The awesome pop-culture references in two of these four photos are reason enough to admire the work of toy and lego photographer Mike Stimpson. The American Beauty-inspired stormtrooper under roses and the reconstruction of Charles Ebetts’ famous 1932 photo Lunch Atop a Skyscraper are wonderfully shot and imaginative.

Stimpson, or Balakov as he’s also known, has a pretty substantial Flickr Photostream where you can find hundreds of other photographs he’s taken. If you like one enough to purchase it, the site redbubble.com offers prints and postcards for as low as five bucks.

I wonder if he’ll enter the PHOTOBAMA freestyle CONTEST?