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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
