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Lily's Travels

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Lily was baffled. And she was a little annoyed because one of these strange tiny persons kept stomping around on her (empty!) tummy, not to mention the red cord that tied her to the wooden stretcher they had used to carry her to that beach. "Big Sands" it was called, she had picked up from the conversation the guy in yellow had barked into his walkie-talkie. What was she doing here, anyway? When Lily had decided to follow her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Lemuel's footsteps and set off to explore the universe she had expected to find her own adventures and not relive his. This wasn't even Lilliput but a strange Central Peuroean shore with a sea that didn't even have a tide. Something with Blatic. Or was it Batlic Sea? She couldn't remember. It was hot, she was hungry, and her shades were out of reach. She had to get out of there. ASAP. So she turned her head to one of the guys who all looked like construction workers and said: "I come in peace. Take me to your leader!"    

"Have you ever seen someone so huge, John? I thought giants were myths." "Well, here she is, and she is a giant. A very pretty giant, I should add. So much for that myth", John said. James, wrapped up in thought, finally joined their conversation: "Do you guys think she's one of the Engineers who made us? One of the Preisers?" "Oh, come on, James, you watch too many movies!" Jim said. "Let's continue with our job and tie her up properly so she can't trample our sand castle before we win the sand sculpture competition. I know we'll win this year." "That's what you say every year", James said. At this moment, Lily turned her head and said: ...

This fun theme allowed me to not only use one of my Playmobil astronaut figurines (it's perfectly normal to have Playmobil figurines as a grown-up, isn't it?) I stumbled upon at a toy store while looking for something for an MM theme (I can't remember which) but also to bring back John, Jim, and James (please see my album if you like). Since John, Jim, and James are adventures of sorts, too, something tells me that this story will have a happy ending. After J, J, and J won the sand sculpture competition, of course ;)

The photography part was very straightforward and fast this time. The fiddly part was the setup, especially tying Lily to the wooden cutting board. At first, I tried to use pins to fixate the thread but the wood was too hard (or the pins too long and soft ̵– or both). So I fetched the thumbtacks, and that worked. But the tiny Preiser figures kept falling as it was difficult to place them on the cutting board because modeling clay didn't stick to the wood very well. 

Sizewise the frame is almost maxed out. A regular Playmobil figure is exactly 7,5 cm/2.95 inches tall, and I arranged the scene so that not the entire Playmobil figure is visible in the frame. It's a single photo, processed in DXO, LR, PS (my signature), and Analog Efex (the frame).
 
HMM, Everyone!

P.S. I'm busy today and hope to catch up with you tonight!

Taken in: Germany / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen / Darßer Ort (show map)

Taken on: February 23, 2025

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OM-D E-M1 Mark III

Laowa 50mm f/2,8 2X Ultra Macro APO

DXO PhotoLab 8

Color Efex

Analog Efex

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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkIII, f/10.0, 1/30 sec, 50mm (=100mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1MarkIII
Lens:	LAOWA MFT50mm f/2.8 C-Dreamer
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	50mm (35mm equivalent: 100mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	+1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.2 (Windows)
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