Back in 1999, California-based photographer and rock climber Dean "Bullwinkle" Fieldman started a unique art project called "Stone Nudes".

Equipped with a medium format Pentax 67 camera, Dean captures portraits of both male and female climbers in the nude with B&W film - celebrating the beauty of the human body on rock structures.

"The essence of the climbing spirit" as he calls it, is represented through his beautiful calendars that are popular among the climbing community. 

Dean Fieldman: Website / Facebook / Instagram

Katie Lee: The Original Desert Goddess (1957)

“The body in these photographs is thirty-seven years old - one that has been hiking freely and in tune with nature for at least half of those years. When I met Glen Canyon it was love at first sight - a place far from the inbred taboos of our society - closer to a dreamland than to reality. I have never posed as a model and am not doing so here… only doing what I always did in Glen Canyon - climbing, dancing, walking, touching, talking to the stone, swimming in the river, lying in the shallows, sliding down the falls, crawling through ruins, inching up crevasses, hanging from tree limbs, covering myself with mud, playing, singing, living with the canyon. I can always tell when a model is photographed in a place she’s never seen or experienced before; it’s in body language that can’t be hidden.”

Video excerpt from DamNation (2014):

Hiroshi Yoshida – Kumoi-Zakura (Kumoi Cherry Trees) 1919