Hot Toys Jake Sully *and* Neytiri (new pix Sept. 22)

[davidd]

I'm impressed by your butterfly wrangling talent! These are fun pix. Thanks for including the image you were emulating for comparison.

Since you haven't found a place to move to, have you considered perhaps planting your own forest with some kind of fast-growing trees, maybe aspens or poplars? String an electrified barbwire fence along the perimeter, lay down a mine field a yard (meter) or two wide, and then plant several rows of hybrid poplar saplings.

The pictures are cool. Your Na'vi figures are fun and photogenic action figures and you make the most of them in your photos!

[Alliecat]

Show us, rubyperidot?




I'd like to have done more photos of Jake & Neytiri with more butterflies, but, there isn't a lot of nice space left to do it in the yard, and things get more complicated with multiple butterflies.  Maybe next year.





I'm so disappointed at Jake's eyes having clouded; don't know yet what to do about that... On the other hand they made Neytiri's rather stare-y, so there are bad photo angles for both of them.  Although it kinda works here.



There's just the smallest area left out back to do this.  My beautiful mossy woodland setting is no more.  I have to be very creative with angles.






I wasn't real happy with a lot of these.  The light was hard to catch, and many weren't sharp.  They should've been tripod shots.  Oh well -- you can't tell with the small versions!











If we EVER get any rain, maybe I'll take them back to the waterfall and find some water in it.  By then there'll be autumn leaves though, and that doesn't look very Pandoran!

Thanks for looking.

[rubyperidot]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226682681819

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/396756517169

Are the eBay listings for the blue baby/elf dolls.

They are all vinyl as purchased but I swapped them onto (sadly not blue) soft bodies and dressed them as boys.

Edit to add that if you click on the see original listing on completed listings you can still see all the photos.

[davidd]

I suppose you could paint over Jake's existing eyes. Well, I don't know if you could, or would; but one of those doll hobbyists with mad eye painting skillz might tackle such a project.

Nevertheless, Jake looks super cool in these woodland photos. They both do. You used the dappled sunlight to dramatic effect here, creating a sense of a sylvan glen, an escape from the developed world.

Did mosquitoes accompany your woodland adventure? From what you have said in the past, it seems like mosquitoes are a regular fixture among the scenic vistas in your part of the world.