Back in February I went to the Doctor Who convention here in Los Angeles. The main selling point this year for me was the fact that The Fifth Doctor [Peter Davison] would be appearing. I’ve been watching Doctor Who since I was 12 or so, and he’s always been my favorite but I’d never met him. The foremost objective of the day: get my picture with him.
This was to be relatively easy, as there were scheduled photo ops throughout the weekend. As I sat in line, dressed as his character from 30 years ago, I worked out how pitch my photo idea to him. Then it happened. This was clearly a “step up, smile, *flash*, move along” situation so I didn’t have much time to explain. I approached him, shook his hand and said, “I think it would be funny if we were back to back, and I looked really super-excited while you looked scared/angry or miserable.”
We took the shot, I shook his hand again and moved along. Probably 20 seconds with him, but this is the result:
I like it. A lot.
So much so, that I saw some potential here.
I don’t know how many of you Doctor Who fans read the Target Novelizations of the episodes back in they day, but my friend Bob and I collected the heck out of those things. We each had over a hundred at one point (although Bob had considerably more). I found my next challenge…to turn this picture into the Target Book cover of my OWN Fifth Doctor Adventure!
Here is THAT result:
I like it. A lot.
This is what I do with my time,
Kev
