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I think it all starts with your camera. I stumbled back to the Lego hobby a year ago after reading Jonathan Bender's Lego book. My wife is an amature photographer, so I had a really nice camera at my disposal with a great lense for close ups. I use a canon d50 digital. I built a light box out of construction paper and a printer paper box. My pics are by no means the greatest - there are some at my mocpages account: http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/48018 You can see my progression from not knowing at all how to do this, to taking some at least respectable shots. I've also started to experiment with outdoor lego photography. Here's the outdoor blog I just started: http://mybigbrickyard.blogspot.com/ You should have access to microsoft picture manager if you have office 03/07. That's a great resource for enhancing your images - manipulating the color, brightness, size, etc. I have to say that I enjoy the artistic photography element almost as much as the build itself. Really enhances the hobby. Good luck.

Not too long. I typically think of the subject matter at work, then prepare and shoot when I get home. Maybe half hour or so. I tend to take 20-30 shots of each scene to make sure I get a few good photos to choose from. Thanks for looking. Please pass on to anyone you think would be interested. I'd like to get ad much exposure as possible.

Thanks all. I would love to have some viewer submissions as well (complete with credit to the photographer). Feel free to email me if interested: chicagoblackhawks77@gmail.com

Hey guys, Just started a blog on the outdoor use of Lego. Basically taking photos of mocs, sets, minifigs in my backyard and messing around with my camera. Would love to gain more followers / opinions / pic submissions... http://mybigbrickyard.blogspot.com/ LMK what you guys think.

Hey all, Just started a new blog: http://mybigbrickyard.blogspot.com/ Would love to hear your thoughts / gain some followers / pic submissions.

Relax dude. Didn't see that you had moved the first one. Didn't realize this was so serious... Also, had already looked on moc pages for mods and could not find anything. Thanks brickdr on the suggestions. Going to tackle this today.

anyone have any success in expanding the rear shuttle area to accommodate more troops?

8019 Mods just picked up an 8019 republican shuttle at tru today. Always like that one and hadn't seen it for a while in stores. It's an 09 set, so I guess I got lucky. Love the looks of this set. I want to expand the troop / cargo area to accomodate more troops. Anyone have any success doing this?