Lens-artists challenge #329: I am not entirely sure what’s happening in this picture because I was putting the focus on composition rather than narrative. However, the figures’ poses seem to hint at seomething last chance-y..
Last Chance
Category: Toy Photography
Addams‘ Cat
She’s Leaving Home
An entry for this week’s lens artists challenge #304: Behind. The challenge is about backgrounds, and so is this picture – in a less literal sense, too.
In Line
Tangle
After posting an action figure sequence from 2021, here’s a brand new contribution for the lens-artists’ challenge telling a story. Showing K2-SO in the middle of an activity (enigmatic as it may be) implies that there was a ‘before’ and there will be an ‘after’ – a story.
Telling a Story: Spidey Hop Revisited
When I photograph toys, it’s mostly with a story in mind. So when I learned the lens-artists’ challenge was about telling a story, I just had to go through my archives. Skimming through my toy stories, I found that this Spidey sequence (2021) is one of my favorites. It’s short, sweet and consistent; it invites interpretation, and it’s about things that mean a lot to me: Jazz, narratives, and dancing. Enjoy this throwback … and let the good times roll!
„Mama Don’t Allow“
Season‘s Greetings
Balance and joy, peace and entertainment,
both to our friends in the northern hemisphere
and to our friends in the southern hemisphere.
(This year’s last post. See you in 2023?)
Treasure Hunt?
This week’s contribution for the Lens-Artists’s Challenge #219: Treasure Hunt: two reflections. Originally hunting for a picture that would somewhat illustrate the Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and be photographed through things (for yet another challenge), I first tried what I could do with this figure and a glass vase. The pictures turned out to be nothing like what I’d had in mind. However, I came to like these ‘test’ pictures better than the one actually showing “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” through a piece of cellophane. So always hold on to your test shots! They may turn out to be treasures you found without immediately realizing.
Urban Environments
As I go through my pictures of miniature scenes, I find one commen denominator: urban environments. I obviously find myself drawn to urban settings, to the world of alleys, bars, theaters, and public transportatiou. Here’s a retrospective celebrating the city and its lights (and shadows) in H0 scale.
While the vehicles and figures (and the phone booth) come from the toy store, the buildings are custom made, mostly from scratch.
Straight, no Chaser
Solitude
Music by Duke Ellington. This is the first in a series of Jazz pictures I have not yet quite finished. It is also an entry for Paula’s “Pick A Word in July” in which I have not participated in ages: Here’s a window.
Reflection
A contribution to the lens-artists’ photo challenge Seeing Double.
Out Of Nowhere
“Think You Can Kiss Me?”
Seeing Red
Sneak & Swipe
Kickin’ Kitty
Dark Mirror III
Dark Mirror II
empire of lights 