So, while it may seem that I’ve been slacking off, doing nothing lately, that assumption would be wrong. In fact, I’ve been extremely busy. Mostly with work and school, but also with trying to get my latest photos scanned in so that I can put them up and prove that I haven’t been slacking off. And now, it’s finally done. I now present my two latest photo projects. Establishing Shots In…

I am a patriot and a civil disobedient all at the same time. In fact, you can’t truly be one without being the other. If you think you are, then you’re neither. You’re simply a misguided bigot or rebel. This poses a problem when we have to actually call ourselves “Americans”, because we can no longer slide by without thinking, riding the wave of majority opinion because it’s convenient. That’s what…

Since I haven’t quite found the words to write about war yet, I’m posting this image instead. I was working on a simple portrait, and it started turning into something else. I don’t know quite what, but I like it. Hopefully you will too. Ryan (or, how I pondered the complexities of being a patriot)

Every day, crime happens. It can strike us at any time, suspecting or not, though usually when we are most vulnerable. No matter how hard we try, we can never be on our guard all the time. Sometimes, it is when we try to ignore it, pretending that it won’t happen to us, that it strikes. There is a common belief that we’re safer if we don’t provoke the criminal….

“Kadie’s is my kind of joint. Country, and I don’t mean that touchy-feely “you put me on a natural high” garbage they’re passing off as country these days. No, at Kadie’s it’s the old stuff…. Songs to drink to and to cry to.” -Frank Miller, Sin City Not that that’s entirely true, there actually are some good, sad country songs out there today, but the spirit of what he says is true. I…