A Thousand Shades of Twilight

Flickr Funsters #4- brooke8trout

one is the loneliest, originally uploaded by brooke8trout.

Just one look at Brooke's avatar (not to mention her super-fine collection of images) will confirm her genius. Her eye for a beautiful, sad or amusing image is unfailing. Her sense of humour slays me. Her naughtiness is most refreshing - she inspires the type of forbidden laughter one might have with one's siblings.

To her eternal credit, when I asked her about a featurette on this blog, her response was:
You have my permission to defame, exploit, or flatter me therein as you see fit!
What a gal!

Brooke. So grody, darling.

Flickr Funsters #3 - Eliz. Avery

Mary Mary Quite Contrary... and clinically depressed too, I'd say., originally uploaded by eliz.avery.

What can I say about the wonderful Eliz. Avery? She is a living treasure and I feel very lucky to have found her. She is warm, witty, smart as a whip, sees the funny side of bleak situations and has an irrepressibly generous spirit. She's had an interesting life, writes like a pro and also makes beautiful mosaics. She also has one of the best collections of children's book illustrations I've seen on Flickr. I would also recommend her excellent blog, Love, Elizabeth (there's a link in my sidebar!)

She also thinks that people going cross-eyed is a hoot, which scores big votes in my book!

This image is my favourite of a set Eliz posted featuring the one and only Charles Addams illustrating nursery rhymes in his own unique way. I love it to death.

Flickr Funsters #2 - Bloomfield and George

Carrick-Hill-2, originally uploaded by bloomfield and george.

I'll try to keep this as balanced and objective as possible, given I'm incredibly one-eyed about Bloomfield and George.

B and G takes beautiful photos using only the finest of vintage equipment, such as the Spartus Full Vue and the Holga. To me, his images alternate between the nostalgic and melancholy, the joyfully breezy or a mixture of both. He sees the fantastic in the everyday and causes one to look at familiar places afresh. He's also dedicated to capturing the Art Deco of Adelaide before it disappears.

I particularly like this shot for, as the description suggests, it makes Carrick Hill look like the type of joint where Mrs Danvers would happily reside...

Flickr Funsters #1 - Nomi Malone

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Miserable cow, originally uploaded by Nomi Malone.

From time to time I'd like to feature some of the images posted by the excellent characters I have come across on Flickr. Here's an image from Nomi Malone's Flickr page. He has described his site as 'riddled with trash, smut and camp glamour'. It may seem an odd match for a Fey and Wistful Recovering Melancholic like myself. But in amongst the cross-dressing lesbian bondage freaks you will also find doleful beauties like the one pictured here, some atmospheric fan polaroids of stars taken in the 70s and sets dedicated to those most melancholic of glamour models, The Berry (Marisa Berenson) and The Tree (Penelope Tree) (the latter having a song dedicated to her by that most melancholic of bands, Felt. The song was called 'Penelope Tree'.)