lightcastle

As promised elsewhere, a year in pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lcastellucci/sets/72157632390707121/with/8329204857/

Basically one picture per day on which I took them. (I gave myself some leeway for events crossing midnight.) I did not always pick what I might consider the "best" picture of the day, just the most evocative of things happening.

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Leaving the metro today, I found Montreal had been suddenly wreathed in fog.

The streetlights turned into gaslights from the Victorian era, and the park into a lonely stretch of moor.

I once had a friend of mine who tends bar tell me that she always treated me well at the bar because I was good at running interference. Namely, in cases where there was a client (almost exclusively male) who was having trouble with respecting the boundaries and personal space of herself or other clients at the bar, I was good at acting as an extra distraction to help keep the pressure off the intended target.

This weekend, after rehearsal, I grabbed a coffee with my friend Kendall on the way to a photo shoot she was doing with a new photographer. Since the old port is often difficult to navigate and she had a big valise of clothing, I walked her to the shoot proper.

The photographer greeted us outside, invited us into his gorgeous Old Port apartment, and explained how he had seen her stuff online, and she needed his "eye, and vision. While I need your youth and colour." Then he offered to go get alcohol.

I turned to Kendall and asked if she wanted me to stay for a bit to keep an eye on Captain Sketch of Sketchytown. I stayed the whole time.

I know there are sketchy "photographers" whose entire goal is to have half-naked women in their house. I just hadn't actually run into one yet.

My reward for the good deed Saturday was carrot ginger soup, nan-bread with garlic, and watching the 1980 Flash Gordon so Kendall could go nuts about the costuming, so I was well recompensed.

It upsets me that I still need to run interference.

Since I am apparently looking all Claude Rains-esque (or at least "WWII Black and White Film") with the Movember mustache, anyone interested in helping me set up a vintage film photo shoot?

Does anyone have a good idea for putting together a catburgler costume?

My co-worker wants me to shoot her wedding. Or at the very least, to put a bid in so she can decide. I know some of you have paid for such and/or engaged yourself as such. Any thoughts on a ballpark? This would include an album at the end and all, although I could just give her a CD and let her find a place that makes albums out of it.

Unsurprisingly, part of me is hesitant as this is the kind of thing people are REALLY attached to and you pretty much only have one shot at it.

(Note: I did not do the Photoshop here, it was done by a friend of Maery's.)

Details on the lightcastle site.

I turn to the grand Internet Mind for some brainstorming about a couple of projects I have worked on.

First: I need to take a picture representing "nothing". I'm mulling a few ideas, but am happy to hear suggestions from people.

Second: Anyone have some good ideas about who I should kill in 1492-1494 Florence for a noir-esque graphic novel? (Yes, this will involve echoes of the Pazzi conspiracy, but won't actually be about it.)

My very first photoshoot for which I am being paid was last weekend.

The subject is reviewing the pics now, her sister will review them this weekend.

I am surprised at just how nervous I actually am about this.