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LEGO Spacemen - 2021

No one asked, but it’s my opinion that it doesn’t get any better than the classic LEGO Space minifigures. So simple in design, but also so perfect.

We had lots of different types and themes of figures, from knights and castles to pirate ships to city boat police, but these spacemen were always my favorites. It’s been a joy getting the chance to play again with these guys who were always the most sought-after/fought-over figures from when my brother and I would build LEGO moon bases and rocket ships in the early 1980’s.

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Retro Portraits - 2021

This shot is the beginning of a new series of retro-style portrait of retro toys. It’s currently parked in the Odds & Ends gallery until more images are finished, but it’s already shaping up to be a fun collection of familiar faces.

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Lego Flowers - 2016

Another outtake from the Lego flowers shoot rescued from the archives.

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Lego Flowers - 2016

This image is from the same shoot as the fields of Lego flowers.

On a technical note, this series was my first use of the Rollei extension bellows which allows for extreme closeup and macro photography.  With the rail fully extended and two addition extension rings, there was a good eight to nine inches between the lens and the camera.  Paired with an 80-megapixel digital back, the flower petals, which are less than half an inch in real life, are more than thirteen inches in width in the image.  

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Lego Flowers - 2016

This image was inspired by my lifelong love of Lego that was itself reinvigorated by my attempts to instill a lifelong love of Lego in my children.

Looking at an individual Lego flower stem, I thought, 'this is cool, but what if there were lots?', and I set about getting lots.  And lots.  And lots.

The original idea was to be one massive field of multi-colored flowers, but that evolved instead into fields of single colors: red, yellow, white, and pink.  After several weeks of collecting and assembling flowers, this image was the first of the series to be photographed.