Character Study

In the winter i get kinda crazy being cooped up all the time so i am constantly looking for ways to entertain myself. Luckily, my son Jack is a constant stream of entertainment, but just like i rely on him to entertain me, he looks to me for the same. I recently came across a box of my old toys in the attic and wanted to show him what i used to play with when i was younger. He was pretty fired up and has since taken the collection over, making it his own, but graciously allowing me to play with them when i ask. Looking at these old toys i started to remember how magical they were when i was younger and helped preoccupy me for so many hours. I only found a few GI Joe's , transformers and star wars figures left over from my childhood, a fraction of how many i used to have, but its still really cool to see my son playing with these 20+ year old action figures. Seeing these old toys gave me an idea to help combat my winter boredom. My friend Nikki had recently discovered a similar cache in her parents attic that is perhaps the finest collection of stars wars figures i've ever seen, replete with millennium falcon, x wing fighter, i think there was even a tonton in there.
Seeing as all my star wars figures are long gone she was nice enough to let me borrow the figures for a few days in an attempt to capture these youthful memories. I set up a small tabletop "studio" and set off on my mission. Getting the light was a total pain in the A, trying to reduce portrait lighting techniques to such a small scale, but after a lot of experimenting and some cursing i finally got the formula down and got to work.


I showed these to Jack and after asking me where the toys were and i why i didn't give them to him he then asked for copies of the pictures for his room. If these are good enough for him i think i did something right. I certainly gave myself something to laugh at and a way to further reconnect with some childhood memories.