From the Archive: Italy 2003
A magazine sent out a recent request for images of a specific town in Italy. I haven’t been to Italy since I went to my old journalism school friends Matt and Callie’s wedding in 2003. So this stock search was a great chance to root through my old film, reminisce and then get completely manic [...]
Inishmore, Inis Morr, Inis Oirr…Oh, forget it.
Last Friday, the wife and I joined our good friends Michael and Aaron for a production of Martin McDonagh‘s, black comedy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. I’ll leave the reviewing to Aaron, but I was going through the archive today, with plans to get a good portion of my film archive scanned, and stumbled across the [...]
New Clip in Philadelphia Magazine: City of Brotherly Brew
Philly Mag’s Design Director Michael McCormick gave me what might’ve been the best assignment ever: shoot photographs of the local beer scene in and around Philadelphia. So began two weeks of hanging with some cool beer writers, brewers and pub owners. Not to mention, the awesome couple of days spent trying to get that perfect [...]
From the Archive: Obama’s Inauguration
I’ve been pokin’ ’round the old archive lately while re-editing my portfolios and I’ve been running across a lot of images that I’ve forgotten about. Here are a couple from last year’s presidential inauguration. I had hopes of testing some new equipment for making cinematic-style panoramas. But maybe an event during which I had to [...]
End of an Era – The Pulse, aka Philadelphicon
Be forewarned that I might get a little sappy here. I’ve been known to do so. The March issue of Philadelphia Magazine marks the end of a small epoch for me. Since November of 2005, I’ve been given the honor of making the opening photograph of the calendar section in Philadelphia Magazine. I haven’t made [...]
From the Archive: Ireland.
In an effort to expand my presence in this whole Internet thing (I hear it’s going to be big.), I wanted to start exploring the capabilities to share images from my archive on this blog using Photoshelters’ Way-Too-Powerful-for-Ryan-to-Understand marketing tools. So here is a small slideshow of images from my Ireland visit last year, with [...]
Whatever: Coincidence
So I got back to back emails today from two friends and colleagues. They both got me thinking about images and the way two images work together and how, often, the end goal of creating an image is to trigger memories and emotions in my audience. The first email came from my buddy Chip Somodevilla, [...]