These are just unbelievably marvelous!  I was reading the Honky-Tonk Dragon’s site, and saw that he had posted about these most Steampunk of photographs by Mr and Mrs ParkeHarrison.  They’re just amazing!  From the above image of an everyman (actually Mr Parkeharrison) sent out to adjust one of the underturf cogs – to another image showing the tethering of cloud clusters – to a monocyclic eccentric, trying to catch the lightning!  It’s all beautiful stuff – and all the moreso for being done with old style collage and paper negatives, as well as setting up the scenes and props themselves.

What an amazing world they have created in black and white images – one where the land is bleak and overcast, and nameless toilers tweak and fix and try to make it better.