Ryan J. Allen » photography http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog Everything RJA Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Haiti Three Weeks Later http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2010/02/02/haiti-three-weeks-later/ http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2010/02/02/haiti-three-weeks-later/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:07:39 +0000 Ryan J. Allen http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/?p=1776 Today’s update: Haiti three weeks later.

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]]> http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2010/02/02/haiti-three-weeks-later/feed/ 0 The Challenge: A Year in 100 Photographs http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/11/15/the-challenge-a-year-in-100-photographs/ http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/11/15/the-challenge-a-year-in-100-photographs/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:59:47 +0000 Ryan J. Allen http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/?p=1744 I am faced with a difficult challenge: a year in 100 photographs.

Before I left Ms. Kirkey was kind enough to prepare for me a photo album with a collection of photos of friends and family. I kept this photo album on my coffee table the entire time I was in Germany. It was [...]]]> I am faced with a difficult challenge: a year in 100 photographs.

Before I left Ms. Kirkey was kind enough to prepare for me a photo album with a collection of photos of friends and family. I kept this photo album on my coffee table the entire time I was in Germany. It was a great reminder of the people who help to make my life what it is.

The album also happened to be half-empty, allowing the perfect opportunity to fill the album with photos from my year abroad. I just counted the pages and there is space for about 100 photos. I wasn’t photo crazy most of the time I was there, but I have lots of photos among:

  • in and around my flat
  • the chicken castle
  • Built to Spill in Stutgart
  • a sloppy joes party
  • a pigeon festival
  • my Kinder Surprise advent calendar
  • a 1FCK match
  • the Karlsruhe Christmas market
  • the XXL restaurant
  • Skiing at Mehliskopf
  • London, Paris, and Germany with Katy
  • visiting at mine and castle at Neuenbürg
  • Munich, Prague, Strasbourg, Blackforest, and Zurich photos with Evan, MK, and Zout
  • Canada Day and barbecuing in Germany
  • the Alpencross
  • my trip to Madrid to see NIN
  • the Porsche museum
  • the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge
  • road trip to Brussels, and
  • my trip to Berlin

I don’t know how I can condense this to 100 photographs. So far my best idea is to do so using people–minimize the inclusion of photos don’t don’t include people I’d like to remember–but I still think I’ll be left with too many photos to fit in the album.

It’s too bad I wasn’t married to a photo-crazy woman who would just take care of this for me. This would make my life ten times easier in this respect.

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