About 277 days straight, one soak and one wash.

That's a wrap!
IHSH-295ib

Spooky floating CPO!!!!
Set up a home studio shoot with this seven year old 292 as a stand in for my competition 295-IB.
Love this thing though I’ve sized out of it. Got it the day my youngest daughter was born.

My final submissions for the Redline Rally. Great jacket but I've got to convince myself to stop doing comps in overdye!

Double OD! 301OD under the SEXPOOD. Shirt has a few more days of wear than the jeans.

Missing some of my studio equipment to really make this full shot work but at least I got out of my Pit enough to get back out from behind the camera.

Hey Folks,
Had the chance to be filmed for our school's recent run of PSA commercials. Had to sneak in some Iron Heart!

For context: My wife and I work for a large boarding school in Central Pennsylvania. We run a home of 12 teenage boys and have been at it for about a decade.

Here's a couple stills.

Me pretending to know how to throw a football:

And me pretending to know how to play pingpong, personal daughter my sparring partner:

Still waiting on an interview commercial where I wore the recent UPS UHF, which happens to be a perfect match for our school colors!

Hope you enjoyed!
-GTP

One of the best!
-GTP

Surprised they used this b-roll because of the patch and the fact you can tell that I have no idea how to peel an acorn squash…but here’s my piece where I get to use it everyday!

Over a year of wear.
-GTP

@Davids_denim unfortunately spent the last of the denim budget on the SEXIH25 T3. I could make it happen but the family car just cracked a flex pipe.

@Davids_denim hate to miss this one again but maybe I’ll follow in your footsteps again a couple years down the road ‍

@JunkPants in the end, it’s a bandaid ripped off all too soon. Never fully appreciate the comp during, mournful when it’s over.

Thanks for the words of encouragement and, wow, honestly blown away you remember my XHSbb run!

A trade from the Panda-Headed-Goat himself. Thanks Marc!

EDIT: Marc thinks it’s a different run. Non-OD but also from a few years ago.

@denim-dawg thank you Jorn. I think recent transitions in my life have left me fairly isolated. I’m learning each day the difference between healthy solitude and toxic isolation. My time with this shirt fell oft in the isolation context. Therefore my feelings on the situation are seen through that lens. And those aren’t rose colored in any way. So the encouragement goes a thousand miles.

@Luijim78 @Davids_denim thank you both! It’s a strange sensation. I’ll be so fired up just to be a part of it once the Comps start but almost recoil over the voting and competition.

Your words are an encouragement to an end none of us have yet seen. I know I’ll look back at this words another day when I need them more and feel a duplicative buffering of my motivation.

Congrats to all the IH (and others) winners this year!
On a side note; I feel like throwing in the towel. In four years I've never broke out of the top 50. I don't want to push my entry onto others and seem desperate but the community never seems to look my way. Are the studio pictures too sterile? Does my shirt not stand out in anyway? I live by the "just wear it" mantra for every comp and....I don't know.

I'm not a competitive person by nature so it's weird I even let it get to me but it's like this every year. I spend the year really enjoying to community and the updates, not really thinking about placing after the finish line then...boom I see my stuff just fizzle out in the community vote and my morale follows suit.

Love seeing the studio set. Always curious on the photog’s kit…

Worth every penny.
As for the Redline… always a bridesmaid, never a bride ‍

Double OD! 301OD under the SEXPOOD. Shirt has a few more days of wear than the jeans.