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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Just a Moment

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When, a while ago, the lens artists challenged us to share quiet moments, instead of going through my beach and museum and travel photos, I wondered if, and how, I could show my quiet moments en miniature. Pondering several possibilities, I realized that reading almost always gives me some quiet – and that I can experience this quietness everywhere and anytime.

Today I would like to share a couple of pictures which surprisingly turned into a short story.

Huis clos

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“Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino. Rilassati. Raccogliti. Allontana da te ogni altro pensiero. Lascia che il mondo che ti circonda sfumi nell’indistinto.” Italo Calvino

(You are about to read the new novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. Relax. Collect yourself. Let go of any other thought. Allow the world that surrounds you to dissolve into indistinctness.)