by David Ryan | Sep 13, 2015 | HDR, high dynamic range, Idaho, photography
Photographing a county or state fair anywhere can be a challenge, especially if you want to avoid the clichés. If you agree with that notion, then perhaps you should try it my way: embrace the clichés and get them out of the way. Just take lots of pictures and...
by David Ryan | Feb 25, 2015 | cowboys, csikos, Hungary, photography, travel
Several years ago, we visited a ranch in Hungary’s Puszta, “the barren land”, and discovered a way of life we had no idea existed. The Puszta, or great Hungarian plain, covers over 50,000 square miles and takes up most of the eastern part of the...
by David Ryan | Sep 9, 2014 | Architecture, HDR, photography, travel
In the last post, which I’m sure is indelibly engraved in the deepest neural pathways of your cerebellum, I focused on a few hours I spent shooting Miami. Well, since then I’ve had the wonderful opportunity of visiting a little town in the South Bay of...
by David Ryan | Aug 15, 2014 | Architecture, HDR, photography, special effects, travel
I must confess that up until a couple of Februarys ago I had never been in Miami, except for some stop-overs on longer journies. Last year however, I did finally have the opportunity to get into town for a few hours. I was there on other business, which pretty much...
by David Ryan | Aug 6, 2014 | Black and white, history, People, photography, Portraits
In my early days as a photographer my very very first business card described me as an “itinerant photographer”, or “fotógrafo ambulante” for my Spanish speaking clientele. (It doesn’t quite have the same meaning, but it was close...
by David Ryan | Jul 8, 2014 | Architecture, Idaho, photography, Real Estate Photography
One of the photographic jobs that I have never done but which always provided me a kind of morbid fascination was that of crime scene photographer. Have any of you ever done that? The one paramount requirement is, of course, the accurate and complete recording of...
