Ryan Cannon Ray

Happy BELATED Valentine’s Day! Yes I did rent a car and drive about 14 hours round trip to see my beautiful girlfriend Mindy Merenghi for a late Valentine’s Day. (more…)

When 2010 was fast approaching I started to wonder about New Years resolutions. Many made and many never completed. Personally, I know I hate not being able to finish something I started. (more…)

I know it’s been a few days since 2009 ended, but I still wanted to compile a list of my favorite stuff from 2009. For my life, and from my perspective, it was a great year. Somehow I continue to be blessed by good health, great friends, and awesome opportunities to do what I love.  2009 didn’t always go the way I wanted. My girlfriend for the most part is always about 386 miles away from me. My family situation is always frustrating, I got a few bad grades, etc… But those negative things of the year didn’t keep me down, and they sure didn’t outweigh the positive. I turned 22, a wise old age… got to travel quite a bit with John Tibbs and company, made our own cd, t-shirts, etc…  He’s got a lot going for him. I continued to be able to film and take pictures, exploring more and getting to push my creativity to new ends. You can see that soon in my porfolio that’s being built at the moment. Met new people from all over the country and am glad I can call them friends.  Growth is happening continually for me, and I’m glad I haven’t become stuck in a rut physically, spiritually, mentally, etc… I thirst for all of these things. So what encapsulated me in 2009? Read on to see.

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Yes! Of course it can be good, it can be better than good. Many of the shots I see are fantastic. It doesn’t always have to be photography from an iPhone, try shooting from any camera phone. Phones with cameras on them are so ubiquitous these days that everyone owns some form of a camera. I know I may preach a lot about Chase Jarvis but he’s been a great inspiration for me to constantly have my eyes open, ready to shoot that next shot. If you read below about my 7D, you’ll know I have a great camera, but I’m not always out walking around with my 7D. I am with my iPhone though, and the same thing has inspired Chase Jarvis. He’s even made an app and a book and a website all for the iPhone photography. So what’s so awesome about iPhone photography? There’s more after the jump. (more…)

Well if you weren’t aware, I’m now a proud owner of a Canon EOS 7D camera. This bad boy shoots both great still pictures and up to full 1080p HD video. I just received it yesterday so I’m still making friends with him, and adjusting to all of the new things I can do with this bad boy. My last camera, the Rebel XT, has a nice new home and we may be re-united every once and awhile. Perhaps even this Sunday. (more…)

Once again I’ve got more photos to look at. I promise these are different though than the first part of this quest. I went out driving around the countryside yesterday evening searching for more sunset locations instead of sunrise. As far as great sunsets it was a failure, but I still got some fun pictures. I also apparently missed  a really colorful sunset. If I could only keep my directions straight! My tripod has a compass on it and all night I kept wanting to go east when the sun rises from the east, doh! Anyway I got a much better HDR shot this time around and I also messed with some long exposure times aiming down from the edge of an overpass onto the highway. (more…)