by David Ryan | Jun 18, 2014 | Black and white, Brassaï, history, Other Photographers, People, photography
There is something about the new, the never before seen (especially if you create it yourself), that is so entirely seductive that I tend to feel twinges of disappointment if I don’t produce it every time I use my camera. Being “creative” I guess...
by David Ryan | Jun 13, 2014 | Bulgaria, Hungary, Idaho, India, People, Philippines, photography, Portraits
Because I was bringing home from my travels so many strong and interesting photos of faces, I once fancied myself a “people photographer”. Unfortunately that it is a particularly low-paying type of photography. Once again I had chosen something that had...
by David Ryan | Jun 6, 2014 | history, Mexico, photography, Portraits, travel
On the Art of the Grabbed Portrait When I picked up my first camera (a Pentax Spotmatic) some hundred years ago, I was a very shy guy when around people I didn’t know. Consequently, I just couldn’t bring myself to point my camera at someone and snap...
by David Ryan | May 30, 2014 | flowers, photography, Spring
Thank you Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here in Idaho, spring is always very welcome even though it generally begins in a sort of sloppy, muddy, cool way. This year we again had plenty of showers in April which, I have heard, are well known to bring May flowers. I suspect I...
by David Ryan | May 23, 2014 | directing, family photography, photography, posing
The first thing I need to do here is let you know that I did not take the above photo (I didn’t have a fancy studio in those days). About eight years ago I found it among a basket of old photos in an antique store and, in what must have been a premonition of a...
