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I'll be honest: 2021 sucked. In many ways I am blessed, with my family and friends and I had a few good moments in the summer, again, with family and friends. However, I struggled with the limitations due to the pandemic and with the effect it had on my work and my general well-being. Fortunately some changes are at hand in terms of work, with my role changing.
When it comes to LEGO building this was an unusual year too. I built a lot less than last year and I couldn't muster much interest in building large or complicated aircraft models. Instead I turned my attention to building smaller things. I built a few 1/22 scale cars, but all of my other builds were minifig scale, with me trying my hand at some minifig scale military vehicles / missile launchers, as well as civilian trucks and earth-moving equipment.
A few highlights in the collection are the XV-15 tiltrotor, powered with Circuit Cubes and the Teracruzer TEL/ Mace cruise missile.
I'm not sure what next year will bring, but I am looking at a 1/22 scale helicoper, a British AA recovery truck and a new minifig scale aircraft.
This was a still-life set-up that I took a close-up of and then processed in Topaz Software to make it appear authentic. It involved two plastic model tanks set up inside a lightbox.
Model: Correen Bo
MUA/Hair: Robert Starks
Photographer: Braxton Klavins
Styling: Robet Starks & Braxton Klavins
Inspired by a couple of model kit builds I've seen in recent years, most recently at Bricktastic where somebody took the Concorde set from 2023 and put it in a 'box' with sprues and all. This has been on my list ever since, but since I've seen model kit MOCs for planes and Bandai figures, I thought I'd try my hand at a car. Everything here is Lego asides from the Citadel paints (which I was unable to convert into brick form, and not for lack of trying 😛), although admittedly the sprues are among the most fragile things I've built in recent memory.
C&C welcome as always.
Model: Lott Kalee
Photographer: Bram van Dal
1/1000 F1.8 1000 85mm
Location: The Veemgebouw in EIndhoven. This is very diverse location, where you can make beautiful atmospheric pictures, small shops focused on food.
This photo I made in a pub that is present at this location. On the left you have big windows where the light comes in and I played by vignetting in post processing with the light.
Two fashion models in front of a hand drawn backdrop, ca. 1948, presented to the State Library by ACP Magazines Ltd. collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9O4zQVMn/ZBOEGGME2MWj
Photoshoot with Matthew Raetz
Actor/Model
Learn more about Matt here
and here
Lake Vista
New Orleans, Louisiana
Model: Vera Rovers
Photographer: Bram van Dal
1/180 F / 2.5 500 Canon 5DmkIII Sigma 85
The photo was taken at the same location as an earlier photo where Vera is sitting on the stairs. In this photo she is closer to the lighting, making the light more intense and the background darker.
The daylight that shines into the building through a window ensures that her hair, forehead and nose bridge are nicely accentuated.
By turning her body to the shadow and her face to the light, she has direction where the light ends up.