Picture of the Day 17 – Wolverine and the Pez of Fire
Wolverine emerges from the flames, triumphant! He has battled with his mutant enemies and strikes fear in all who cross him!
It’s cold and gloomy today, so we built a fire. I had been attempting a Pez portrait earlier that I had abandoned because it looked really lame. But my giant box of Pez dispensers was off its high shelf in the closet so a new idea was born – Pez meets the flames of El Monte! I tried the Hulk, but he looked kind of stupid. Wolverine was the best.
I shot this with my Nikon D70s, a 210mm lens (I really love this 70-210 lens. Thanks for the recommendation, John!). I turned off the flash and opened the curtains enough so Wolverine’s face was lit. I tried it with no fill light at all, and like the silhouette action. 
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Wolverine rocks.
FIRE!!! FIRE!!!
Comment by Christopher Frazier on March 12th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Too bad there isn’t a Trogdor Pez dispenser.
Nice shot
Comment by Shayne Simpson on March 13th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
30-day photo’d!
Comment by Kemal Ataturk on March 13th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
[...] Straight from the house of the Wolverine comes the next photo challenge. 10 Numbers! Yes, it sounds like one of these fancy schmancy AJAXy Web 2.0 thing-a-ma-websites, but you’d be amiss to think it so. No, 10 Numbers is the next DP Blogs photo challenge and it’s going to be a doozy. Stephanie has all the info at her project page. The purpose of this challenge is to see things in the world around us in a slightly different way. Here’s the project. Shoot things that look like the numbers 1 through 10, using found objects, shapes, people you see, etc.. Now, this doesn’t mean you should go to 10th street, take a picture of a 10 and post it. Instead, take a shot of a squash that looks like a 7 or a shot of a hose on your neighbor’s yard that looks like a 9. You don’t have to post the numbers in order, so if you find a great 4, post it. But you need to find all ten numbers over the course of the month. [...]
Comment by Digital Photography Blogs - SyncSpeed - Blog Archive » New DP Blogs Photo Challenge on April 28th, 2006 at 7:52 am
May we exchange links with your site?
Comment by temnotak on May 15th, 2006 at 1:07 am