Ray's Photos
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Part Two
Throng
Portobello Road
Arches
Temple
End
Always fascinated by the sight of interiors that have become exteriors
Apres-Disc
Treasure
Hail to the Sun
It isn't a Nazi salute, honest
Dog Star
Hope to feel better tomorrow
Throng
Portobello Road
Arches
Temple
End
Always fascinated by the sight of interiors that have become exteriors
Apres-Disc
Treasure
Hail to the Sun
It isn't a Nazi salute, honest
Dog Star
Hope to feel better tomorrow
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Part 1 8/82(ish), mostly London, Part two, 2/18, Deep Devon
Badges
Low Tone
Tony was my flatmate at the Mansions in 1982. Currently dividing his time between homes in Teddington, south-west London,
and Slovenia
and now a rarity, four pics from the world of work: I did a ten-month stint as news-editor/secretary at an ad industry mag
called MediaWorld, in offices in Bouverie Street, just off Fleet Street
Space Sales
Kathy Herriman, an American but no relation to the sainted George (I checked)
Media Director
For those who didn't recognize him, that's my old uni pal Mike, aka Conrad, with hair suitably shorn
Workshy Station
Yep, that's where I sat
Thames View
With the IPC tower on the other bank
Home Territory
Never had a camera when I lived in Tottenham. This is Bruce Castle, former home of Rowland Hill and now Tottenham Museum
Going to the Match
Through the late 1970s and all the 1980s, I went to Spurs with two brothers, John (on left) and the 6'5" tall Keith. Keith was at school and Uni with me, and was a friend since infant school of Clive, often featured here in the West Wales pics - he moved there in 1973.
Here we're walking through Bruce Castle Park
Badges
Low Tone
Tony was my flatmate at the Mansions in 1982. Currently dividing his time between homes in Teddington, south-west London,
and Slovenia
and now a rarity, four pics from the world of work: I did a ten-month stint as news-editor/secretary at an ad industry mag
called MediaWorld, in offices in Bouverie Street, just off Fleet Street
Space Sales
Kathy Herriman, an American but no relation to the sainted George (I checked)
Media Director
For those who didn't recognize him, that's my old uni pal Mike, aka Conrad, with hair suitably shorn
Workshy Station
Yep, that's where I sat
Thames View
With the IPC tower on the other bank
Home Territory
Never had a camera when I lived in Tottenham. This is Bruce Castle, former home of Rowland Hill and now Tottenham Museum
Going to the Match
Through the late 1970s and all the 1980s, I went to Spurs with two brothers, John (on left) and the 6'5" tall Keith. Keith was at school and Uni with me, and was a friend since infant school of Clive, often featured here in the West Wales pics - he moved there in 1973.
Here we're walking through Bruce Castle Park
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Part Two
More pics of Dog and flowers
In the Jungle
Searching for the Right Stick
Do I Really Need to Say?
World of Possibility
Display
Logistical Problem
more of the similar next time
More pics of Dog and flowers
In the Jungle
Searching for the Right Stick
Do I Really Need to Say?
World of Possibility
Display
Logistical Problem
more of the similar next time
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Part one today gets sort of sunsetty in February this year: part two is is still in 1982, I think, but fuck knows what's going on, or exactly when. Most of this stuff was originally scanned in, and then dumped into huge unmanageable files, in 2012 or so, around the time of Chip's death and soon after, and I wasn't really very well organized.
Anyways...
Gable
Woolly Hat Dying Light Selfie
Yes, I Still Have Some
Please note; gardening clothes and haven't-been-out-of-house-for-a-while grooming. I may not be one for moddery,
but I do have some standards.
One or two, at least
Oo Ewe Screwing, John?
The sheep round here are hard, well hard
Points West
High Line
The Last of It
Normal and full telephoto on a jet contrail so high that it was catching pink from a sun that had gone down about 15 minutes before
Anyways...
Gable
Woolly Hat Dying Light Selfie
Yes, I Still Have Some
Please note; gardening clothes and haven't-been-out-of-house-for-a-while grooming. I may not be one for moddery,
but I do have some standards.
One or two, at least
Oo Ewe Screwing, John?
