Notes From the Home Office » From the Archive http://www.ryandonnell.com/blog News from Philadelphia editorial, advertising, and corporate photographer Ryan Donnell Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:47:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 From the Archive: Obama’s Inauguration http://www.ryandonnell.com/blog/2010/03/03/from-the-archive-obamas-inauguration/ http://www.ryandonnell.com/blog/2010/03/03/from-the-archive-obamas-inauguration/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:33:11 +0000 Ryan Donnell http://www.ryandonnell.com/blog/?p=758 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 hike for hours, with billions of people, crammed into a small space wasn’t the ideal place to test new and cumbersome equipment. Anyway, I did get two images together and here they are:

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One thing that’s missing from digital photography: Mystery Rolls. These are the forgotten rolls. The half-shot rolls, re-wound midway through because you needed a different ISO. Or maybe a personal roll you shot of your dog that you’d stick on your desk and promise yourself to take to the lab later, after your nap.

For years, I’ve had a neoprene bag full of miscellaneous rolls in the vegetable drawer of my fridge. Some look like they could be from the 1950s, and I was only born in 1977. I’m not even sure they’re mine, but, I’m going to take ‘em to the lab someday…after my nap.

ABOVE: Two frames from two recently processed Mystery Rolls, which were found amongst some unexposed film. Hank on a walk (top) and a cocktail lounge somewhere on the Jersey Shore.

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April in Paris – Images by Ryan Donnell

I’ve got some new images from a recent trip to Paris that my wife and I took last month. I will be adding images to this gallery as I find time.

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I just finished listening to a moving obituary of UPenn tramua surgeon and Army Reserve Maj. John Pryor by Philly-based NPR reporter Joel Rose. As I was listening, the name sparked a memory in my mind. After a few minutes it finally dawned on me that I had spent some time with Dr. Pryor in 2007.

Writer John Hurdle and I spent part of an overnight shift with Dr. Pryor in the trauma unit at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. We were working on a story about gun violence in Philadelphia. We had a lot of time waiting for a victim to come in (inevitably, being Philly, a man came in with a gunshot to the leg) and during that time Dr. Pryor told us about his work bringing the techniques developed in Philly to the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He seemed to be a supremely thoughtful, passionate and caring man.

I send my condolences and best wishes to his family, friends and colleagues.

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