For our last Toy Photographers Podcast challenge, Kristina and I took a look at mythological stories and how they can inspire creative toy photography. Greek mythology has been a strong influence on Western culture, specifically the arts and literature, for centuries. Because of this, mythology seemed like an interesting lens for exploring storytelling possibilities with toys.
This particular challenge to our listening community resulted in some very interesting images and interpretations of myths. Each image shows how these ancient stories continue to influence our personal and contemporary stories. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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A new year!
In the new year, Kristina and I will be suspending our podcast conversations and challenges. But before we call it quits completely, we have one last podcast we want to create in 2021. And this one requires your participation! We will be live broadcasting our conversation during the upcoming Toy Photographers Online Meet-up. The topic will be “The Best Toy Photos of 2020” in our community of listeners. We want you to send us your best photo from 2020 and tell us why it’s meaningful to you. Our plan is to discuss as many photos as we can in our allotted time. We will share what you have to say about your photo as well as what we think is awesome about it. All submissions chosen for the broadcast will also be published on the blog.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate all the amazing work created in our community this year—and it’s a fitting final post for this epic year of conversations and challenges. If you would like to submit your image for this special podcast, please use this form. And don’t forget to register for the meet-up! It’s going to be an epic weekend!
Thank you
I want to thank Kristina for an amazing year of challenges and conversations. I’ve learned so much through the photography process and our friendship. And to you, our faithful listeners, thank your for your downloads, your comments and your support these last months. Your enthusiasm has kept us going through a challenging year.
You’re the best!
~Shelly
Neat to see all these mythological toy photos! Thanks to you and Kristina for all the great podcasts, and the challenges to keep creativity sparked in our community. Looking forward to the online meetup and seeing what 2021 will hold!
As I usually say on the podcast – thank you Shelly, and I love to send my warmest thoughts and thanks to everyone who made images during the years, first with me and James and form (mars and forward) with me and Shelly. I
I also want to send a special thanks to Joshua who every month done the editing and made us sound great ❤️❤️❤️.
And I want to send my warmest thoughts and all my love to my dear friend James that took up the idea of making a podcast with me to start with. Thank You!!!
Join us during the meetup – send your images my way… love to talk about them during the meetup.
First of, excellent theme and images discussed. I enjoyed this one alot.. as I do with the others!
I’m so gonna miss you Kristina and your conversations/insights with your photography experience. Certainly hope to hear your voice again someday!