Time Heals

Sunset, Junior year Sept 2007
Time heals right? Everything gets better with time, and yet... distance makes the heart grow fonder? Why do people constantly try to over simplify emotions with emotions? Why cant I feel angry, and hurt and yet not have it be ether? Some times it has nothing to do with time, some times, its forgetting, and some times its moving on. But then there are those times where the sting of what ever wrong ebbs with time. Thoughts?

Love you all.

Rascal Flatts

Check out their three new singles in anticipation of their newest album. The singles are amazing and im stoked for the CD. Here comes goodbye is my favorite and i have it on my blog if you'd like a listen :) Love you all

Credit

How much are you worth? :)

Food for thought. Love you all.

Patriot Games

The red white and blue, so blue, dark blue. Honesty fleas in the hearts of once brave men, leaders, protectors, all that is left is greed as a once proud nation is forced to its knees by the irresponsible. Is any one else as pissed off as I am? We reached two mile stones this year with the president of the United States. He's black, and he doesn't know what the hell he is doing. Spending in Washington is rampant, big business fraud and greed is worse, and it leaves us every day Americans wondering what exactly happened and who is going to fix everything. A week ago the U.S. Mint printed one trillion dollars. That is enough one hundred dollar bills to fill a football field. Do you all know your history? They did this to pay off debts that we have, kinda like Germany did after World War II. Does any one remember how much their money was worth after that? Well I'll put it this way, people used it as wall paper. Its time to take our country back people. We can not, let this country fall to problems of the heart. If your not following politics and the world around, now is the time to start. We need to do better at keeping those in power in check. Im attatching something I painted with my tablet (a device that allows you to draw on the computer into a program like photoshop, you know, for you noobs) today to show how I feel. It is all original work so leave some feed back on what you think and how your feeling. oh you gotta open it big aka click on the image or you cant see much detail. i think

Technical Difficulties

So if you looked at my blog within the last two days you probably noticed the back drop was white and the text was yellow. No im not retarded, blogger was hatin on me. Its all good now though :)

My thoughts, My NY pics, and My new background

Spider RYAN!

So I made a new blog back ground as you can see. I made everything from scratch in photoshop, and here is how. I used brushes and textures for the clouds sun, and sand, and used my tablet (it a little drawing table that you connect to a USB port and you can draw right onto the computer) to draw the water and most of the soccer ball. I'm worried I made the ball look too 'real'. Thoughts? most likely this will be my back ground until the end of summer or until I leave on my mission. You know, which ever comes first.

The Lady Ga Ga pose on Scooters

Personal message of the week, and the one I am using for my facebook status right now. These are original thoughts so again, thoughts? :)

Make believe, remember your manners, and don't forget who you really are, a nobody with people who care about you. ~Me

So this is mostly on my mind lately because it seems like the people around me have been talking about this topic lately. It seems that every one is in such a rush to grow up, smother other people with their narcissistic self image and superiority complex, and convince them selves that they are some kind of superior being to some one else because of their status in life. I say make believe because we live in a world where growing up turns into sin, and corruption, and greed. People think growing up is all about money or who your dating and it destroys them. Little kids are so innocent because what they care about is how they can kill the robots in the sewers with their ninja turtle brothers. My nephew Gabe just wants to be like His daddy, and my niece Lily is the cutest little princess ever. I mean how many people that are in their teens, twenties, thirties etc, can get simple amusement by putting a hamper on their head? My nephew sawyer can. Little kids get it, life does not have to be serious ALL the time, but when it does, remember your manners. When we were in New York, we rode our Razor scooters every where to save on cab fare. To say the least, New Yorkers, did not like our Razor scooters. We were in Central Park for some epic scooting and some lady walked by and said to her husband "They'd be more masculine if they weren't on scooters." What the heck lady? Did I suddenly become a women because I'm riding something that went out of style? Die. And lastly, remember who you really are, with out friends and family, your no one. With out friends and family, who is going to call me Ryan? Who is going to be there to congratulate me when I something right, or help me up when I do something wrong? No one. People some times think that if they are attractive, rich, famous, or popular they are better than other people. But I think every one needs to remember that what made them all those things, is the people in their lives who are just as good, and have just as much potential as they do. Well, that's all from me, I'm done rambling after all I am a young naive 19 year old but that's how I see things. Love you all.

Oh and believe it or not i didn't have a camera in New York so I have zero pics :(

New York

So im in new york... right now... in an apartment designed by armani? yeah pretty hard to swallow, i know im having a hard time. I love everything about this city. Its amazing, i can see why these people love their city so much. This whole time i've just been in a state of awe. Its amazing how much man kind has built here. There are more people on two blocks here then in kaysville. Insane. We scootered from the financial district all the way to manhattan bridge, it was soooo fun. 

