I have such a love/hate relationship with New England it’s where I grew up so I don’t really want to move but at the same time photographic chances are minimal during the year. Right now during the winter it gets dark extremely early like four in the afternoon, like before I even get out of work early. Most of the year, everything outside is kind of brown and dying nothing stays green for very long outside of the spring/summer. Today’s picture of the day seems to contradict my earlier statements about New England, but don’t believe the picture it’s a trick.

Seeing how outside photography is not always available throughout the year because of the aforementioned dreary weather and my lack of motivation to go outside when it is only in the teens, I have started to experiment with doing more indoor photography again. I didn’t really like the plain white backgrounds as it is too plain for my tastes, I do like to use patterned/textured backgrounds. I either use fabric or wrapping paper or in a few cases some of my actual clothes as backdrops (yesterday’s picture of Kureha actually used a dress of mine as a backdrop and the pink/black leopard print is actually a hoody of mine). Today’s picture was a new experiment, I used an older photo that I had taken of the local rose garden during the summer as the backdrop. The idea of using pictures themselves as a backdrop occurred to me late last night while I was digging through my many gigs of photos and noticing how many pictures I had taken of various places while I was out shooting dollfies etc. this picture for example was from when I took the Rozen Maiden pullips to the rose garden. I am fairly happy with the photographic result so I will probably use this method again when I think of images that would fit certain figures.

The figure I chose for today is Good Smile Company’s Shinku of Rozen Maiden. I love Rozen Maiden, it is one of my favorite animes it actually got me back into watching anime a few years ago after I had gone on a hiatus for a while. This is favorite figure of Shinku, I couldn’t think of a better figure for this experiment when I seen the photo of the rose garden again last night.