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By day, Aaron Liepman is a biology professor at Eastern Michigan University. By night he's not just playing with LEGO; he's painting them by hand.

"Photography is painting with light, and so you have to have the right subject and have the right location. You have to have the right light," he said. "It's sort of like fishing.