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There where some severe thunderstorms north of here. All that we saw were some dramatic, pretty clouds.
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After my last afternoon off with all that snow, I thought it would be nice to have a drive out and visit the Ironbridge Gorge and take a picture of the world famous bridge...
Beautiful day in Davenport, IA by the mississippi
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A model and a museum volunteer strike a dramatic pose on the foot board of former CN H-6-g class 4-6-0 #1392. Model train manufacturer Rapido Trains has just announced production of a series of HO scale versions of the CN Ten Wheelers, with 1392 being one of them. A portion of the model sales will be donated to the Alberta Railway Museum outside of Edmonton, which is the home for the 1392. Although small and non profit, the museum has a dedicated team of volunteers that ensure the collection of CN and Northern Alberta Railway equipment is preserved for future generations to enjoy.
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Sometimes Franny just poses, so I broke out the flash and decided to make a photo shoot out of it!
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W 153. Photo: Gainsborough.
Anne Crawford (1920-1956) was a beautiful, sadly short-lived British leading lady with a gentle, good-humoured personality. From 1938 through 1954 she starred in 24 films.
Anne Crawford was born in 1920 in Haifa, Palestine (now Israel) as Imelda Anne Crawford. She was the child of an English mother and a Scottish father, who worked as a paymaster for the Palestine Railway. The family returned to Britain when she was 7 years old. Raised in Edinburgh, she went to school at St. Margrets convent in Marchmont. Afterward, she studied drama in Edinburgh and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London. Her professional career started at a repertory theatre in Manchester where she soon was playing juvenile leads. She changed her name from Imelda to Anne. She had a tiny role in Prison Without Bars (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1938) with Corinne Luchaire and Edna Best, and a better role in They Flew Alone (Herbert Wilcox, 1942) starring Anna Neagle. It was the smash hit Millions Like Us (Frank Launder, Sydney Gilliat, 1943) that crystalised her star persona: posh, selfish but basically a good sort. During her career, there were a few attempts to get away from this template, notably her poor mill worker in Master of Banksdam. During the war, she also appeared in such women's pictures as Two Thousand Women (Frank Launder, 1944) with Phyllis Calvert and Flora Robson, and They Were Sisters (Arthur Crabtree, 1945) with James Mason.
After the war, Anne Crawford became known for the wild Gainsborough melodrama Caravan (Arthur Crabtree, 1946) starring Stewart Granger and Jean Kent, and the classic horror film Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, 1948). In his Guide to British Cinema, Geoff Mayer writes, "Daughter of Darkness, with a budget of two hundred thousand pounds and three weeks of location shooting in Cornwall, was not a financial success and represented a setback to Comfort's career, which saw him relegated to low-budget films in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet the film's mixture of gothic and horror establishes it as one of the most startling British films of the 1940s." In 1953 she starred as Morgan Le Fay in Knights of the Round Table (Richard Thorpe, 1953), with Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner. She made her West End debut in 1949 in 'Western Wind' at the Piccadilly Theatre, followed by a not very successful stint on Broadway in 1951 in 'The Green Bay Tree'. Her television career ran in parallel to her film career, and in 1955 she topped a viewers poll for her performance in the BBC teleplay The Leader of the House. She died in 1956 in London of leukemia. She was 35. At the time of her death, she was appearing in the Agatha Christie play 'The Spider's Web', at the Savoy Theatre, London. Co-stars Margaret Lockwood, Patrick Barr, and Ronald Howard attended her funeral. Her resting place is the Kensal Green Cemetery. Anne Crawford was married to James Hartley (1939-?) and stage and television producer/director Wallace Douglas (1953-1956). David Absalom at British Pictures: "For modern audiences, Crawford's perceived poshness can seem a bit distancing, and it's hard to judge how her career would have panned out had she not died so early. I suspect she would have done okay. She showed enough wit and timing in her few comedy outings and there was always something of the grande dame about her to suggest that she would have only improved with age."
Sources: David Absalom (British Pictures), Fritz Tauber (Find A Grave), Find A Grave, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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I find that gratitude wells up on evening displays like this. I do not take for granted the wonderful amazing gift of sight to take this in.
This was the first image I captured during my shoot at Crystal Crescent Beach, and it was an obvious choice for me due to my love of lighthouses, one of the key reasons I wanted to explore this location. Adding to the appeal were the dramatic skies that set the perfect mood for the scene. The lighthouse in question is the Sambro Island Lighthouse, standing 25 meters tall.
Situated on an isolated island just off the shore, the lighthouse fits beautifully with the sense of seclusion I wanted to convey. However, by my rough estimate, it's about 5 kilometers from the beach, which made it appear quite small even at 600mm on my full-frame camera. I chose not to crop heavily, as doing so would sacrifice the incredible drama of the sky.
I also ambitiously attempted a long exposure, but the strong winds caused too much vibration for a clear shot. It’s a reminder that I’ll need to return to this spot and try again.