As of summer last year I have been doing some hobby photographing, as a way to do something creative that is not part of what I usually consider to be work. A big influence for me has been the various toy photographies by Chris McVeigh. I’ve got a lot of old toys that I would like to photograph in interesting ways.

Via McVeigh I also found the equally great Avanaut and a couple of weeks ago he published a photo called The ”Ghost” that inspired me to take a photo of one or more toys in the snow.

So me and Linn went out for a walk on the ice on a small lake close to our apartment. I brought some toys¹ and the camera and apart from just enjoying the sun and some hot chocolate we tried to take some pictures. ”Darth Vader in the snow” is the one that turned out the best, but still not great. The bright sunlight really reveals the fact that it’s a toy. I would like to try again in less light, preferably at night in the star- and moonlight. I also need to do a lot more reading and practicing on forced perspective to make things blend together better.