If you’ve been on my social accounts, you’ve likely seen these already, but I’m gonna post them here as well because they’re cool and I was blown away and I own this site so you play by my rules. Ha.

This month, I’m taking part in a 31-day toy photography challenge by Articulated Comic Book Art titled “Octoyber.” Each day, a new prompt is available to which we need to fit some toys in a photo.

Happy Friday the 13th, folks! I mentioned on Sunday that I’d be hosting my Jason Voorhees photo collab again all week long and I did. So here are my photos and the accompanying poetry I wrote for each…

One of my favorite holidays is coming up this week… Friday the 13th!!! And, of course, being me, I have to celebrate with my annual toy photography challenge… A Week of Victims!!!

I love you sometimes, Mother Nature.

How about a simple post of photos from our road trip to Indiana and southwestern Michigan that ended today just to put a little bow on the weekend?

Not sure how many of you follow my toy photography, but every month that we have a Friday the 13th (at least for the last two or so years), I’ve run an event called “A Week of Victims.”

Another dusk shot I took for kicks just to see how it would turn out. This is from Alice’s Place, an ice cream shoppe in Elburn, IL, out west of us.

It’s been a long time since I took scenery shots that weren’t vacation related. For some reason, I decided to do just that last night in the car in the way home.

And here are some random photos from in and around Vancouver this past week.

Here’s a load of photos from the various stops we made in and around Seattle this past week.

Every once in a while, you have to recharge your creative batteries and step away from the serious effects-laden photos and do something simple… and cute… and fun.

Here is a photo (or two) of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man going through some post editing.

Just a quick step-by-step process of a photo I created today that will be posted next weekend.

Oh man, was I jazzed tonight!

Last weekend, I did an action figure re-creation of this cover of Jason Aaron’s Marvel Star Wars #14.

Okay, so we were a few days late to the game with going to see the holiday lights at Brookfield Zoo this year. But we went and we clearly were not the only ones going after Christmas was over. It was jammed!

Let’s see what Artie the Shelf Elf has been up to since his arrival on Friday…

I thought I’d take a moment to throw some of our Halloween-related photos your way.

As I enjoyed detailing what I did yesterday and again have nothing else to say, I’m going to detail a second visual effects job I did on a toy photo I took.

Just taking a moment to highlight a photo editing job I did for my hobby account. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

I am so ridiculously proud of Nate for the photo he took today. This is the finished shot, post editing…

Throughout this past week, I ran yet another round of A Week of Victims on my hobby IG account in celebration of Friday the 13th. In case you need a reminder, this is when I take Jason Voorhees toys and have them menace other toys for fun.

It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while, I find myself with the time and creativity to put a little extra effort into my toy photography.

Very briefly tonight, we had tornado sirens sound near our house. They ended almost immediately and all the storm clouds blew past.

Happy birthday, 'Murica. You're not at all the country I was raised in or led to believe is a big, beautiful home that is open to all. Instead, you're quickly becoming a morass of violence, hate, bigotry, and just general ill will. 

I was trying to snap a photo of the smog that had settled on the Chicagoland area as a result of the wildfires up in Canadia.

Why can’t I take pictures like this of real people and make some money off this hobby of mine?

And here are a bunch of random pictures from our vacation in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Fort Bragg.

Okay, I lied a little yesterday when I said I wasn’t going to recap our vacation at all. I will. Just a little. In the form of photos. These are from the second leg of our trip, which was down in Los Angeles, specifically Universal Studios Hollywood and Funko HQ Hollywood.

Holy cow! Just about a month until we go on vacation. I can't believe how quickly the time has flown between hearing about the need to start planning this trip and actually freaking out about it happening. 

I’ve been playing around with an app called LensFX on my iPhone to apply visual effects to some of my toy photography. I’ve used it primarily for lightning and lens flares and fog and some textures.

I snapped this photo of two action figures recently.

One of the coolest things about toy photography is trying to make do without having too much in the way of sets or dioramas or whatnot. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to scour the web for hi-res photography that can be used on the background of your computer behind the subject of your photo.

In celebration of the last three Friday the 13ths, I’ve run a personal toy photography challenge wherein I use a Jason Voorhees toy of some sort in a series of photos for the Monday thru Friday leading up to the 13th.

I'm halfway through my Kevin's 7: Video '22 list. Really! I am! I just can't type anymore tonight and I still need to steal some accompanying images. Yadda yadda yadda.