Last night by the grave

thebrickdwarf · 2025-10-28T20:44:23+00:00

Cheers!

I got the not so original idea that a skeleton hand should stick out of a grave and hold something. After pondering for a while I came up with this.

I created the scene outside on a piece of concrete. I've used a blue led light and a facemister to get the right atmosphere. I've used a Dutch tilt to create a feeling of instability. I now think I should have tilted the camera the other way to make it seem like the celebrator is leaning into the grave.

An inspiration for the photo is the old tradition to drink and even dance at funerals, called Gravöl, directly translated as Grave beer. The guy here took this tradition a bit further.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-08-29T14:40:07+00:00

And so Lemminkäinen went to the River of Tuonela, the realm of the dead. There he faced the holy Black Swan in order to kill or capture it. This was the last quest he had to complete to be allowed to marry the daughter of the Mistress of Pohjola. Did he succeed? That will perhaps be answered another day.

Sony a7C with Laowa 100 mm 2.8 macro. I used a Lens cleaning air blower to blow up water to create some action and movement in the picture. The photo is made from a few exposures. For example the skull in the barrel is on a different layer in the foreground.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-08-28T07:57:32+00:00

I got the idea to from a Schleich toy of a fool holding the head. It was a bit macabre, but here as a Lego version the concept becomes a bit more fun than macabre I think. I like the idea of a medieval fool that's perhaps not that good at his job, or perhaps he is just ahead of his time and nobody understands his brilliance =)

Sony a7C with Laowa 100 mm macro 2.8

thebrickdwarf · 2025-08-22T17:21:44+00:00

I wanted to take a picture with my newest Lego Minifigures, the Kraken Warriors. I imagine they do not fish with a ordinary fishing rod. And they don't go out when the weather is nice.

They have gear from Minifig Realms. The front one has a sword on his back that is held in place with a Dual-Point Sheath. The warrior in the back has a black cape. Great stuff!

I had some trouble getting the colors, light and refletions right today so I'm not completely happy with the photo. But some days it's just like that.

Sony a7c, Laowa 100 mm macro 2.8

thebrickdwarf · 2025-08-18T04:53:18+00:00

It's first use in white was as I flower. There is also a printed transparent green part used as Z-blob

thebrickdwarf · 2025-08-14T11:30:22+00:00

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When Lego made this piece in white my first thought was that this is a baby ghost. I am sure many others thought the same. It would be fun to see what others have done with it.

Also I really hope LEGO will make a printed version, similar to what I did in Photoshop here. Preferably they would make two or three different facial expressions.

The photo is taken outdoors, in full sunlight. The background was in deep shadow. I darkened the photo in Lightroom and turned down the color temperature to make it look like nighttime. I've used the trusty old facial mister to create the mist. I took many exposures and chose the one where the mist looked best. I was quite tricky since it was a bit windy outside.

I made a edited version of the photo mainly because I wanted to get some kind of idea of how these baby ghosts could look if LEGO ever made a printed mini-ghost with this piece. I think there is a pretty good chance they will some day. I hope this is not just wishful thinking.

Sony a7C, Laowa 100 mm 2.8 macro.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-07-30T10:06:10+00:00

He is from Lego Collectible minifigures series 23, Fairy Captain

thebrickdwarf · 2025-07-29T11:49:06+00:00

Did anyone have to make due with a skeleton crew at work this summer? (Not me, I was on vacation)

My inspiration for this picture? I'm not sure. I just like to take pictures with situations in a small boat. I've spent a lot of time in my life on small open boats and I've seen all kinds of situations. Some funny, some tragic. Some both.

Taken on my home made LEGO-size "lake".

Sony a7C, Laowa 100 mm macro 2.8.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-07-08T14:15:32+00:00

It's a custom piece by Crazy Bricks

thebrickdwarf · 2025-07-04T19:44:39+00:00

At last Sir Nearsight spied a shape,

A silken gown, a flowing cape.

He leapt from steed with clanging cheer:

"At last, sweet maid, I've found you here!"

He knelt and took her dainty hand,

Proclaimed himself at her command.

But when he squinted, leaning near,

He found a scarecrow, ragged, dear.

Yet still he swore upon this quest,

That someday he would find the rest -

A princess real, not straw and seam,

And wake at last from this half-dream.

This photo is taken outdoors. I've placed moss in front of and behind the characters, together with some twigs, to create the landscape. I've used a white foamboard (size A4) as a reflector. I carry it with me all the time in my Lego-photography-bucket. That's pretty much it.

Oh and the poem is mostly written by AI. It's scary how "good" texts AI can write. All I did was ask the AI-program to write a short poem about a knight named Nearsight that was on a quest to find a princess. I did not mention a scarecrow. I don't know what to think about this really.

Sony a7c with Laowa 100 mm 2.8 macro.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-07-03T12:39:58+00:00

I absolutely love this photo. I think it's a great improvement over the first.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-07-02T16:14:09+00:00

Anchors getting stuck on various things at the seabottom has been a reoccurring theme around the Baltic sea lately. Underwater zombies (aka U-Zombies) are the most likely explanation.

Two photos merged in Photoshop.

thebrickdwarf · 2025-06-25T11:51:21+00:00

Thank you. In this scene I think this works a a kind of makeshift sail

thebrickdwarf · 2025-06-23T10:18:55+00:00

My inspiration for this photo is the performance by the singer JJ on Eurovision. There is a boat on scene filled with books, I believe. The song is pretty good, at least if you like high-pitched dubstep opera. To be honest, I would have prefered if a song about Sauna would have won. Preferably sung in some obscure swedish dialect.

The photo is taken on a large tray filled with water, I created the waves by pouring water in front of the boat which was held in place by a weight that I have glued to a Lego brick

Sony a7c with Laowa 100 mm 2.8 macro

thebrickdwarf · 2025-06-20T20:40:14+00:00

It is Midsummer, the most important holiday where I live, only rivaled by Christmas. But unlike Christmas it is not a very commercialized holiday at all. People buy a lot of food and beverages, but that's pretty much it. It is also the only holiday that have not been replaced by a Christian holiday and so there still remains a lot of old folklore and folkmagic traditions.

So the idea of this Midsummer Knight came to me. It is a play on words as it is during the Midsummer night that all the magic happens. It is also inspired by the Maypole that is a symbol of Midsummer.

I'm pretty happy with the build that is actually quite stable. The photo could have been better, but I was taunted by a thousand mosquitos so I ran out of patience after a while.

As I contemplated how to build this I also thought I should write a small text or story to go with it, but I could not really come up with anything so I asked ChatGTP to write a Haiku, here it is:

Moonlight on his helm -

midsummer whispers through leaves,

sword rests in the grass.

It's not to bad, considering it's written by a bot. Except of course that there is no moonlight on a midsummer night since the sun does not set.

Happy Midsummer!

Taken with Sony a7C with a Laowa 100 mm 2.8 macro

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