Call Me a Dreamer

I would like to direct your attention to Terry Karney, aka pecunium. Terry is a pretty cool guy. I've gotten to know him a little bit through his journal. He served as a member of the Army for many years and is now a civilian again. He posts beautiful photographs and thoughtful essays.

Terry Karney has a dream. He wants to travel the less-trodden paths of Great Britain, taking pictures and journaling as he goes. He first posted about The Brass Ring" yesterday. I love his description of his dream in his follow-up post today:

When they say, "name your dream", this is one of mine. Toad and his gyspy wagon. The time on the canal.... following the mule. That was what I flashed on. The Wind in the Willow was one of the shaping books of my youth. When I was a kid in Ohio we had a wood behind the house, about four acres. That's a fair chunk of tangled deadfall and mysterious nooks and crannies. It was where I set Bagder's House in my minds eye (there was a patch of fallen branches which was covered in leaves an twigs and snow in the winter. Beneath it was a small bit of dark dryness. The wood-rats Ratty scared off with his brace of pistols and cudgel could have lived in it).

Those are some of the things I would love to catch.

And the morning light, Otter's, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", which I've always tied into Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (why yes, my mind is a strange clutter of bizarre free association).

You can help him achieve this dream. The Name Your Dream Assignment contest, sponsored by Lenovo and Microsoft, is offering $50,000, plus a digital camcorder and the Lenovo® ThinkPad® W700ds with Microsoft Windows Vista^®, to the photographer whose assignment has the most votes.

In order to vote for an assignment, you do have to sign up, but there is no fee for doing so. If you'd like to help pecunium achieve his dream, please click the image below: