Wolverine mini head bust from 2006 as designed by luminary illustrator Alex Ross and sculpts by Mike Hill, who, earlier in the year, won an Academy Award for Best Makeup & Hairstyling on Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film Frankenstein.

This morning’s impromptu inspiration had me visit our neighbours to photograph their bountiful garden, dog, then, return home to photograph our own dog and a couple of Marvel characters.

I used a Canon 6D M2 camera fitted with my favourite low-light 35mm, f/1.4 lens, where I captured subjects utilizing ambient lighting in raw, manual mode at f/1.4 – f/2.0, 1,000 iso – 2,000 iso then refined the images in Adobe Lightroom. I cannot get enough of a photograph having a tight focus on the subject with a creamy bokeh background.

Garden images include beans, lavender, tomatoes, and bourgeoning plants.

The neighbour’s dog Lucy, and below our dog Lilah.

Another Ross and Hill head bust creation—The Green Goblin.