Category: Miniature Adventures

Flight Risk

Tobias M. Schiel4 Comments

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.

Just a Moment

Tobias M. Schiel14 Comments

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.

Minuscule Doors

Tobias M. Schiel8 Comments

“Going back” is this week’s Lens Artists Challenge; Sofia Alves takes us back to an old doors challenge. In the light of these two ideas I’d like to start this post with some back doors.

As far as toy photography goes, I love to build and photograph doors because of both their architectural and narrative potential. They are simple means of definig a building and evoking an atmosphere – back door or main? Factory or bar? Welcoming or forbidding?

A door is a passageway. This function evokes narrative. The door is closed: what’s happening behind it? The door is open: will someone walk through it? And then, what will happen?

The inside and the outside can stand for a before and an after. Thus, narrative – or the paasing of time – can be hinted at in a single picture.