The sheep round here are hard, well hard
Points West
High Line
The Last of It
Normal and full telephoto on a jet contrail so high that it was catching pink from a sun that had gone down about 15 minutes before
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Part Two
A mystery and a portrait bookend an evening in the life of a couple of tripped-out ne'er-do-wells
High Noon with Buddleia
When, where and why, all mysteries
Repetition
OK, so Bill takes a slide of his girlfriend, Sal, sitting on the western end of the Mendip Hills, apparently balancing the
setting sun on her cupped and outstretched hand. Then we project the slide on to the wall of my Mansion flat (painted
in a silk finish white to make it a good screen substitute), hold a glass geegaw in the beam, then photograph the result
on a slow transparency film using long exposure and tripod.
Mother, was it worth it?
Gavin Goes for It
Another of Bill's slides, copied without shenanigans. Original taken maybe the year before in Stanmer Park, Brighton.
Rose Repose
This is also a Bill original, of a tiny ivory Buddah
Visions of Dooni
Bill's mother's Thai cat, Dooni, walked into the room just as Bill was using his prisms to make a picture of the Oriental rug.
A rather rough copy of the original first, then one given the prism treatment
Sal at the Mansions
She was lovely, sunny person, Sally, and this picture captures that side of her better tan any other I took
tomorrow: the plod continues
A mystery and a portrait bookend an evening in the life of a couple of tripped-out ne'er-do-wells
High Noon with Buddleia
When, where and why, all mysteries
Repetition
OK, so Bill takes a slide of his girlfriend, Sal, sitting on the western end of the Mendip Hills, apparently balancing the
setting sun on her cupped and outstretched hand. Then we project the slide on to the wall of my Mansion flat (painted
in a silk finish white to make it a good screen substitute), hold a glass geegaw in the beam, then photograph the result
on a slow transparency film using long exposure and tripod.
Mother, was it worth it?
Gavin Goes for It
Another of Bill's slides, copied without shenanigans. Original taken maybe the year before in Stanmer Park, Brighton.
Rose Repose
This is also a Bill original, of a tiny ivory Buddah
Visions of Dooni
Bill's mother's Thai cat, Dooni, walked into the room just as Bill was using his prisms to make a picture of the Oriental rug.
A rather rough copy of the original first, then one given the prism treatment
Sal at the Mansions
She was lovely, sunny person, Sally, and this picture captures that side of her better tan any other I took
tomorrow: the plod continues
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Rayge wrote:
If I were that sheep, I'd sue his baaarbaah.
As for the red earrings ... red earrings? Moving on.
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Part one is back in 1982 I think, but judging from some shots, autumn's well on its way. Part two has random moments from last month
No idea of the location for any of these, although appparently Chip and I are out on some kind of jolly
On the Turn
Cloister
Hoots Mon / He's Behind You
Here's the Old Boss
Gold Stars
Stripes
Tomorrow, though, unmistakeably in Avebury. The last one here, with Kermit, might be there
No idea of the location for any of these, although appparently Chip and I are out on some kind of jolly
On the Turn
Cloister
Hoots Mon / He's Behind You
Here's the Old Boss
Gold Stars
Stripes
Tomorrow, though, unmistakeably in Avebury. The last one here, with Kermit, might be there
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Part Two
Open Invitation
Ivied Stems, Red Dirt
Moss Side
Flow
Window
Bow
back tomorrow, weather permitting, with more capricious snapping.
Open Invitation
Ivied Stems, Red Dirt
Moss Side
Flow
Window
Bow
back tomorrow, weather permitting, with more capricious snapping.
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Part One today is all about the house and garden at the tail end of last month
There Goes the Neighbourhood
Bit of a Challenge
Kitchen Crocuses
Stiff Note to the Town Planning Department
Blue Splash
Faded Glory
Fuchsias and Roses
There Goes the Neighbourhood
Bit of a Challenge
Kitchen Crocuses
Stiff Note to the Town Planning Department
Blue Splash
Faded Glory
Fuchsias and Roses
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Part Two
An early autumn visit to Avebury Ring, and some family members you haven't met before, from 1982.
Ooooh Mystic Vibrations
Nodding Acquaintances
Eternal Triangle
Edgy
Markers
Brian
Brian was my father's sister's son, and by general consensus, the white sheep of the family. He was a decent amateur
footballer from the Hackney Marshes brigade, playing for a team called Queensbridge Saints. Not long after my father
and his parents died in 1967, the survivors - Aunt Min, Uncle Les (a lifelong gooner, like my boy cousins - oh, the shame!),
their three children and their children's spouses, all moved to Essex, most of them around Tiptree. This is the only time
I visited there, for my Aunt's funeral (she would be 106 if alive today). Brian himself collapsed and died aged just 50,
a few years after this, while running a half-marathon. This was the last time I saw him.
