Flight Risk

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The original challenge had been “a coherent mix of toy scales” which inspired me to use the combination of 1/87 scale policemen and a 1/500 scale airplane to create the illusion of space.

Reading this week’s lens-artists challenge – which was to share “images which contain three subjects” – however, I really felt I would like to throw this one into the mix: While there are, strictly speaking, five subjects, the composition seems to suggest there are three elements: basically, two dots (or blobs?) and a line.

Pas de deux

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The one thing I wanted to make was an icon for a West Coast Swing community. So I tried a couple of variations and found the first picture came closest to a WCS vibe (surprisingly so because the male figure is originally supposed to be a pantomime, and the female was labeled “woman, pointing”). However, I also liked the other couples – dancing or not – so I decided to keep the pictures together as a small series.

Gas Station

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This may be the most sophisticated scale model I made to date.

It is based on photographs of a historic gas station in Chemnitz, Germany; it is my first build featuring this type of corner windows; and it is my first building with curved elements.

It’s also the first time I decided on a white façade because I imagined I would use the model in a high key photo, having the window frames pop out. However, since all my buildings come with built-in lighting lately, the structure also lends itself to night shots.

Sice these photos heavily rely on the use of shadow, this is my entry for this week’s lens-artists photo challenge.

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