A creative collective of toy photographers
Did you know that there is a French island in the Indian Ocean, near Madagascar, called “La Réunion” (meaning, “the gathering” in French)?
This island came out of the ocean with the birth of two volcanoes, including one which is still active today. Continue reading “Revisiting places”
In this blog post, I want to continue to talk about the lessons I learned from my summer project. This blog post is also largely inspired by my recent reading of Todd Hido’s “On Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude”.
After my summer road trip, I had to take some distance from taking pictures. Then, for the past four months, I’ve been taking photos at the same spot, with a very limited number of figures.
This is what I call “gathering assets”. (This term is borrowed from a few recent podcasts from Brooks Jensen.)
So what does it mean? Continue reading “Gathering Assets”
This past weekend I meet up with some local toy photographers for an afternoon of companionship, conversation and photography. As I was looking around at my friends hard at work, I was struck by the variety of toys they had brought along as subjects. There were dinosaurs, Star Wars action figures, Bratz dolls, LEGO mini figures, custom figures, anime figures, and plenty more I couldn’t identify. Which brings me to my question – how do you choose the toys you photograph?
Continue reading “How do you choose the toys you photograph?”
In science fiction science is, well, fiction: the laws of physics can be put aside and substitute them with whatever fits the story. In Star Wars this means, among other things, spaceships with atmospheric flight dynamics in the vacuum of space. The X-wings fly like Spitfires, even the explosions spew flames and debris in the direction of airflow – which does not exist in space. Continue reading “Designing Weird, a review of set 75154: TIE Striker”
With the help of a couple of awesome folks I’m trying something new in 2017 in our StuckinPlastic Google+ Community. Beginning this month we’re sponsoring and promoting a monthly photo challenge. Continue reading “Big Doings On Google+”
Like my friend Brett, I also had an amazing year. 2016 was a year filled with photography, new friendships, toy photography related travel and lots of photography meet-ups. The year started out strong and finished even stronger with many amazing experiences in between. Continue reading “2016 Highlights – my perspective”
As we surge towards the end of another year, it seems appropriate that I reflect on this year as a member of the Stuck In Plastic collective. I’d best get it out of the way early, because if all goes to plan (which it rarely does) the next couple of posts from me should take care of themselves. Plus, if I don’t write it now, chances are I’ll forget. Continue reading “Connections Reflections”
I have raised my kids within the Montessori system of education which believes in the natural progression of learning that moves from the concrete to abstract. This concept is defined by the children first working with physical objects like wooden blocks and beads that represent abstract concepts like the number system and mathematical equations. Continue reading “Moving from the abstract to the concrete”
Is it a poor trait of the LEGO minifigures?
It was noted, as we were deciding which images to include in the next BricksCulture magazine article last Sunday/Monday (a bloody hard task I might add due to the sheer awesomeness of all the submissions), that the majority of the photos submitted were landscape format.
This got me thinking. Continue reading “Portrait vs Poor Trait”
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Whilst fleshing out the next BricksCulture article about Star Wars, we touched on the subject of the Stormtroopers and their adoption by the LEGO photography community. These endearing characters have become a favourite amongst us as subject matters. Despite their faces being hidden behind their buckets, a raft of emotions can be portrayed with these much-loved characters. Continue reading “The ambiguity of stuff”
