Pesda News

Penguin predicts the future of publishing

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:13:20 +0000

It’s all a matter of perspective. If you watch their video past the halfway point, you’ll find out how wise Penguins can be. Perhaps it’s why UNESCO takes account of how many books are published per country per year as an important index of standard of living and education, and of a country’s self-awareness.

Discover Canoeing publication date

Franco — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:24 +0000

Apologies but we are a little behind schedule on this one. We do have a firm delivery date from the printers now and the books will arrive at our distributors on the 23rd of March.

Rock Archivist

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:49:24 +0000

The Rock Archivist takes off where Google Book Search couldn’t reach. Archiving and publishing online the ad hoc new routes books and journals, kept for posterity down the back of climber’s sofas, at rock climbing shops, cafés and at indoor walls. What the internet was made for.

Photos from Mexico

Peter — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:26:08 +0000

So I may have missed the best of the ice here in North Wales, but I kept my eye in for falling off of things with a couple of weeks kayaking in Mexico this January. Late season it’s like a taller Italy, early season (November, December) I imagine it’ll be like a warmer Norway. It’s enough to have me looking forward to next winter already. Check out my brief photo story.

Incredible legislation: the UK Digital Economy Bill

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:09:18 +0000

Peter Mandelson’s office will have powers to make ad hoc changes to copyright law in less than six weeks from now (this is not the daftest thing which will come to pass through the Digital Economy Bill). For the full story check out Copyright Action. Similar legislation is also being passed in the US.

Outdoor Photography posts you should read

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:06:42 +0000

Here are a few recent and not so recent blog posts from photographers I’ve been following online. Do send in your top adventure sports photography blog bookmarks, tutorials, workflows and inspirational portfolios, and I’ll keep this list up to date.

Mountainbike photography from Seb Rogers. Low on information (he does sell mountainbike photography courses), but there are some interesting insights into Seb’s techniques in many of his posts.
Strobist is a host of information on using off camera flash from David Hobby. This is a really excellent resource which spans the whole gamut of light and lighting. Check out his recent posts on shooting Trip Jenning’s portrait and a climber’s hands with two strobes as well as lighting large spaces like climbing walls.
Darin McQuiod’s tutorials about his workflow shooting whitewater kayaking. Reproduced from his River Lover blog.
Mark Rainsley’s advice on the way he shoots sea kayaking, whitewater and wildlife.
Alexandre Buisse’s advice on photographing mountaineering (and mountaineering with a camera) published on UK Climbing.
Tim Kemple’s blog of his work including a behind the scenes series of posts about shooting big wall climbing in Yosemite.
Choosing and using larger strobes in the outdoors, from Steve Rogers, kayaker and adventure photographer.
Action Sports Cartel, online resource for action sports photographers, photographer profiles and practical advice.

Nature of Snowdonia is Here

Franco — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:19:17 +0000

Mike Raine’s book Nature of Snowdonia has arrived. It looks great! Order your copy now.

Hurrah!

Nature of Snowdonia Delivery Date

Franco — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:25:12 +0000

I have just received notice from our printers that Nature of Snowdonia will be delivered to our distributor’s warehouse on the 3rd of February.

Hurrah!

Free font download, Climbing Games dingbats

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:57:02 +0000

For your club posters, instructor session handouts, presentations, personal websites or any other (personal) use you can dream up, here’s the Climbing Games dingbat font. It’s an OpenType font file for capital letters A to R (see the ‘readme’ text in the zip). If you’d like to use this for commercial purposes just get in touch (contact in the readme file). Climbing Games is becoming really popular at climbing walls all over the land, if you don’t have a copy yet, you can check out a sample here.

Quite a good idea actually …

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:17:10 +0000

Harry Thaler has a good idea with his Stopp It drain bung replacement … change your drain bung fitting once and thereafter you can use any PET plastic bottle top (found all over the world) to keep water out of your boat. I can’t help feeling that he’s missed something by putting a video of whitewater open boaters on his homepage though (or am I missing something?)