SENTENCE - Photographs, Videos, Flash Movies

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the official website for the writings of
ralph robert moore

My novel Father Figure, a bestseller for its publisher in trade paperback, is now available for free in PDF format. Click here to go to a page where you can download the complete text of the novel.

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introduction

photographs | videos | flash

I love writing.

But I wanted to find out what it would be like to take an idea and present it, instead of in words, in images and sound.

I started with photographs, then expanded into videos and Flash.
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photographs

SERIES I

SERIES II

SERIES III

SERIES IV

SERIES V

SERIES VI
These photographs have been taken by me, or, in the case of Series V, have been taken of me.

Series I is called Landscapes
Series II, Landscape Details
Series III, Our Cats
Series IV, Portraits
Series V, Watch Me Age
Series VI, Other

All the photographs were shot with a Kodak DC280 Zoom Digital Camera; or with a Nikon 2020N, and scanned. Most of the photographs have been cropped, and most have had their color values adjusted, using Adobe Limited Edition software. Other than these post-photograph enhancements, no other changes have been made to the original images. They appear as they were captured.

The photographs are best viewed using a resolution of 1024 X 768.
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videos

Let Him In was my first attempt at a video. It has no images, other than text, and was meant as a promotion for my short story collection, Remove the Eyes.

My next project was a documentary on Joe, Mary's dad.

During his last visit with us before his death, over the 2009-2010 holiday season, Mary and I shot approximately 30 hours of footage of Joe. I've edited this footage into a documentary approximately 80 minutes long called JOE. In the documentary, Joe talks about his life, from childhood through World War II, meeting and falling in love with his future wife Joan, their three daughters, four grandchildren, Joan's death, and his life after Joan died. The documentary also includes rare family photos and film footage.

The entire documentary is now available online, for free. I've divided it into six parts and uploaded it to YouTube. The six parts are arranged in chronological order. Each part is approximately 15 minutes long, except for the final, sixth, part, which is a bit shorter.

Part 1

Part 1 covers Joe's early childhood, the death of his father at an early age, his teenage years, the start of his lifelong friendship with Buster and Bud, and the beginnings of World War II.

Part 2

Part 2 opens with Joe talking about what it was like to be in the Navy during the war, then covers how Joe, after the war, met Joan, fell in love, married her, and moved with her to California.

Part 3

Part 3 is devoted to Joe talking about his three daughters. The segment includes rare family film footage shot during the sixties.

Part 4

In Part 4, Joe discusses his four grandchildren. Includes a number of stories about each grandchild.

Part 5

Part 5 is a filming session we did on the last full day of his visit, in which Joe talks about Joan's death. Includes rare family footage from the eighties.

Part 6

Part 6 winds up the documentary. Joe reads one of Joan's poems from her website, and talks about his life after Joan. Ends with the credits for the film, interspersed with bloopers from the footage we shot.

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flash

transport

The Flash movie presented here was created by me in Flash 5. If you don't have a broadband connection, you'll need to let the Flash movie load, then hit reload in order to have images and sound synchronize.