Doppelganger
The elder of Brian's two sons, widely supposed to be identical to me as a teen, as he is here
Origins
This is the house (well, the top floor) off Green Lanes Harringay that my parents rented from soon after they were
married in 1943 until moving back to ma's mother's home in south Tottenham, when I was not quite two. The green
wooden gate my father made for the top of the stairs is my earliest datable memory
Tomorrow, back to the usual scuzzy bunch plucking beauty from chaos
An early autumn visit to Avebury Ring, and some family members you haven't met before, from 1982.
Ooooh Mystic Vibrations
Nodding Acquaintances
Eternal Triangle
Edgy
Markers
Brian
Brian was my father's sister's son, and by general consensus, the white sheep of the family. He was a decent amateur
footballer from the Hackney Marshes brigade, playing for a team called Queensbridge Saints. Not long after my father
and his parents died in 1967, the survivors - Aunt Min, Uncle Les (a lifelong gooner, like my boy cousins - oh, the shame!),
their three children and their children's spouses, all moved to Essex, most of them around Tiptree. This is the only time
I visited there, for my Aunt's funeral (she would be 106 if alive today). Brian himself collapsed and died aged just 50,
a few years after this, while running a half-marathon. This was the last time I saw him.
Doppelganger
The elder of Brian's two sons, widely supposed to be identical to me as a teen, as he is here
Origins
This is the house (well, the top floor) off Green Lanes Harringay that my parents rented from soon after they were
married in 1943 until moving back to ma's mother's home in south Tottenham, when I was not quite two. The green
wooden gate my father made for the top of the stairs is my earliest datable memory
Tomorrow, back to the usual scuzzy bunch plucking beauty from chaos
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In part one, autumn 1982 probably. All those places and people I knew and cared for and tried to pin down. And they are all gone: dead, dispersed, forgotten or aged, but definitely gone. Wisdom has taught me that there's no future in hanging on to the past, and yet I continue to rummage around in it, looking for beauty, meaning, some stimulation of my memory/imagination that recreates a scene, perhaps a moment, a laugh, a look. It's only very rarely, though, that I recall anything before or after the memorialized moments, or that I recapture a feeling, so now I'm mainly looking, when I edit these scanned-in photos (maybe a third or a half of all that are worth the attention, if only for a few seconds), not for the past I thought I was capturing, the story-telling or mythologizing, the arresting of time: I'm looking instead with my old, tired eyes for something that resonates with the now, that touches something present, even if it is the well-worn sorrowful point of loss.
Then I spend a long time cleaning the gunk off it (the memory, the sensation, the picture) and adjusting the scan and the shot to the way it should have been, in the same way that memory smooths, elides and constructs a story out of the chaos. Because of this, and my neurotic commitment to posting pictures here until I drop (out), I tend to spend a small, but significant, part of every day with my past. The things I do for my public.
Junior Service
Butterfly
Unrestrained
Aries
Smells Like Flying Fairy
Case in point. Just looking at this, and seeing the boxes of Flying Fairy incense in the background, I could smell it,
sweet and rosey. And yes, as it happens, I am burning a dhoop stick as I type, but I'm definitely scenting FF
The Seven Sages of Bill
I'm and Academic, You Know. I Read Proper Books
It's Raining Quids
Then I spend a long time cleaning the gunk off it (the memory, the sensation, the picture) and adjusting the scan and the shot to the way it should have been, in the same way that memory smooths, elides and constructs a story out of the chaos. Because of this, and my neurotic commitment to posting pictures here until I drop (out), I tend to spend a small, but significant, part of every day with my past. The things I do for my public.
Junior Service
Butterfly
Unrestrained
Aries
Smells Like Flying Fairy
Case in point. Just looking at this, and seeing the boxes of Flying Fairy incense in the background, I could smell it,
sweet and rosey. And yes, as it happens, I am burning a dhoop stick as I type, but I'm definitely scenting FF
The Seven Sages of Bill
I'm and Academic, You Know. I Read Proper Books
It's Raining Quids
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And in Part Two, coming to the end of February this year; it's getting chilly, and the oldsters have come out to play
Frost Ferns
Cool Colours, Bro’
Serving Seniors
The Happy Crew
Sandford Millennium Green Volunteers, there to cut willow and clear brambles
There's More of Them
None looking significantly under 50 though, you notice
Triple Threat
Charlie
next time, the Sun sets on February
Frost Ferns
Cool Colours, Bro’
Serving Seniors
The Happy Crew
Sandford Millennium Green Volunteers, there to cut willow and clear brambles
There's More of Them
None looking significantly under 50 though, you notice
Triple Threat
Charlie
next time, the Sun sets on February
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Right then, Let's get February out of the way, then.
