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Ray

Strangely, I like Haggis and Guinness . . .

About Me

On top of my full-time job, and my side business (www.tempestphoto.com) I also help moderate www.dragonboatwest.net and www.lionbackers.com. When not working or photographing, i will volunteer for Variety -The Children's Charity, and I'm a blood donor...

My Interests

Photography, paddling, tennis, mountain biking, roadtrips, interesting company. cosplaying when no one is looking. shhhh.

I'd like to meet:

New friends who are easy going and friendly. Models who enjoy being photographed. Photographers who like to shop talk. Make up artists who wouldn't mind working with me. Above average athletes who would like to be photographed in their sport. I'm also looking for some recreational tennis players of average skill to rally with.

Music:

Big Hans Zimmer fan, Tegan & Sara, Andrea Bocelli, Richard Cheese, Rammstein, Tiller's Folley, A Perfect Day, Bryan Adams, DMX, Yoko Kanno

Movies:

I Love movies, I love them so much I play them during photoshoots instead of music. :P
Geek Films: Star Trek, The Matrix, Batman Begins, Stargate, Chronicles of Riddick, Constantine, A Scanner Darkly, A Clockwork Orange.
War/Action Films: 300, Glory, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, King Arthur, Crimson Tide, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, The Saint, Tears of The Sun, Equalibrium, V For Vendetta, Bourne Identity/Supremacy, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Swordfish, Speed, Sin City, Spartan.
Luc Besson films: The Professional, The Fifth Element, The Messenger, Wasabi.
Girly Films: Autumn in New York, Sweet November, While You Were Sleeping, Moulin Rouge, Love Actually, The Lake House, The Replacements, To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday, Hardball, Something's Gotta Give.
Dramas: Frequency, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Thomas Crown Affair, Memento, The Butterfly Effect, Walk The Line.
Films with less than usual sexual themes: Kissed, Better Than Chocolate, Brokeback Mountain, Friends and Neighbors, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Seeing Other People.
Comedies: Just Friends, Zoolander, Road Trip, Old School, Dodgeball, Anchorman, The Girl Next Door, Shrek 1 & 2, Talledega Nights, Borat, Grandma's Boy, Super Troopers.
Horror: The Amityville Horror.
Foreign Films: Sex is Zero (Korean), Old Boy (Korean), The Returner (Japanese), Facing Windows (Italian) - all best watched with a 5.1 THX speaker system.

Television:

TV . . . don't watch a lot, but when i do, it's Star Trek TNG, Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis. DVD series I like to watch include The Pretender, The Trailer Park Boys, The Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica, Initial-D, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell: SAC. Ray Has Sex

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Books:

not much reading these days, but i try to keep up with Margaret Atwood's work, and trying to finish Chronicles of Narnia.

Heroes:

Keanu Reeves for getting through his rough times, Trevor Linden for his time and committment to helping kids in need, Damon Allen for still being a starting QB in the CFL after turning 40, my real life friends who have been there when I needed them.

My Blog

Pride Week in Vancouver 20007

I love Pride Week. It's always . . . Delicious. It always makes me wish I was anything but straight, but hey, we can't choose how we are born.Anywho, this year I got out to the Dyke March and Pride P...
Posted by Ray on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:25:00 PST

I Got Married.

Welp. I'm married. Who shoots a photographer's wedding, you might ask? Well . . . in our case, it was a team of several great friends who ranged from amateurs to semi-professionals. And of course, I p...
Posted by Ray on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:03:00 PST

Which Stargate and Star Trek character are you?

I love Stargate and Star Trek. Your results:You are Jack O'Neill..>..>..>..>..>..>Jack O'Neill 81%General Hammond 70%Samantha Carter 67%Daniel Jackson 64%Thor 60%A Goa'uld 50%Dr. Frasier 30%Teal'...
Posted by Ray on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:10:00 PST

2007 Vancouver FlashMob Pillow Fight Photos

Pics!! I got bashed a lot, it was fun....
Posted by Ray on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

My e-cards.

For the last year and a bit, I've been making e-cards out of photographs I've taken for fun. Some of you may have recieved one or two of these over the last year. :) These are free to the public if an...
Posted by Ray on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:35:00 PST

Comments

I'd like to start by thanking everyone who leaves comments. It's flattering that some of you take a moment to visit my space often. :)but some of you will notice that i've deleted some of the comments...
Posted by Ray on Thu, 18 May 2006 02:25:00 PST

Asian Heritage Month

May is Asian Heritage Month.Get into it and do something asian, especially all you women.mmmk, thanks. www.explorasian.org
Posted by Ray on Thu, 18 May 2006 11:39:00 PST

Alexis Mazurin passes away at age 27.

Story From www.cbc.ca: Alexis Mazurin, the exuberant young voice of CBC Radio 3, died Thursday evening at the age of 27. Mazurin was surrounded by family and friends when he died "peacefully and swi...
Posted by Ray on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:32:00 PST

Ducky pics from Hawrelak Park, Edmonton.

Was at Hawrelak Park in Edmonton last month. Took some pics of some cute duckies (and a beaver). Yes, women and football aren't the only things I like to shoot. ...
Posted by Ray on Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:30:00 PST

6 yr old girl dies trying to save a turtle today.

Fla. Girl, 6, Killed Trying to Save Turtle FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A 6-year-old girl darted into traffic to save a turtle and was killed when she was hit by a car, officials said. Emily Kent was ri...
Posted by Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST