I also got a pony, and a balloon.

[jacktellslies]

Ages ago, before I left to travel, my friends Penny and Liam and Lady Tapestry allowed me to dress up like a clockwork conductor, brought me to an abandoned steam train overgrown with plants and home to spiders and a beehive, gave me a sword and a mask made of brass, and allowed me to pretend that the train was my TARDIS while they took my picture. I can't actually imagine a better day.

This series of Penny as a (the!) Cartographer, however, are flawless:





Her new Flickr account, clearly, will be one to watch.

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Entirely charming!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/__uptight/]

first of all, up the steampunx.

second, these pictures are lovely.

third, you are a beautiful animal. i just got a glorious new camera and am photographing everything the light touches (that is to say, not the elephant graveyard), so if i ever happen to see you on the streets somewhere sometime, i am taking your soul. regardless of how you look and what you are wearing. this is not a request.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Would you care to set a date sometime? I'm busy until after the holidays, but I'd like to get better at modelling, and being bossed around by photographers seems to be the best way to do that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__uptight/]

i'd love to! my only qualm is i like my pictures to be less me directing the model and more just capturing the model doin' what the do naturally, with maybe a little prodding from me to get the best shot. this is sort of what i mean.
it's always been sort of spontaneous, i've never organized anything before.
but, i feel like the two - direction and sponteneity - can be intertwined if you're in your element and i just happen to direct you. I DON'T KNOW, LET'S COLLAB. this can be a learning experience for both of us!

anyway, i'm free every weekend after...january 17th. so just pick a weekend, that part's up to you.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

! Are these yours? They're really good! I don't often have off on weekends, but I'll let you know if I do.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__uptight/]

yeah, they are, and thank you so much! that means a lot! and that was with a digital elph! i figure with this crazy thousand dollar DSLR i should be able to like, blow something up or shoot lasers out of the lense or something, but i haven't figured out how to do it yet.

ugh, you don't? not even weekend nights? that's the only time i can be in philly as i work and attend school in jersey during the week. i guess just stay in touch then! you have my info (read: my livejournal that i check obsessively).

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

I sometimes have off on Sunday evenings. I'll keep you updated.

[belovdpoet.livejournal.com]

What wonderful pictures; the atmosphere, all the lovely details...I'm not sure whether I'm more envious of you and your friends for being in them, or merely having put them together so well!

[jezebellydancer.livejournal.com]

Once again, I'm rendered speechless. These are fabulous.

Should Penny have need of other props for her pictures, please let me know. I have an assortment of weirdness around the house.

one track mind

[experiment666.livejournal.com]

the blade of that sword, is it skinny (less than half an inch across at a midpoint) or is it more like a broad sword (1/2 inch to an inch across at the midpoint)

Re: one track mind

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

I haven't the slightest. This was months ago.