At the climbing gym last night, Boom hands me a Korean climbing magazine wanting to show me one of the photos that was in it. I took a brief glance at it not really expecting to see what I saw in it. It was a little hard to tell what the photo was of at first, it was an interesting photo to be sure. A hand, latched onto climbing holds, contorted to an awkward position. A face in the back ground. And then some of the details started to come to me, the hands were white, the magazine was a Korean climbing magazine. The face was interesting too, it was blurred, in the back ground with the focal point of the photo squarely on the hands but it was most definitely my face. That’s right folks, my photo is in a climbing magazine.
It was about a month ago when the photo was taken, I remember a couple of Koreans coming in and taking a bunch of photos of the gym and of some of us climbing. I didn’t really think much of it at the time. Of course it went through my head that maybe I would be in a climbing magazine of some sort but more likely in the back ground than anything else. I did not expect that I would have the first page of the article on the climbing gym in Cheong-ju. It was quite a surprise when Boom pushed that photo under my nose.
It makes me feel proud but at the same time there is another photo of me in the same magazine. It is a group photo of the all the people that happened to be in the gym the night that the photographers where there. Everyone else looks good in the photo but for some reason that I don’t fully understand, my face is contorted into a very odd expression of, surprise, stupidity, wonder god only knows what. I think with out doubt it is the worst photo I have ever taken and it is now published in a magazine for every one to see (everyone being the Korean climbing community). It makes me wonder what celebrities feel when they get bad photos of themselves published on a near weekly basis. I kind of feel sorry for them, I know I would never want to be in the spotlight like that. Although I have to say it was kind of nice to be in a magazine for doing something that I love to do. Just need to figure out how to get paid for it now.
I will post the good photo as soon as I get a photo of the photo from the magazine. I still have not decided weather I want to buy the magazine or not. I probably should, when am I going to be in a magazine again? And as for a posting of the one where I look like a moron, you will just have to find that one for yourselves.

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