Christopher Beauchamp is a Connecticut based location

photographer specializing in dramatic environmental portraits and dynamic

adventure sports imagery for advertising, editorial and corporate clients. His

work can be seen at http://www.christopherbeauchamp.com/

This series of images of Rock Climbers on West Rock was part

of a cover feature in Rock & Ice Magazine on Climbing in Connecticut. West

Rock had been enjoying a mini renaissance among local climbers for the past

several years so it was pretty exciting to see it catch a tiny slice of

national attention. The rock there tends toward the loose and crumbly which why

it was undervalued for so long, but on the sections of clean rock the climbing

is actually quite good. Of course since the article there’s been a bump in

climber traffic which is great. Some of the areas over there have been plagued

with graffiti, litter, homeless camps etc. and I’d like to believe that the

presence of good resource stewards (climbers) will help improve that. It’ll

never be a great climbing mecca, but I love it when I pull up to the stop light

in Westville and catch a glimpse of someone up there climbing in the sunshine

there. Photographically speaking this is a great location, I love the

intersection of the urban and natural worlds and being able to play with that

relationship on a visual level. – Christopher Beauchamp