Mild spoiler alert ahead: The Oregon Toy Photo Safari was amazing. Scratch that: they are [expletive deleted] amazing. As I write this I am sitting in the Portland International Airport. I have the music of my homeland cranked (Glass Tiger: Thin Red Line, if you are curious), and I …
This series is about sharing the lessons and insights I’ve gained throughout my journey as an artist. So far I’ve covered my formal learning in The Arcanum, and I’ve covered the importance of story in our images. Today I want to step back and discuss one of the major insights …
The two main things that make up a photograph are a subject and a background. There are many LEGO sets that provide a subject. Most of them do, actually. Fewer provide a background as well. This is the thinking that got me interested in the Creator Expert line of LEGO …
I am planning on attending the Toy Photographers meet-up that is planned on the Oregon coast at the end of May of this year.
Even in the smallest of towns many things happen throughout the day. People come, people go, often not lingering very long in one place. This series of images explores some of the various events that I imagine may happen on a street corner outside a diner in any small town …
Thinking back on my journey as an artist so far I think the biggest and hardest lesson for me to internalize was that we, as artists, are responsible for everything that goes into an image. This includes removing distractions that detract from the image like dust, blades of grass and …
The Star Wars Universe has many unique style of ships. One of the most unique is Boba Fett’s ship, which is called Slave 1. Of particular note iit lands in a different direction than it flies. It does not get a lot of screen time during the Star Wars series, …
I love a photograph that tells a good story, and I try to create images that do just that. When I set out to make a new image, the first question I ask myself is “what story do I want to tell?”. What do I want the viewer to experience …
After having seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi multiple times in theatres, I came away from the experience wanting to explore the new grizzly cynical old Luke Skywalker in my artwork. Of all the characters from the original trilogy, his story arc is by far the most interesting to me. …
And so it begins… Over the past few years I have been on a personal journey to learn photography, and to discover who I am as an artist. Along the way I have gained a lot of insights into the art and craft of toy photography. I was asked by …
It seems like every once and awhile someone creates a post about how they got into toy photography, and what they get out of it. I figure it’s time that I go ahead and take a swing at that particular pitch and answer the how and why of my own …
It is probably not a shock to anyone reading this that I believe toy photography to be a very creative art form that is full of creative artistic people. One of the most blissful times in a creative person’s life is when inspiration hits and creativity flows thru them like …
This may be a shocking statement to some, but I don’t believe there are any real rules in photography. This may seem like a crazy statement as most new photographers learning the craft are soon introduced to all sorts of rules related to their cameras. The most famous is the …
