I'm a Nerd. And a Dork. And possibly a Geek as well. My whole life has been about video games and toys and comics and movies and. . .

I've been trying to incorporate my geek passions into my photography when I can. It isn't as often as I like, and when the chance comes up I try to jump on it.

So when a friend makes a suit of Halo armor out of stiffened cardboard? Holy shit, YES!

PJ's mom has a studio in the building I'm in. A mutual friend told me that PJ likes to make costumes out of folded cardboard so I contacted him to see what he had been up to. When he emailed me with a snapshot of him in his Halo armor, I instantly had to make this a personal photo series, and PJ was absolutely up for it.

My buddy Jeff came along and was generous enough to shoot some BTS images (that I incorporated into my Holdfast MoneyMaker review ((thanks Jeff!)).

I wanted to keep the gear light - I only had three lenses and one light with me (a wide-angle lens, a telephoto lens and my Petzval)

Here are a bunch of the final shots. I'm really really happy with how these came out.

To see more images from the session, check out the series as I've posted it over on Flickr.

And, for those who have played Halo online, I simply had to do this because I might never get the chance to do it in real-life ever again:

Teabagged in real life. A personal geek accomplishment ;)

Here are a few behind-the-scenes shots:

Thanks again to Jeff for getting a bunch of BTS stuff.

Photograph what you love. It might be flowers, or dogs, or thimbles, or pencils, or birds, or toys, or games, or whatever. Photograph what you have always been passionate about. Show the world what you love. Love what you show the world.