thartshead pike

Ont Thills

om mani padme hum

On  a fine saturday afternoon, after a week or turmoil stress and wrong doings, me and pal decided to conquer the pennines, as we live at the foot of one of its highest peaks, we set off on our mission, equiped with feet...wrapped in clingfilm, an apple and a loaf of mouldy norwegian bread, we set off to rid our minds of fog and mist left over from a week of racing rats.

the message!!

beaut

ma trecking pal looking at his hands

the path of the self ritious man with cold feet

There had been a snowfall, so it was pretty damn chilly on the willy but as they say the first step is the hardest. Once we had scaled the first of the peaks, after many false horrizons it begins to level out, so after taking in the beautiful sights of the valley of Mossley, which i take for granted on a daily basis, we began to run, through snow and ice and swamp and sheep shit, after a few hours, soaked and cold we stumbled across a message in the not so virgin snow, it read "om mani padme hum". i thought nothing of it at the time but after doing a bit of research it turns out its a Tibetan mantra, which evokes the compassion of Chenrezig...who the dalai lama is an incarnation of. Anyone, finding this out put a smile on my face and ill be looking more into it.....TA

The Leafman Prophecies

As im aware, this could be percieved as insanity, perception being the toolbox for reality, weve got a utility belt.
Working for the press can suppress. So were trying to do things a little different. Every year theres certain inevitable stories which will be published from...economic turbulence to freak weather conditions all the way through to footballers behaving badly. It can get pretty mundane capturing the same shot year in year out so as press photographers by trade, its our job to find a new approach to find/make/manipulate a picture to make it feel new,sometimes it works most times it doesnt but its important to exercise the fat obese lazy creative fucker in our heads. some are quite happy with the kid sledging picture every year and will continue to be so until they hang their cameras up. Some people just arent that creative, im not having a go, its just the way it is.
Anyway...in pictures we tried to to show that winter was late...a mundane topic full of climate propaganda created by slow news days,.make of it what you will, we had a laugh doing it and it wasnt just for the papers it was a good form of exorcism and a way of working that beats the shit outta the ordinary press stuff.  Heres to thinking out of the box, or maybe thats what everyone does now, so theirs more space inside the box..
get um out! MERRY CHRISTMAS X

thinspirations everywhere innit

3foot ballons with paper mache on a maiden, normal innit?

leaf collecting looks propper dodgy to dog walkers





some people eh!! sheesh



meet eddie....



bring in the models



voilaaaaaaaa!



bit of the old repress coverage, not as much as we desereved tho....


THE END.......FOR NOW ANYWAY.....