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British postcard in the 'Cinema Stars' series of Lilywhite Ltd., No. C M 97. Fox Picture Star.
Albert Ray (1897–1944) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He appeared in 22 films between 1915 and 1921 and he directed 85 films between 1920 and 1939.
Albert Ray, born in La Rochelle, New York, was already connected to the cinema during his school years, as he worked during the summer holidays as part of the permanent ensemble of the Vitagraph. After completing school, he played summer theater e. g. at the Harlem Opera House in New York City. In 1915 he started film acting at the Eastcoast company Federal Films, where he also directed his first three films. After a gap of two years, he continued his career at Fox in Hollywood by the end of 1917. His first film acting role there was in Shadows of Her Pest (Henry Lehrman, 1918). While in 1918-1919 he acted in various films at Universal, Thomas Ince, and American, in later 1919 he became a regular at Fox, often paired with Elinor Fair. As a film actor, he stopped by mid-1921, henceforth concentrating on directing. While he did one film in 1920, he had a regular directing career from 1924 (so, he had a career gap in 1921-1923).
From 1924, Albert Ray made numerous films till 1939. He first did countless comedies with Cliff Bowes and Virginia Vance at Jack White and at Fred Hibbard Productions in 1924-1925. Then in 1925-26, he became a regular director of short comedies at Fox Film Corporation with the 'Married Life' series, starring Katherine Perry and Hallam Cooley. In 1926 he did his first feature-length comedy at Fox with More Pay - Less Work, starring Albert Gran and Mary Brian, and also did his first mystery feature, Whispering Wires, with Anita Stewart and Edward Burns. Several features followed with e.g. Nancy Nash, William Russell, Marjorie Beebe, Charles Morton, and others. In the years of the passage to sound cinema (1927-1929) Ray was less active and also left Fox by 1928.
In 1929 Albert Ray did his first sound film, Molly and Me for Tiffany-Stahl, starring Belle Bennett and Joe E. Brown, about a clown and his wife. It was immediately followed by another Bennett-Brown comedy, My Lady's Past (1929). By the time sound cinema had settled in, in 1930, Ray was back full fling directing, doing five to eight films per year in the early 1930s. He alternated shorts with features, alternated genre-wise (not only comedy anymore), and also alternated companies (working e.g. for Paramount, Universal, and Columbia, but also minor companies). He directed former silent stars such as Lila Lee and Betty Compson but also upcoming ones such as Ginger Rogers. By 1936 Ray did his last films, a handful of Johnnie Mack Brown westerns including Lawless Land (1936). After another gap, Ray did one last film, Desperate Trails (1939), another Brown western, and then called it a day. In 1919 Ray was married to stage actress Roxana McGowan. They had two children but divorced in 1929. In 1930 Ray remarried Frances Hyland Anthony. Ray died in Los Angeles in 1944, at the age of (only) 46 years.
Sources: Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.
Hey everyone,
I've been back for a few weeks and very busy with work projects so I haven't had much time to post or to shoot. Definitely behind so I have lots to catch up on.
Sunday, March 8, will mark International Women's Day. Women are amazing creatures. For some reason, we are considered the weaker sex but we bear the brunt of child birth and child rearing. In some cases, we do this alone. Some women live in conditions that not even the strongest men could survive. Some women are forced to face issues like child rape, acid attacks, verbal and physical abuse, poverty, little to no education, workplace inequality, reproductive rights....the list goes on. I'm lucky that I don't have to worry about a lot of these things in my little part of the world. There are lots of organisations that need our help, both men and women...
Can you guess who this lovely lady is? I managed to catch her about 5 minutes before she was out the door on her way to a wedding. She doesn't like to pose for many pictures but I convinced her to give me five minutes of her time. She was pleased with the results. I've often said that true beauty is not a matter of how you look, but a reflection of your inner self. Can you see that here? Like a veritable "ray of sunshine"...which fits her personality to a tee.
Wishing you all a wonderful day, dear friends. Feel free to message me if you like. There is more to come in this set so look out for a few more shots.
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OK guys cue up the soundtrack from Starsky and Hutch. This is me and my friend Ray wearing our seventies duds while visiting San Francisco for the first time. It was real fun especially when we stayed at the Turk Street YMCA where half the guys there looked like they spent the last several years pumping iron at San Quentin and cat called us as we went in.(Hotels.com where were you back then!) P.S. 7/24/24 Did a reprocessing of this shot with vastly superior photo software.
Crepuscular rays (also known as Sun rays) in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight, and their apparent convergence is a perspective effect (similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance).
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.
Sun rays cutting through storm clouds, photographed from my yard in Chadron, Nebraska, on June 13, 2021.
...Pantheon, Rome.
Canon 7D / Canon EF-S 10-22mm 1:3.5-4.5 USM
Een werkelijk prachtig gebouw, zeker kijkend naar het ontwerp, de bouwmethoden en gebruikte materialen. De koepel is de enige bron van licht in het gebouw, symbolisch voor hoe de zon de bron is alle licht op aarde.
Hier een klein stukje over de bouw/constructie: www.architectenweb.nl/aweb/archipedia/archipedia.asp?ID=396
Massively impressive, just looking at the construction, building methodes and materials.
The oculus is the source of all light in the building, symbolic of how the sun is the source of all light on earth.
