A Funko Pilgrimage

During the first year of the pandemic, I started collecting diecast replicas of cars featured in my favorite movies. In year two, I took a headfirst dive down another pop culture rabbit hole, and started collecting Funko Pops. To justify my new hobby, I decided to photograph as many Pops as possible in their natural habitat. This special edition set of R2-D2 and C-3PO was photographed at the Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley, in the same place where George Lucas shot the corresponding scene from 1977's "Star Wars." If you look closely, you can see a tiny red ant just to the left of the plastic base.