So what chair are you?!

So recently got involved helping an upholsterer mate of mine, don't worry she's not really shit - these are the before photos ... Watch this space for when the finished results are unveiled, believe me they'll be fantastic!

Also if you need work done, get in touch and I'll pass on your details.

(Should have cleaned up the white backlgroud/drape, but these are as shot without any further Photoshop'ing)

Silhouettes ...

So it's no secret I like silhouettes, so here's yet another!

Once upon a time I was little-er ...

So thanks to my family for these gems ... Once up a time I was a baby.

New year, new job!

So the other night Paul, the TCA manager asked me when I was going to do some shifts for him, my reply was quickly "As soon as you ask me too". So come tomorrow I'm doing some training at TCA, but not training for climbing, training for getting climbs ready.

Now this isn't a full-time job, I'm literally a name on the roster, for when random shifts need covering. Still, it means I'll have even more opportunity to meet like-minded climbers and spend even longer studying and analysing the problems that are defeating me, whilst standing behind the counter!

So here's a pic from a while back, from left to right; Alan, my new route-setting mentor, Will, my climbing mentor, providing me with all manner of useful comments regarding everything from techniques to injuries, Paul my new boss and an unknown climber.

Is the end of the book trade drawing near? Nah, not yet ,,, Watch this space!

Mr Dumb

So my lil' buddy, Mr 3DOM has a blog going and even some prints for sale, needless to say the blog's rubbish and the prints are amazing!

Get involved, look over at his political musings ...

http://www.3dom22.blogspot.com/

Weird body shots

So this evening, I decided to take a series of self-portraits to compose into further green/red compositions. Once again was at a loss to any interesting models!

The image below is one of the frames taken, tweaked in Lightroom/Photoshop to increase contrast, tone the image and add the scratched overlay. Not particularly well shot or interesting, but can't help but be curious by the bizarre muscle contortions in my right side, particularly the diagonal muscles low on my back.

I've always been embarrassed to take my top off, hell I rarely used to rare shorts, but after living in Spain, I eventually got used to it. At the climbing gym in the summer it became almost a necessity, it got rather warm at times, needless to say I'd have been more likely to keep my top on if I knew people behind me had to look at such a distorted mess of musculature!

Need more portraits in the dark ...

So now I've tried with a black background instead of the white, on the previous amalgamation I really want to take more portraits of mates in the dark (rather than use my ugly mug!), to play with this effect: