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GOP Debate

ryantconaty — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:26:29 +0000

Listen… I haven’t blogged in a while but I’ve just been busy, You’re just going to have to trust me here. I’ll try to get back on the horse.

-RTC

Steve Alviti

ryantconaty — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:41:52 +0000

Yesterday was H-O-T hot. I was able to knock out a couple of assignments though. Above we see Steve Alviti, president of Bel Air finishing in North Kingstown. Steve develops processes that, using thousands of combinations of abrasive media, automates the polishing, finishing and de-burring of all sorts of products. Really interesting stuff. In any case I’m usually under the gun and don’t have time to do too much lighting. Since I took the extra second to put a remote in the hopper there I thought I’d also take a second to shair the results with you on my blog. Have a nice day.

-RTC

air show

ryantconaty — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:21:18 +0000

ok so I’m chipping away at some of the editing and blogging I need to knock out after a few busy weeks and today is my annual air show blog. We all know from posts past that I am an absolute sucker for the miracle of flight so I’m not going to talk your ear off here. I’m not going to wax all hyperbolic on the beauty of man’s winged adventure. Nope. Keepin cool… here are a few more pictures to look at…

Gallery

Also, if aviation is your thing (and you are at all struck by how astonishingly magical it is that mankind, after just 250 short centuries of gazing skyward and dreaming, could let fall the shackles of gravity that bound our bodies to earth’s brown soil to instead soar with angles through 50,000 feet of blue air at nearly the speed of the sound of our cheers) perhaps check out some of Mark Garfinkel’s shots on PictureBoston.

-RTC

SLR

ryantconaty — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:49:15 +0000

I need to apologize to you. The blog has really fallen by the wayside but I’ve just been so busy. The Bruins’ Stanley Cup win and Whitey Bulger’s capture led to a few shifts at the paper. Plus Healz got me a gig at UPI and I did a few jobs for a local marketing firm. We had the air show to go to. I’ve just been up to my ears. Anyway I just got back from Portland Oregon and I’m ready to get back to work. Before I go thought I want to tell you that while I was in the city of roses I attended the Allure of the Automobile where I learned SLR does not stand for Single Lens Reflex as you may have thought. It stands for ”Sport, Leicht, Rennsport” (sport, light, racing)

-RTC

tree reclaims house

ryantconaty — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:09:40 +0000

Do you know how many trees-on-houses pictures I’ve taken? A forest’s worth. Storm damage is a pretty frequent assignment topic for news photographers and today I was fortunate enough to wake up and turn the lens on myself.

Yup a tree fell on my house last night. Meg, the cats and I are fine and I’m please to see my analogy come full circle … I’ve oft explained our tiny residence to those who’ve never been to be like a tree house that has fallen out of its tree. Last night at 2 in the morning the tree came to us.

Here is a gallery with a little more foliage…

-RTC

Graduate School of Oceanography

ryantconaty — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:25:54 +0000

So I get this assignment that says the U.R.I. G.S.O. is turning 50 and, for one of the stories PBN is doing next week, I should head down there at take a picture of a scientist by the name of Al Hanson who is the president of Sub Chem Inc. Now I’m Rhode Island born and I’m Rhode Island bread and when I die I’ll be Rhode Island dead so naturally I said yes to the job. Scientist Al was completely accommodating and careful to correct me every time I refered to his cylindrical underwater chemical sniffing robot as ‘the torpedo’. It is not a torpedo…. and no it wouldn’t be better if there were a scary face painted on the front says Al.

Oh well, I guess that’s why some of us are scientists and some of us are wise cracking news photographers.

Thanks Al.

As long as I have you here I want to mention this too. I’d never been to the G.S.O. so I decided to take a stroll around and see what kind of trouble I could get into. I didn’t get into any but I did discover the U.R.I. Foundation Boat yard. Evidently people donate their boats the the university and after they’re spruced up a little they are sold and the crew and sailing teams get a few bucks. This is what the guy on duty told me anyway. Check it out and maybe you can talk one of your buddies into buying a the best kind of boat… your friend’s boat.

-RTC

Vegas Baby!

ryantconaty — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:21:08 +0000

Did I tell you I went to Vegas? I did. We ate at the buffets saw blue man group and rode a few roller coasters. We were so busy I could only take pictures with my mobile phone. we saw the wax sculptures at Madame Tussaud’s and even played a little roulette but I think the most fun was the Scoot City Red Rock Canyon tour.

Here are some more pictures.

-RTC

ryantconaty — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:13:58 +0000

Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday I was shooting pictures of Tom Ryan, the CVS CEO for NYT. Now I see in today’s PBN that the keys to the shop have been passed to Larry Merlo.

Mr. Merlo I’d like to wish you the best of luck in your new position. I’m sure you’ll do a fine job and if you ever need a prescription filling for world class photojournalism please don’t hesitate to call yours truly (the CEO of Ryan T. Conaty photography) and I’ll put one of my best guys on the job.

-RTC

Organic Allergies

ryantconaty — Sun, 08 May 2011 19:19:07 +0000

As usual I’m way behind on my blog postings but I should probably mention I had some work in NYTimes last week and try to garner myself a little street cred. The captions goes a little something like this…

Despite her best efforts to choose organic products for her family, Wenonah Madison Sauer of Aquinnah Martha’s Vineyard had to switch to traditional skin treatments for her two-year-old (Amos Sauer) after he displayed allergic reations to the nut oils, perfumes, and dyes in the organic brands. (Ryan T. Conaty for the New York Times)

* note to editor: her other son, Waylon Sauer, 4 seen running through frame

I’ll link to the full story here for you to read.

Finally many thanks go to Wenonah for inviting me in to photographer her and her family. New experiences are sort of the point of this job and when else would I be invited into a Wampanoag household? Tell Amos and Waylon I said hi and I hope you like your picture. Have a great summer!

-RTC

Foggy Props

ryantconaty — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:35:02 +0000

Okey-Dokey well I’ve finally put up the gallery from the my New York shoot last week. I could have edited tighter. I should have edited tighter but I never know what people are going to want to use and I want them to feel like they’re getting their money’s worth so… here we are with a million pictures. Better that than not enough I suppose. In any case, while I was going through the images I came across this foggy file of downtown PVD’s “Superman Building”. I was waiting for the Megabus to take me to Manhattan (for five bucks- awesome) and this opportunity presented itself to pay tribute to one of everyone’s favorite Boston shooters, Yoon Byun. I’ve never met the fella but whomever he is he’s really good at his job. Lets hope he believes imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

-RTC