The APhOL

I'm an Adult Photographer Of LEGO. 🇮🇹

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Hello Tumblr nation!

My name is Marco and I'm from Italy. I've been shooting LEGO since 2015 after a looong dark age which lasted more than a couple of decades. The spark was a reference to vintage: the LEGO IDEAS DeLorean and the Ghostbusters HQ. After that moment I merged my passion for photography with LEGO.

Being able to shoot my own world and telling an infinite number of stories? Wake up creativity! There's food for you!

During this journey I joined @brickcentral as one of the mods and I witnessed how creative and energizing this community could be.

My favorite themes are basically vintage ones, so space, castle, western and, above all, pirates! I also like to shoot cyberpunk or post apocalypse, which unfortunately are themes that LEGO never did. Lucky me I can create my own worlds and tell an infinite number of stories!

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Wandering

Of course this shot is inspired by the comeback feelings i had watching the recent Fallout TV show.

I love the game and the show brought back all the memories

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Crying ghost

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*ROAR*

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"Welcome to Jurassic Park"

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Watering plants

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Hidden in sight

This is a MOD of the blacksmith kitchen to make it looks like a tavern.

Not a big amount of work, is just a matter of tearing down some walls and place small tables around.

Customers are actually sitting on the floor because adding the chairs would have raised to much the chests.

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A real Jurassic World

Not sure i would live in it, tho. That fisherman looks too much comfortable...

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Thanks to @lego and @brickcentral i had the chance to shoot the new wave of Jurassic sets and finally! A brachio!!!!

Now just give me a stego!

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Bandit.

Thae blacksmith is super versatile, it offers a lot of inspirations for photography

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Into the witch's hut

What if someone lurks into an old hut in the forest (classic) and find out there's an old woman there, bent over the fire, intent on stirring a cauldron?

And what if she KNOWS you're there?

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The lord is calling

Yes, i'm in a fantasy mood since the beginning of the year.

Maybe because i've recently bought the Frazetta artbook, which is a great inspiration.

Fantasy is the real theme that we need, LEGO.

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Mystery ruins

I shoot this picture years ago. I've completely forgotten that i had it in my drive. This was shot on my terrace and the snow is totally real

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A bit of halloween

October is one of the best month of the year when it comes down to inspiration. I have always a lot of ideas, but, as usual, my main constraint is time...

Here's some pictures i did with "spooky" as a driver.

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Halloween at granny's "what big sweets you have"

This pic is made using the LEGO Ideas pop-up book with the Little Red Hood scenario.

If the wolf want to be the granny, then he should pay the consequences.

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Strength test

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Ahoy matey!! Today is "Talk like a pirate day"!

Well, may I go to Davy Jones' locker if this is not the worst bunch of scurvy seadogs I've ever seen!

I be needin to swill a pint or two of grog before starting...