Composite and the last thing of jasmine

So this is a composite of my photoshoot with Jasmine, and the last thing I will be doing with her photo's its been a fun project but im glad to be done. Every composite is a new challenge and new chance for me to attempt to be artisitc and i really enjoyed this one.

Photo

I couldn't not post it, I love the feel of this picture and the lighting, just love it.

Photoshoot

So recently my friend Jasmine told me she is trying to get signed as a model, and asked if I could take some pictures of her for her portfolio. I decided, what the heck lets do it. Here are four of said shots from the photoshoot. There are loads that I still need to process. The site these were takin at it a pretty commonly photographed spot, its by saltair, Jake Garn uses it every now and then.
Side not, all these girl I know are obsessed with jake garns work... It is good dont get me wrong but im just not as amazed as they are? I look at other photographers work for hours daily so maybe thats why im underwhelmed but I dont know, maybe im just jealous. Thoughts? If you post a comment it had better had something about the pictures too. ;) thanks all.

Rihanna

So if you have been following the news lately, about every hour or so they talk about the beatings Rihanna has been taking from her BF Chris Brown. You just gotta wonder, why a girl that attractive would be willing to put up with that. I thought about the fact that he bought her a really big expensive house and i thought, yeah... if some one bought me a house i'd let them give me one good beat down, but she has money! Then i thought, maybe im not seeing something here? I could never full out just punch a girl in the face. Thoughts?

Princess Lily

So this is a picture of my Niece Lily in a princess dress my mom bought her in anticipation of their Disney Land trip they are going on this week end. The back drop for the finished on is a garden picture I took when we were in china. So enjoy let me know what you think.

Before
After

Thief

Jamie stole my song for her blog so i needed something new to keep it freshhhhhh. Nyrmmmmmp Jamie... nyrmp.

Me, Myself, I

So as a photographer i have always ether done scenery or portraiture. I love both... but i feel like im not getting any better. So im going to start a new set, of emotive photography. Taking pictures of things i think deliver a positive message or a message about whats wrong with the world. I think it'll be a good challenge because most image pieces you have to be very picky about how you shoot them. I'll put one of the only emotive pieces i have ever done at the bottom of this paragraph. It'll help my eye for a good picture. Besides, if your not always doing something to move forwards your moving backwards, there is no such thing as standing still in this life.

So thats a small thing going on with me. A big thing is that im finally starting to see the things in life I am truly and really greatful for. The things I regret that I have done. And the things im making better in my own life. I walk through the door of my bedroom every morning, fresh start, the beginning of my brand new life. Progress, dedication to a meaningless job at surf n' swim, and me striving to be the best me I can be. I have found myself living in my minds past. Memories, and it makes me nastalogic. I am greatful for every one in my life that has helped me to get ready for a mission even if they dont realize it. Im gonna talk about a lot of you so feel free to skip to your paragraph, I'll label :)

Family-my sisters Rindy and Megan, My Mom, and My brothers Jeff, Robert, and Richard. For pushing me to make the right choices. Your the best, I love and respect all of you. Megan your kind heart, Rindy your strong sense of right and wrong and always being there to talk, Mom for being an anchor in my some times troubled life, Jeff for showing me what a man of god should do with his priesthood responsibilities and for being a good dad to my nephew and niece. Richard and Robert thanks for being there. I'd go on but the rest of you dont read these.
Friends-Shane Jensen aka (mike) special shout out to you for being some one I can talk to, Kurtis Christensen, Steve Lefevre, Clayton Jenkins, and Connor Moody. You boys have always been there for me and always made smart choices. I respect you all so much for that. Some people will say I did this because my friends made. I can say that to but its always for good things. You all have never made me do anything bad. Much love. Lynsie Jymil, Jamie, Megan, Kelsey. You girls have always been nice to me and been there to talk when I knew i couldn't talk to the dudes. Thanks much, your great girls and deserve everything good that happens to you in life.

Change, I've changed so much lately and for the better. Life is full of its rivers that will drag you across every unseen rock, and rapid it can. How you choose to recover from those things is entirely up to you. You have two choices in this life that are made for you, when your born, and when to die. That blank road set between those two points is yours, and some times you break down, it seems like a little while ago thats all I was doing, for the first time in a long time I am HAPPY! And its because of the personal choices im making. Never let anything make you feel like your two far down. Even in your darkest hour comes the sun.

I Love all of you,
Ryan McDonald