Amazing classic scenes from human history re-created with Lego Bricks 

Mike Stimpson a Flickr user known simply as Balakov, takes quite a lot of Lego pictures and loves messing about with macro lighting. Strobist.com taught him everything!. "I photograph to see what something will look like photographed" - Garry Winogrand, but Mike will also go along with that! Some of his popular stuff is available to buy at RedBubble. "I have a poster sized version of one of my Lego Stormtrooper portraits on my wall, and it's just unfair not to give everyone else the chance to have one too!"

Recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Behind the Gare Saint Lazare" in Lego

A lego reconstruction of the famous photograph taken by Charles Ebbets

A Lego recreation of Joe Rosenthal's 1945 photograph "Raising the flag on Iwo Jima". One of the most published photographs in history.

A Lego version of Norman Potter’s 1954 photograph of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, completing the distance in 3 min 59.4 sec at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, May 6, 1954.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon in 1969 - Photograph by Neil Armstrong

V-J Day in Times Square, New York, August 14, 1945 (© Time Inc) by Alfred Eisenstaedt