Why the Sun is Crap at Hide and Seek
Graffiti
Lighting-Up Time
Ember Glow
Morning Moves
Remembering
High Seas
The Way Out
Perruque
Next time, March. And snow
Why the Sun is Crap at Hide and Seek
Graffiti
Lighting-Up Time
Ember Glow
Morning Moves
Remembering
High Seas
The Way Out
Perruque
Next time, March. And snow
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Part Two
It's Autumn 1982, and Billy and I are enjoying a trip in Brighton: but first, herself and her clothes
Shot
On the Hove Side
Mike/Conrad had moved from London to a flat on the top floor of a Deco block on the sea front in Hove, to be with Kate,
who had just started a degree course in Art History at Sussex. This is the view looking back east towards Brighton piers.
And three pics of Billy pissing about on the beach at twilight that don't really need any more explanation or caption than that
The Two of Us
Taken using shutter delay: I may be wrong, but as far as I know this is the only picture I have of Billy and Me, although
we both took loads of each other
Go Moan for Man
Mooning at the West Pier
May give tomorrow a miss, but back soon with more from the druggy fools
It's Autumn 1982, and Billy and I are enjoying a trip in Brighton: but first, herself and her clothes
Shot
On the Hove Side
Mike/Conrad had moved from London to a flat on the top floor of a Deco block on the sea front in Hove, to be with Kate,
who had just started a degree course in Art History at Sussex. This is the view looking back east towards Brighton piers.
And three pics of Billy pissing about on the beach at twilight that don't really need any more explanation or caption than that
The Two of Us
Taken using shutter delay: I may be wrong, but as far as I know this is the only picture I have of Billy and Me, although
we both took loads of each other
Go Moan for Man
Mooning at the West Pier
May give tomorrow a miss, but back soon with more from the druggy fools
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Sorry about the gap.
Anyway, today I am here, with more inconsequentialities from the early 1980s, and in part two, a snowy start to March this year
Low Point
The Lea at Ware
Boy About Town
On Call
The Lonely Surfer
Ready for War
Pic by Billy
Scruff Scoffs Shama
Stretch
Watch
Anyway, today I am here, with more inconsequentialities from the early 1980s, and in part two, a snowy start to March this year
Low Point
The Lea at Ware
Boy About Town
On Call
The Lonely Surfer
Ready for War
Pic by Billy
Scruff Scoffs Shama
Stretch
Watch
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Part Two
It's March and the White Hell is here!
Dusting
A Fall at the Falls
Wrapped
The Things I Do for Homeostasis
Gung Ho!
An afternoon walk
Still Coming Down
Unfazed
More white-outs on the way
It's March and the White Hell is here!
Dusting
A Fall at the Falls
Wrapped
The Things I Do for Homeostasis
Gung Ho!
An afternoon walk
Still Coming Down
Unfazed
More white-outs on the way
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Thang-y wrote:Unfazed? He loved it.
Ooh, spoilers
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Part One today sees more from the white hell of the first days of March
The Night Watch
Morning Side
Lawn
Ponds
No Swinging Today
Cold Sun
Starling
Tomorrow, out and about
The Night Watch
Morning Side
Lawn
Ponds
No Swinging Today
Cold Sun
Starling
Tomorrow, out and about
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Part Two is in London and Brighton in the last months of 1982. Probably
Mystery
I genuinely have no idea what is going on in this photo of Matt and Holly
Rock & Roll Monster
Muddied Oaf
Pic by Bill. The little beardy guy is Bill's neighbour, Tony
Incoming
Under the West Pier
Scope
Naturally, once Bill acquired a microscope, we used it to look at dope
Armour
At this time, Bill was very much into Kendo
Tomorrow, Bournemouth! be sure to book a seat
Mystery
I genuinely have no idea what is going on in this photo of Matt and Holly
Rock & Roll Monster
Muddied Oaf
Pic by Bill. The little beardy guy is Bill's neighbour, Tony
Incoming
Under the West Pier
Scope
Naturally, once Bill acquired a microscope, we used it to look at dope
Armour
At this time, Bill was very much into Kendo
Tomorrow, Bournemouth! be sure to book a seat
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