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Never been a fan of Ray-Ban except for the one worn by Peter Fonda in Easy Rider. But I have to admit these Ray-Ban's look good, especially considering how they are in fact a mini computer with wi-fi, blue tooth, a cpu to process voice commands, look up information ("OK Meta, what am I looking at?" for example will describe what is in front of you) and a very good camera for stills and video. Impressive.
Finally the winter clouds cleared from the sky and the sun appered. Left me with a warm feeling..
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Hope your week is off to a bright and sunny start! This sunflower is growing under my birdfeeder from one of the many seeds the birds dropped. It might be the only sunshine we'll see here today :-)
"Ray of Hope:" When I first started shooting the rainbow, it was still raining over me quite a bit and the skies still looked dark and stormy. This colorful ray seemed to be a wonderful sign of hope in that otherwise foreboding sky.
This is Vicky plowing through the thick plankton field on a recent night dive. The lights above are snorkelers enjoying the show.
Don't want to blow their cover, but here is a picture I took of Karin and (some of) the guys from Fever Ray
Starring Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green, and John Crawford. Directed by Don Chaffey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxA3wFYxUB8&feature=share&...
Pelias (Douglas Wilmer) usurps the throne of Thessaly by killing King Aristo. However, there is a prophecy that he will be overthrown by a child of Aristo wearing one sandal. When he kills one of Aristo's daughters after she had sought and been granted the protection of Hera, Pelias makes an enemy of the goddess.
Twenty years later, Jason (Todd Armstrong), Aristo's son grown to manhood, saves the life of Pelias during a chance encounter, but loses a sandal doing so. He does not know that he has rescued his father's murderer, but Pelias recognizes his nemesis. Pelias keeps his identity secret. However, he cannot just kill Jason; the prophecy also says that he himself would die.
When he learns that Jason is undertaking a dangerous quest to obtain the fabled Golden Fleece to rally the people of Thessaly, Pelias encourages him, hoping that he will be killed in the attempt. Men from all over Greece compete for the honor of joining Jason. Since their ship is named the Argo after the ship's builder Argos (Laurence Naismith), they are dubbed the Argonauts. Among those chosen are Hercules (Nigel Green) and Acastus (Gary Raymond), the son of Pelias, who is sent by his father to sabotage the voyage.
Jason is taken to Mount Olympus by Hermes (Michael Gwynn) to speak to the gods Zeus (Niall MacGinnis) and Hera (Honor Blackman). Hera tells him that she wishes him well, but that Zeus has imposed restrictions on her assistance (Jason, like all mortals, is a piece in the game which the gods play against each other. This is an accurate portrayal of Greek theology and rarely found in any modern medium). Jason is told that he can only invoke Hera's aid five times (the same number of times his sister called on the goddess by name for help before she was slain). In response to Jason's unasked questions, Hera tells him to search for the Fleece in the land of Colchis, on the other side of the world.
Many dangers threaten the expedition. When the Argonauts run perilously low on supplies, Jason turns to Hera. She guides him to the Isle of Bronze, but warns him to take nothing but provisions. However, while chasing some goats, Hercules and his young friend Hylas (John Cairney) find a partially-open treasure chamber of the gods, surmounted by an enormous bronze statue of Talos. Despite Hylas' warning, Hercules steals an enormous brooch pin the size of a javelin. The statue comes to life and attacks, causing much mayhem before Jason can destroy it using Hera's advice. Hylas goes missing and is presumed dead, but the guilt-ridden Hercules refuses to leave until he knows for certain. The other Argonauts will not abandon Hercules, so Jason is forced to call on Hera for the last time. She confirms that Hylas is indeed dead and that Hercules is destined not to continue with them.
Hera also directs them to seek out Phineas (Patrick Troughton), the blind seer, for the way to Colchis. They find him tormented by two blue-skinned, bat-like Harpies sent by Zeus to punish him for misusing his gift of prophecy. In return for imprisoning the flying creatures, Phineas tells Jason what he needs to know and gives Jason his only possession, an amulet. To reach Colchis however, they must pass between the Clashing Rocks, a strait flanked by towering rock cliffs that shake and drop boulders to sink any ships attempting to pass between them. Fortunately for the Argonauts, they learn this second hand. Another ship tries to run the strait from the other direction and founders. In despair, Jason throws Phineas' gift into the water; the god Triton emerges and holds back the rocks long enough to let the Argo pass through. On the other side, they pick up three survivors of the other ship, including Medea (Nancy Kovack), the high priestess of the goddess Hecate.
They sight Colchis the next day. Acastus and Jason disagree on how to approach the King of Colchis. The argument escalates into a swordfight. Eventually Acastus is disarmed and jumps into the sea to escape. Believing him dead, Jason and his men accept an invitation from King Aeëtes (Jack Gwillim) to a feast, but once they are off guard, they are captured and imprisoned. Acastus has betrayed them, telling Aeëtes about their mission. However, Medea helps Jason and his men escape.
Acastus tries to steal the Fleece himself, but is fatally wounded by its guardian, the many-headed Hydra. Jason succeeds in killing the monster and taking the Fleece. But Aeëtes is not far behind. He strews the teeth of the Hydra on the ground and prays to Hecate. The planted teeth sprout out of the ground as armed skeletons who pursue and battle Jason and two of his men (in a famous four minute stop motion sequence that took special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen four and a half months to produce[1]). Seeing that his companions have been slain, Jason escapes by jumping off a cliff into the sea.
The quest fulfilled, he, Medea and the surviving Argonauts start the return voyage to Thessaly.