Piece by piece

I looove jigsaw puzzles. Unfortunately I don't have much time nor place to do them, but I still manage to do a little one now and then. So I did a 3D one, a 540 piece globe:


It took me two hours to the continents and the islands, and four or five to complete the oceans!




Here I am - here I wanna be!


I'll just add an old photo of the largest puzzle I ever made: a 9000 piece. My apartment wasn't big enough to make the whole puzzle at a time, so I made separate left and right half. Here's one:

Aprreciating appreciation

Following my previous post, the conference is now over and my hard work was nicely awarded by my boss. He appreciated my efforts and I appreciate his appreciation :-)

NanoToy

Another project for a customer - but this time the customer was me... does this count? Anyway, I was co-organising a conference and we needed a logo. I took my son's toy (brought by Mike from New York, thank you!) on a sunny day and photographed it. I loved the sharp shadows.


Notice the symmetries of the buckyball:


Do I need to say this was a conference on nanomaterials?


Different perspective:


And the final result:

Feeling patriotic

This is a project .. for a customer. The 'order' was to make something that relates European Union and law, so my idea was to symbolize the justice balance, the libra, with a mobile, balancing the flags of European countries.

All I needed were the flags:



a fishing line, some skewers and patience. An hour later, I had this:



It took me way longer to photograph this thing than to actually make it. I played a lot with the illumination, remote flash, diffuser, flash reflection, aperture... But I'm pretty happy with the results: