Some of my favourites so far include;
This picture of a Lego Knight was inspired by an article I read by Ashley Pomeroy about John Boorman's Film "Excaliber". Apparently Boorman would shine a green light on the knight's armour to make it look "spooky", which is the reason for thr green gelled flash coming from the left.
The background was originally grey, but at the insistance of my five year old daughter I swapped it for a red one, which does indeed look much better.
The shot of the TARDIS is a rare one for me, in that is a Photoshop composite, whereas I usually like to try and do everything in-camera whenever possible.
The TARDIS was shot against a solid coloured background, cut out and placed onto a background from NASA JPL/CalTech.
The background was selectively blurred using a depth map to give the background "depth". I also made a 3D version of this picture, viewable here.
This picture came about as Charles Darwin's birthday (12th February) happened to coincide with the letter "C".
This idea had popped up on flickr with Star Wars Clone Troopers, but I'd not seen it done with Cybermen, so it seemed like an obvious choice.
It did get mentioned that I'd missed out a link (presumably the cyberman from either "Tomb of the Cybermen" or "Invasion"). In a way this is correct, but I'd intended to feature one Cyberman each from the 60's, 70's, 80's and "NuWho" eras. There's also a Beatles "inspired" version here.
This photo was one of those ideas that just jumps into your head fully formed.
Whilst "brainstorming" ideas at the end of 2010, it suddenly occured to me that in 2011, the "Ides of March" (the 15th) fell on a Tuesday. So doing a version of the assassination of Julius Caesar seemed a no-brainer.
So that's some of my favourites from the letters done so far. I've got some ideas already planned for F and G, so we'll keep on trucking and see what we come up with.
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