ROAR!

My student, Steven Zink made me this skateboard to my specs from scratch, or individual layers of maple. He uses a deck press and all the proper adhesives, and for a shape he used an old Creature deck as a template. His company is called "Roar", and he presses seven blank boards at a time, cuts them, sands them, and either rides them, or sells them. Pretty Cool.


NF Walk

I met some great people today who worked hard to make this event a success! It was a pleasure to photo document their first year, for what will become an annual awareness and fund raising walk.


http://photos.ryanmcdonellphotography.com/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=813700



















Pool Session

Saw some old friends and good skating today as I shot this pool skating session. Thanks Dave and Julie for the grub!
More Pics@:
http://photos.ryanmcdonellphotography.com/GallerySlideshow.aspx?gallery=813446



















fishy

My son's fish, "Fishy" is getting monstrous, I knew I forgot to feed him last night when he was banging his face against the glass in anger this morning. I thought these were supposed to die in a month, it's been well over a year?





Trying my new Photoflex LiteDome XS for strobe and cool light


Just Playing around indoors with off camera strobe. I was using my new Photoflex LiteDome XS diffuser with a Canon 580 EXii flash and a 5D Mark ii set at ISO 50. Not perfect by any means, but I can drop the power on the flash more next time to soften the light, just getting to know it will take time.












Student "Artist Books"

Students are designing, writing, printing, and binding their own books from scratch in my High School Computer Art class. I'm quite proud of them right now.











more rain close ups