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Derby Day
Rockport, MA
With guest photographer, and favorite 5-year-old, Simon. He's pretty good, eh? Please note inclusion of seagull on roof behind me.
Simon's dad is a native Kentuckian, so we Derby it up on Derby Day, complete with sweet tea, Benedictine finger sandwiches, Derby pie and of course, plenty of Mint Juleps. See my fancy plastic jockey hat? A fine day all around. My pick for horses, Pants on Fire, did not win but made a strong effort toward the end. Pants on Fire still wins the Kentucky Derby, in my book, for best name.
The only other thing I have to report from last week is: Allergies. Full force. (Please note red eyeballs). No comment. If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.
(detail) National Velvet, 1963. Silkscreen ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas (1928-1987) SFMOMA
Production key-set master prints of Elizabeth Taylor from The Girl Who Had Everything by Virgil Apger.
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. But what a cast? Won the Oscar for best art direction.
It was Sir Aubrey Smith's last movie. He died shortly after making this movie.
Production key-set master prints of Elizabeth Taylor with Larry Parks from Love Is Better Than Ever.
Production key-set master prints of Elizabeth Taylor from National Velvet by Clarence Sinclair Bull.
ca. 1950s --- Picture shows Elizabeth Taylor ... her flawless beauty makes this unusual part-portrait of the girl who has been called "The Beauty of her Generation," perhaps the century. Undated photo circa 1950s. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
Elizabeth Taylor was once dubbed the most beautiful woman in the world. It's not hard to see why in this lovely photo of her. I merged it with one of my water lily shots, and the two seem to play off each other beautifully!
This reminds me of something that happened to me in 1984. I married a man I'd been in love with for six years. It was a doomed marriage, and everything started off on the wrong foot, right down to the wedding photos, which the photographer didn't do a very good job of.
I had asked for several double exposures, since I'd seen many that were absolutely beautiful, but unfortunately, he wasn't very experienced at them, I guess, and I only got one, which left something to be desired. I was disappointed, which is one reason I'll never do wedding photos for a living. I would never want the responsibility of capturing a once in a lifetime moment and possibly botching it up!
Looking at these layered photos, I know that I could take my old wedding photos and possibly superimpose them together, or add a seascape, or something interesting to them, and I might do that one of these days. My ex never got copies, and I don't know if he'd want them or not, but as far as I'm concerned, he could have the originals if I could create something better out of them for myself.
Anyway, I've been wanting to do this sort of thing for a long time now, and I'm so happy that I've stumbled upon a site where I could do it!
The face on this Elizabeth Taylor doll is breathtakingly beautiful and uncannily looks just as Liz Taylor looked at that age. Mattel really did a super job in recreating her face.
This doll is from the classic and very funny movie “Father of the Bride” staring Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy.
She was released in 2000 and is part of the Timeless Treasures Collection, Celebrity Dolls by Mattel.
I am going through all my dolls and trying to make a call on which to keep and which to sell. Very hard to do.
But, you know, everything in life has a purpose and if that purpose is not fulfilled, I feel it goes against Universal Law. And, this beautiful doll’s purpose is not to be shut in a dark temp controlled closet until I die and then disposed of as my heirs see fit.
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