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Ray (on the left) and friend, in the tiny town of "Country Boy", when Ray was about 2.5 his mother, Mabel, took the picture, as indicated by the shadow at the bottom of the picture).
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To the best of my knowledge, most of the photos in this Flickr album were taken by my grandmother, Mabel Yourdon, during the 1920, 30s, and 40s. Most of them depict scenes of everyday life in mining camps and small towns near the Utah-Colorado border. Some of them show hunting, fishing, and camping trips in unspecified parts of the American west. It appears that a few of them were taken in southern California, when Mabel and her husband Ike traveled out there to visit relatives.
I have no idea what kind of camera Mabel used for these photos, nor what kind of film. There probably wasn’t that much variety available in the 1920s, and she was not a “professional” photographer. So it may have been a Brownie and whatever B/W film Kodak was selling at the time.
My stepfather, Ray Yourdon, was born in 1922; and his older brother, Marvin, was born two years before that. You’ll see photos of Ray and Marvin when they were young boys, when they were in high school, and when they went off to join the Navy and the Marines to fight in World War II.
Somewhere around 2005, I asked Ray if he could tell me the details of some of the photos; where possible, I have included those details in the notes for the photos. Some of the photos obviously evoked pleasant memories, and I heard stories about minor day-to-day events in his life that I had never heard before. But we rarely got through more than a few pictures before he ran out of energy; and so many of the photos have no explanation at all.
At this point, my parents and grandparents are all gone. I have cousins who grew up in the same area where these photos were taken, and one or two of them are still in that area. They may be able to fill in a few of the details; otherwise, you’ll just have to accept these photos as a glimpse of what life was like nearly a hundred years ago ...
Hope everybody has a great Monday and there is a ray of hope that the weekend is only 4 more days after today.
This was standing on top of Little River Falls. If you can't beat the sun then use it in your shot.
La Défense depuis la Tour Eiffel, Paris, FRANCE
Camera : Nikon D7000
Lens : Nikon 70-200mm
Trépied : Yes
HDR 5 RAW
"It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning."
[C.B. - 1954]
Dico solo che.
Che quando conosci qualcuno davvero,
una fotografia ha tutto un altro sapore.
Il resto lo raccontano i raggi di sole tra le nuvole di quest'agosto d'inferno.
On Tuesday I had three missed calls on my mobile. Obviously someone was trying to get hold of me! It was a young woman who had seen our poster advertising 'Ray' in a local pet food store. They had been looking for him for a couple of months. He had been booked in to be neutured and 'disappeared' three days before the event. His real name is John - Ginger John - lol. I think it is really funny that both of us named him a solid man's name which lets you know what kind of guy Ray/John is. His history is that he was abandoned when his owner couldn't keep him and 'dumped' in our local college's car park. This woman and her partner took him in. They have one other cat who is female and already neutured. Phill was home early, so we arranged that they come round and collect him (they live a couple of small roads away). Our cats were absolutely delighted when he went. Kaiser became totally relaxed again and I realised just how tense he had been with Ray around. So result all round as we thought.
But just as I was going to post this, Phill shouted "Ray's back"!! And at the exact same moment my neighbour text me to say Ray is sitting on my shed - lol I have just texted the owners and the reply came back that he had not settled back with them - he was very edgy the whole time (they have a small child as well). They are more than willing to try again but said that like us they just want him to have a good home and that if we want to keep him they will understand. Oh what a dilemma! Kaiser gets so so upset when Ray is around, but I think Ray could be a loving boy once he is neutured - it's just getting him done! I am going to contact the vet to ask their advice.
We are off to my sister's this evening to attend my youngest niece's wedding tomorrow (we are actually taking the photos!). So all this will have to wait until our return
Because always in the darkness exists a ray of light and you are one of this
Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun
<3 u palomita
Nunca dejes de sonreir
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1973
CAST:
John Philip Law (Sinbad), Tom Baker (Koura), Douglas Wilmer (The Grand Vizier), Caroline Munro (Marigiana), Martin Shaw (Rachid), Kurt Christian (Haroun), Takis Emmanuel (Achmed)
PRODUCTION:
Director – Gordon Hessler, Screenplay – Brian Clemens, Story – Brian Clemens & Ray Harryhausen, Producers – Ray Harryhausen & Charles H. Schneer, Photography – Ted Moore, Music – Miklos Rosza, Visual Effects – Ray Harryhausen, Production Design – John Stoll. Production Company – Morningside. USA 1973
SYNOPSIS:
Sinbad fires an arrow at a strange creature that flies over his ship, causing it to drop the amulet it is carrying. Ashore, the sorcerer Koura attempts to forcibly take the amulet from Sinbad. Sinbad is granted refuge by the benevolent ruler of the city, the Grand Vizier, who has been forced to hide his face behind a beaten gold mask after Koura burnt it with a fireball. The Vizier shows Sinbad a companion amulet and the drawing of a third one. All three form a map that leads to a fountain of youth on the island of Lemuria. With the complete amulet, The Grand Vizier will be able to stop Koura’s ravages on the kingdom. And so Sinbad and the Vizier set sail on an expedition to Lemuria. However, Koura desires the amulet too, wanting to regain the youth that each spell he casts steals from him, and sets sail determined to stop them.
COMMENTARY:
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was a landmark in fantasy cinema. It was often imitated over the next decade. Most importantly, it brought to prominence the name of special effects man Ray Harryhausen and his fantastical creatures. Ray Harryhausen was a specialist in the process of stop-motion animation where models are meticulously moved and photographed one frame at a time. Harryhausen went onto a substantial career over the next two decades, creating similar flights of fantasy. (See below for Ray Harryhausen’s other films). He would revisit the Sinbad mythos twice, here and later with the disappointing Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is one of Ray Harryhausen’s most acclaimed works and one that shows him at the height of his art.
