Today’s submission highlights the devolution of children’s toys. No matter what you do, toys break. Sometimes they break in massive numbers.

So, in my house, toys embody entropy.

I used my homemade lightbox and my Vivitar 285HV, via Pocket Wizard bounced off the ceiling, directly above. Then I color balanced and nudged up the contrast in Aperture. Next I moved to Photoshop to filter with the High Pass filter and some Unsharp Masking.

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