Category: Housekeeping

Roll up, roll up! Read all about it!

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You will have to forgive this non-toy focused post today! Instead of a review, or a how-to, I wanted to spend a little time talking about our weekly(ish) email newsletter! Sent to almost 300 people each week, our newsletter contains all the latest posts and news from the Toy Photographers …

My 400th Blog Post

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This is my 400th blog post. It seems like only yesterday I was writing my 300th blog post. Where has the time gone? While my 300th blog post first appeared on Stuck in Plastic, my 400th blog post finds me in a very different place: The Toy Photographers Blog. So …

Life of Toy Photographers

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What is Life of Toy Photographers? It’s a book we created showcasing the amazing artists we featured on the blog in 2017. We created Life of Toy Photographers to celebrate our first anniversary as a blog. For a limited time only, we’re offering you an opportunity to purchase this book. …

Hashtagapalooza

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Last week I introduced a new hashtag, #nofigurefriday, and boy did it seem to go down well! I was happily surprised at how many of you took a chance at ditching the figure and shooting your accessories. We had some absolutely brilliant photos shared with us featuring a range of …

Five Words to Define a Year

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Back in January I wrote about five words to define a year. While I had originally meant these words to guide my personal work I thought I would look at the blog through this lens as well. Growth Starting this blog was a giant leap of faith. Would anyone follow …

Cheers!

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Shelly recently expressed her gratitude. Now it’s my turn to say cheers. Pardon my knucklehead-ness I’ve proudly worn the knucklehead moniker since I started taking photos of toys. I should point out here that I am a bit of a dingbat. Last year I thought I was turning a year …

Feeling Gratitude

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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward If you’ve been a reader of my writing for any length of time you know I periodically like to take a moment to pause and reflect on all I have to be …

Who are we?

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Welcome to The Toy Photographers Blog, a blog for and about toy photography. I’m so glad that you’re here and that you’ve found us. This blog is a place to talk about toy photography, to hear from other creative people who take toy photographs and learn how to be a better toy photographer.

Lets Shake the Blog Up!

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Its time to shake this blog up and see where we land. I hate to bore myself and I really don’t want to bore you. In an effort to keep us ALL interested, I’ve decided to shake things up a bit. Since there’s no one around to stop me and tell me this is a crazy …

Welcome Brett Wilson!

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On behalf of Boris, Vesa, Mike and myself, I want to officially welcome Brett Wilson to the Stuck in Plastic team! Yes, I realize that’s a really weird statement to make since Brett has been writing a weekly post for the blog since April of this year. He has been one of many guest posters …

Toys on Vacation (an excerpt)

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As we’re preparing for our next article for Bricks Culture I thought I would share an excerpt from our last article about how to take your toys on vacation. If you would like to read the entire article and see all the photographs contributed by members of the Stuck in …