All Day I Dream About Photography

Today is a special feature because Mike Stimpson is not only a great photographer but he is also a Lego lover.

Combining these two hobbies Mike is able to achieve wonderful pictures. Although he doesn’t shoot only Lego creations, I have decided to share with you today a very special collection of his work “Classics in Lego“.

In Classics in Lego is Mike reproduces world most famous images with a high level of fidelity and great care for details.

Before leaving you with the wonderful reproductions I will invite you to visit Mike’s gallery at flickr.

Disclaimer: All Lego pictures and text are from Mike Stimpson, original images are presented here, in low resolution, just for comparison with the reproduction and their copyright for it is most likely held by their original photographer.

Tiananmen Square

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A Lego recreation of Jeff Widener’s 1989 photograph of “The unknown rebel”.

Original taken from wikipedia

Raising the flag on Iwo Jima

A Lego recreation of Joe Rosenthal’s 1945 photograph “Raising the flag on Iwo Jima”. One of the most published photographs in history.

Original taken from wikipedia

Moon Landing

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon in 1969 – Photograph by Neil Armstrong

Original taken from wikipedia

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper

A lego reconstruction of the famous photograph taken by Charles Ebbets

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

Recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Behind the Gare Saint Lazare” in Lego

Original taken from After Image Gallery

4 Minute Mile

A Lego version of Norman Potter’s 1954 photograph of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, completing the distance in 3 min 59.4 sec at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, May 6, 1954.

Hand of God

A Lego recreation of Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal during the quarter finals of the 1986 World cup between England and Argentina.

Original taken from wikipedia

Reichstag Flag

A Lego recreation Soviet war photographer Yevgeny Khaldei’s 1945 photograph of the Red Army raising their flag on the German parliment building, the Rechistag, at the end of World War II.

Original taken from FamousPictures.org

The Walk to Paradise Garden

A Lego recreation of W. Eugene Smith’s 1946 photograph entitled “The Walk to Paradise Garden”. Taken of his children entering a forest clearing.

Original taken from Masters of Photography

Afghan Girl

A Lego recreation of Steve McCurry’s 1985 Time Magazine cover photograph of Sharbat Gula (previously known simply as “Afghan Girl” before her formal identification in 2002).

Original taken from wikipedia