his climbing career on the gritstone crags of the Peak District, and after a quarter of a century of dedication and hard work is convinced he will get the hang of it any day now. Climbing has taken Dave to many amazing places and different countries – France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Canada and Thailand – but he still finds that a breezy spring evening climbing on Sheffield’s local gritstone crags is hard to beat.His relationship with photography began simply as a means to document days out climbing with friends, and from then photography became his passion. Dave pursues climbing photography with the same considered eye for lighting, form and balanced composition that underpins his landscape photography work. He uses both film and digital technologies and readily admits he has bought too many cameras. He has this under control now; he can stop any time he wants.Prior to being a professional photographer, Dave made a living pushing numbers around a spreadsheet, is a recovered teacher, has worked in a steelworks, and once won a t-shirt for writing a pun. Dave has written extensively for The Project Magazine, along with the BMC’s Peak Area Newsletter. Grit Blocs is his first book.www.daveparryphotography.com

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