Amazing news! If you share my interest in space adventures you’ll see a great treasure in this post. Today we’ll spend the real astronaut’s day at this fantastic Space Station. Enjoy the excursion and happy travelling! Good morning to all the researchers! There is a promise of nice weather today, so …
Today I wanted to talking about a cool book I read by the amazing cartoonist, writer and teacher, Lynda Barry. Its called : What It Is; Don’t you wish you could write? I know what you’re thinking: this is a photo blog not a writing blog. But bear with me…this book was …
The toys inspire us to the search of the special places for outdoor pictures and creation of our own micro worlds. Would you like to make a shot of lightning without looking through the window? Is it possible to shoot a jellyfish without water and light? That’s what we are …
Ask anyone who has ever picked up a camera, whether they are a professional or just snapping on their smartphone, what is the most important thing in photography? I’m hoping that 99% of the responses say light… Without light, there is no photo… period… Now for those of you who …
Grub Street emerged from the photocopied pages of a zine. At the risk of showing my age, back in the early 90s I was into the zine culture. Now the memory of that zine has become my latest inspiration.
It’s so wonderful to get something unique and special when you tell your own story! When the official toy sets can’t satisfy all my wants they give me the motivation for the exciting creative process. Pens, pencils, paper, decorative clay and glue transform into the instruments for my micro workshop, …
Lighting, in photography, is one of those things that looks simple to do, right? Shine a light, pop a flash and WALA! You have a great picture. But being able to understand what the light is doing and being able to control it is a skill and can make or …
Recently I’ve been pondering the role a muse plays in my artistic journey. This started when Dinoczar tagged me on an instagram post that quoted a letter Nick Cave had written to MTV. In this letter Nick graciously declined his nomination for Best Male Artist that year in fear of …
The winter is in the full play. It’s a good time for the snowy, bright and extreme shots! The photographer’s imagination draws the jumping skiers with a perfect mountain landscape as a background, impressive snow splashes and exciting camera angles. But suppose the weather has no idea about your plans… …
I know what you’re thinking. “The pitfalls of toy collecting?! There are no pitfalls, because toy collecting is awesome in every way!”
Again this week I will be revisiting an older blog post with a few updates: How do you choose the toys you photograph? The topic came up because of a recent DM conversation I had about the differences between LEGO and other action oriented toys. As toy photographers, what we …
Every photograph you take is a reflection of you.
…and I’m cool with that! Just because there aren’t photographs of toys being added to my memory cards, it doesn’t mean I’m not still working on toy photography, even if some might call it work!
I hate to admit this, but I’m not photographing enough. Not enough to be as good as I want to be. I was reminded of this while I was returning home from dropping my daughter off at college. I was listening to the LensWork Podcast, catching up and looking for …
As I travelled on my journey as a photographer and digital artist there was one concept that took me a long time to fully grasp. That is the importance of the photographer’s vision, and the lack of importance of the camera. Once I fully grasped this concept it became one …
At the end of July I participated in first person at my first photographic exhibition, during ItLUG Lecco 2018 organized by Marco Chiappa in collaboration with ItLUG ItLUG Lecco is unquestionably one of the largest LEGO-themed exhibitions in Italy and attracts more than 10,000 visitors. This year around 200 exhibitors …
Ideas come and go. Sometimes you can feel overwhelmed with possibilities, other times ideas can be a very scarce commodity. I often hear from people who are trying to stretch their artistic skills that they want to do things, but they don’t have any ideas to work on. It can …
Sleep is overrated. This is what my wife and I told each other before deciding to have a second child. With the first it was not a walk in the park, in the early times we were counting the few hours of sleep, remembering the good old days. Three years …
I written before that I’m easily distrac…. oh look, a butterfly! But the past few weeks have seen a toy photography project have my full attention and focus. Too much focus maybe?
Somewhere near the end of my time in The Arcanum, I was given the following challenge, which was basically: watch a Hollywood blockbuster style movie, then create an image in the style of that movie. Movie makers are masters at telling stories. If you recall from a previous post, I …
