Southwest Airline's Spirit Magazine
Because I’ve been fortunate enough to be shooting quite a lot lately and also working on a never-ending remodel of my office, it’s been awhile since my last real post. That said, I received a couple great clips in the mail recently and I wanted to share them. Last month, I got to meet a [...]
Last-minute NYC visit
I’m heading up to NYC for a quick visit tomorrow (Fri. the 20th). I’ll have my books on me in case any of you purchasers of art out there were interested in seeing my Polling Places Project et al.
Spain & Portugal
So the wife and I just returned from two wonderful weeks touring Spain and Portugal. I’m not sure that I would classify it as a relaxing vacation (we put close to 1500 miles on our little rental car), but it was a great trip and we saw A LOT of the Iberian Peninsula: Galicia, the [...]
New Images added to the Philadelphia Polling Place Project
So, I got my first taste of the power of the Internet the other day. My little project about unique polling stations in Philadelphia received a bit of attention on Tuesday after being touted by a few local (and national) bloggers. A big Thank You has to go out to Catherine Lucey (who, in full-disclosure, [...]
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 [...]
American Photo 26 Winners Up
Just a quick note that the Selected and Chosen winners of this year’s American Photo 26 annual have been posted. I’m honored to be included for the 2nd year in a row. You can see my image from the Louvre in Paris in the Chosen gallery: http://www.ai-ap.com/cfe/APss/ If you’d like to see more images from [...]
New Clip in Smithsonian Magazine
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tales From a Recovered Independent Contractor
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., [...]
Philly Polling Place Project Photos Posted…
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 [...]
PECO, Revisited….
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 [...]
Cover of "M" Magazine in Abu Dhabi
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.
PECO Ad's Up!
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 [...]
Covers Galore….
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 [...]