With The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Ray Harryhausen employed director Gordon Hessler, who emerged out of the English horror cycle in the late 1960s (see below for Gordon Hessler’s other titles) and Brian Clemens on script. Brian Clemens had worked as script editor on tv’s The Avengers (1962-9), wrote a number of films during the English horror cycle and went on to create series such as The New Avengers (1976-8), The Professionals (1977-83) and Bugs (1995-8). (See below also for Brian Clemens’s other titles). Most Ray Harryhausen films tend to be set around Harryhausen’s provision of creature effects, with the intervening action being stolid and his leading men tending to a uniform woodenness. Although the dialogue here has a tendency to fall in clunky pseudo-profound aphorisms at times, Brian Clemens creates probably one of the more nuanced scripts for any Ray Harryhausen film. Particularly original is the character of the sorcerer Koura who ages every time he casts a spell.
Brian Clemens and Ray Harryhausen also plunder world mythology somewhat indiscriminately, ending up with what often seems a peculiar multi-cultural polyglot – there is Kali from Hindu religion, a griffin and combination centaur/cyclops from the Greek myths, the homunculus from mediaeval alchemy, Lemuria (an idea that was posited by biologist Ernst Haeckel in the 1870s, preceding the notion of continental drift, of a sunken land in order to explain how lemurs managed to get between Africa and India and one that was quickly appropriated by the 19th Century Theosophist movement), and of course the backdrop from the Arabian Nights cycle. This is the less important than the spectacular beauty of Ray Harryhausen’s various set-pieces which, by this time, were at the absolute peak of their form. Harryhausen offers us a six-armed statue of Kali brought to life in a sword-duel; a to-the-death battle between a griffin and a cyclopean centaur; a magically animated ship’s figurehead; and, best of all, the homunculus that Tom Baker brings to life, teasing and prodding it, as it lies pinned to a table.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is also notable for many of the up-and-coming stars. There is Tom Baker who, the following year, would become the fourth incarnation of tv’s Doctor Who (1963-89); cult queen Caroline Munro; and Martin Shaw, later hunk hero of Clemens’ superior action man tv show The Professionals.
Ray Harryhausen’s other films are:– The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), the granddaddy of all atomic monster films; the giant atomic octopus film It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955); the alien invader film Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956); the alien monster film 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960); the Jules Verne adaptation Mysterious Island (1961); the Greek myth adventure Jason and the Argonauts (1963); the H.G. Wells adaptation The First Men in the Moon (1964); the caveman vs dinosaurs epic One Million Years B.C. (1966); the dinosaur film The Valley of Gwangi (1969); Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977); and the Greek myth adventure Clash of the Titans (1981).
Brian Clemens’s other scripts are:– The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), Curse of the Voodoo/Curse of Simba (1965), And Soon the Darkness (1970), See No Evil/Blind Terror (1971), Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), the Disney ghost story The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991). Clemens also wrote and directed Hammer’s Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1972). He has acted as script editor and producer on the tv series’ The Avengers, The New Avengers, The Professionals and Bugs.
Gordon Hessler’s other films are:– Scream and Scream Again (1969), The Oblong Box (1969), Cry of the Banshee (1970), Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971), Kiss Meets the Phantom/Kiss in the Attack of the Phantom (1978) and The Girl in a Swing (1988)
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[...] But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun [...]
-- Quote by William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
Nikon D70, Sigma 70-300 f/4-5.6 APO Macro, 270mm - f/5.6 - 1/60s - Old paper texture
Rome, Italy (December, 2010)
X-Ray Boy is so happy that soon will be Christmas day, he loves everything related to Christmas, but his older sister always says to him that he should like Halloween because of the way he looks... He doesn't really care the way he looks, he loooves Christmas because it makes him happy!
X-Ray Boy is made of black polar fleece and white felt, he measures around 12 1/2 inches tall(31cm) and 7 inches wide(18cm) from the widest part.
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Raynas eyes are like rain and she seems to be in a poetically pensive mood today. Perhaps it is the rain...
What looked to be a promising sunset soon went dull, but before the sun vanished completely it left some nice rays across the sky.
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Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 24-105mm L f4
Hitech ND 0.9 Reverse Grad
Paper: 5 cm DC
Modules: 24
Model: Meenakshi Mukerji
Book: Origami Inspirations p. 16-17
Easy fold, nice stable model with tons of variations. Used two colours of dotted DC paper with the same dark green on the back side to arrive at a one coloured star.
Edit: Replace photo by a better one.
1910 Thornton Pickard Imperial Full plate camera shot with “Blue” X-Ray film (ISO200) - lens is Ross 10” Homocentric F8
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sunrise at Ketewel Beach, Bali - Indonesia
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(Haiku)
Sunshine or rainfall
The Son is my Ray of Hope
He helps me cope
~KMB eagle_eyes_87 (c) 2011)~
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I recently found some encouraging scriptures in the Living Bible that had Ray of Hope
Lamentations 3:21-26
Yet there is one ray of hope: His compassion never ends. It is only The Lord's mercies
that has kept us from complete destruction. Great is His faithfulness; His loving-kindness begins afresh each day. My soul claims the Lord as my inheritance; therefore I will hope in Him.The Lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for Him, to those who seek for Him. It is both good to hope and wait quietly for the salvation of The Lord.