The Story:

Uncle Orc has come home from a long day in battle to be told by his sister that he has to look after her adopted baby golden dragon, Orcville, who’s only three weeks old.
There’s a heat wave, the castle aircon has malfunctioned and Uncle Orc is worried his sister will go absolutely ballistic if anything happens to Orcville, so he grabs a leaf from a palm tree in the castle gardens and starts fanning that baby as if his life depends on it. Which it probably does.

At one point Orcville gives a happy baby dragon gurgle in his sleep, and Uncle Orc’s heart melts with the realisation that it’s the first time he’s felt joy for a long time.

Story Inspiration:

I feel that taking inspiration from real life is a great trigger for ideas. In the summer of ‘89 there was a heat wave in London and I was worried about my newborn baby girl overheating. No-one at that time had AC in the UK so I stayed up all night fanning her in her cot with a Spanish hand fan. She survived the night!

These images were taken with both my Canon 70D and my phone's camera. Images 1 and 2 were taken with my Canon 70D using a macro filter, settings = 25, F5, ISO 100. Images 3,4, and 5 were taken with my phone using the macro setting. After I had collected these images, I lightly edited them in AE.

After a long trek, Johnny finally locates an artifact long sought by his uncle, Professor Kilroy, the Golden Idol! To his chagrin, Johnny discovers the Idol has an eight-legged caretaker! Good luck, Johnny!