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Got notice via my daily “Ryan Donnell” Google alert this morning (side note: if you’re a creative who licenses his or her imagery, you should have one of these setup) that I had a new clip waiting for me on Smithsonian Magazine’s website. I haven’t seen the physical magazine yet, but I thought I would [...]
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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 every [...]
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Photo by Chris Hamilton. Sweetwater, Texas, rattlesnake round-up. ca. I-Have-No-Idea.
WARNING: This is long and rambling. And this is the NY Times article that spawned the rant.
11-years ago, my first job in photography was as a part-time photographer at the Arlington Morning News in Texas, a small suburban paper owned by the Belo Corp., which also [...]
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Went out with my lovely wife while she did some reporting and made a few new images for my Polling Place Project. Unfortunately, my Hasselblad is on bed rest right now after a frightful accident and it couldn’t come off the bench in time for this election cycle, so I’m testing a new digital technique [...]
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Tracking down my PECO ad on bus shelters in the hinterlands of suburban Philadelphia was a really difficult endeavor. Shooting a picture of the shelter ad was hazardous, involving a frogger-esque event of running across four lanes of traffic and standing in the road to get a decent angle, but alas, I finally have proof [...]
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Just wanted to post a link to another recent cover I photographed. This time for a client in Abu Dhabi, “M” Magazine, which is the Saturday magazine for The National newspaper. Big ups to my friend Kerri Abrams for helping me secure the gig.
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So, I was driving to one of the big box hardware stores today and guess what I spied along the way: one of the billboards that I recently completed for PECO this past summer.
We created two ads for the campaign, one of which is being used on billboards throughout the region and one that is [...]
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I’ve been neglectful of my blog recently, but for good reason: I’ve been busy. My wife and I bought our first house & despite the terrible economic climate, I’ve been incredibly lucky to be very busy over the past 2 months. (Thank you everyone who had a part in that fact.)
This run of good fortune [...]
