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ryan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:42:24 +0000

It’s been over a year since I’ve done a blog post. I’m still shooting occasionally, however most of my time has been devoted to other projects which I will share here at a later date. In the mean time here are a few shots from summer, fall, and december in California.

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Prophecies & Reversed Memories

ryan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:21:38 +0000

So I know summer is long over but I just moved out of the city to a farm north of Pickering, so moving and unpacking and work and blah blah blah have been bogging me down. But here are some shots from my summer. I was in iceland doing some climbing with new friends and I spent all of July working for one of the teams in the tour de france (cervelo). Myself and the director and camera man shot a doc about the team and traveled 9500km through the netherlands, belgium, france, spain and switzerland. The doc can be watched here on the cervelo website. I was busy working at the time and didn’t take as many shots as I would have liked. I’ll just have to do the tour again some day!

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Please Note Our Failure

ryan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:16:11 +0000

Photos!

I’ve been using some expired 220 portra nc which can’t go on any longer. Time to buy film. I am thinking I might start shooting 220 vc.

In this post…. Clay, Emily, Katherine, Alberta, London, Outside. It was 25 degrees out for some of these shots last saturday and there was some serious wind. Tonight (7 days later) it’s -4.

Tags: , 220, Alberta, Clay, Emily, film, Katherine, London, mamiya 7, outside, photo, photos, portra, wind

Contronatura

ryan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:33:15 +0000

So I’m not posting any photos today but just sharing some info. First off I just booked all of July off work to go follow the tour de france and do some rock climbing, should be a hell of a month. I’m going to shoot some mini documentaries about the tour stage towns and a few photo series when I’m there. I’m just booking flights and making plans now. If you’re going to be in france, netherlands, spain, or belgium in July let me know!

Speaking of traveling and being a mad man. My younger (and only) brother Andy has been traveling and snowboarding for the last year. He’s a bit of a mad inventer/lunatic. When we were kids we used to take things apart and make all kinds of crazy things. We once built a tandem bike out of two bikes, we built wagons, forts, etc. Our parents were pretty cool with us just using the back yard as a mad science department, even today my Dad says whenever i come home “Do you want any of this crap in the shed?”. There’s tons of it. I can get into all kinds of crazy stories but now is not the time.

When we were kids though my Mom brought us up to blue mountain one weekend to try snowboarding. We both got hooked and at christmas that year we both got snowboards. That was the beginning of years of going to the local mountain to snowboard after school everyday. I remember clearly being there one night and we (two of my friends and my brother and I) decided to try the terrain park for the first time. We all sat down at the top of the run and watched in awe as older kids with way cooler jackets and snowpants jumped and spun off of all kinds of obstacles. Being the ass that I was I told my brother to go first. He asked what do I do? I responded just go straight as fast as you can into that jump. My brother without hesitating stood up, aimed his 130 odd cm long board down the mountain, and sped into the jump. What happened after that I can still see in slow motion. At full speed off the top of the jump his board with the momentum of a pendulum flew 20 feet into the air dragging his upside down body up behind it. Eventually (upside down) he came down from the sky past the obscured other side of the jump like a rocket falling out of the sky and falling off the edge of the horizon. My heart sunk… I thought…”I’ve killed my brother, he’s broken his neck for sure” “My mom is going to lose it on me”. We all in a panic with sweaty palms looked at each other then rode down to the landing, seeing the backside of a jump for the first time. There he lay at the bottom of the landing totally fine with some remark suggesting he will attempt it differently next time. That was the start of years of snowboarding being the centre of our universe. I unlike my brother was fortunate in having a best friend who’s family was fanatical about skiing. I got to go on all their ski trips. BC twice a year, three trips a season to Vermont, I couldn’t have been luckier. All the while my brother was stuck at home, but he still worked hard. Eventually my parents started skiing too and I went on to return the favour to my friend and my brother would tag along on the big mountains.

Eventually I left for Toronto for school and lost interest in snowboarding. With no car and busy winters in the city, snowboarding just wasn’t on the radar. I picked up new sports kiteboarding, rock climbing, cycling and clearly am still obsessed. But my brother stuck with snowboarding. He went to school in Ottawa and spent more time on the mountains in quebec than he did in class. Eventually he decided that he couldn’t pass up the fortune of good health and a strong young body, and put school on hold to snowboard full time. He went down to New Zealand last summer and spent our summer enjoying their winter. When their winter ended it was the start of ours and he’s been in BC teaching snowboarding at Fernie ever since. Here’s a little video he posted on his blog of all the riding he did “down under”. Sticking with it has certainly paid off for him.

New Zealand Snowboarding from Andy Marr on Vimeo.

I thought since I’m gearing up to travel I’d share this. If anyone is interested you can check out his blog here.

http://wideopeneye.blogspot.com

Tags: , Andy, Andy Marr, brother, brother andy, Contronatura, fernie, Marr, New Zealand, parents, Snowboarding, video

Subject To The Ladder

ryan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:51:42 +0000

These are photos from my Christmas, Christmas vacation with my father visiting my brother in Fernie, and new years. They are in no particular order. It’s winter and I’ve been shooting nothing. When it gets warmer there are a few series I’ll be shooting and maybe I’ll post the random snapshot.

Tags: , ad, art, brother, christmas, christmas christmas, christmas vacation, father, fernie, Katherine, ladder, mamiya 7, new years, photo, photos, point and shoot 35mm, random, random photos, random snapshot, vacation

Washington School

ryan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:48:13 +0000

So I purchased a Mamiya 7 with a 65mm f4 from a woman in Boston. Actually a gentleman named Derek Vincent purchased the camera on my behalf and shipped it to me. He was extremely helpful and I owe him greatly. Anyhow I just put my first roll through it and am very happy. It was mostly boring photos and as such I will share them here. The rest of the shots are 645 from my bronica. The back broke while I was on a camping trip so I never even finished the roll so I just got it processed now.

Here are the 645 shots.

end of 645 start of mamiya 7 6×7

Tags: , 645, Alnis, boring photos, Boston, bronica, Brooke, camping, Clay, Derek Vincent, Emily, gentleman, jamie cooper, lindsay, Liz, mamiya 7, nicole, will

Hung Upside Down

ryan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:30:22 +0000

I know I haven’t been posting here too often recently but big things are coming!

In other news my friend liz months ago posted a note saying “The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me.”. I was one of those five people and as a result she made me some delicious Jams and I’ve really enjoyed them. But part of the deal was that I would have to do the same thing.

So the first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me. I don’t know what it will be yet and I’m not sure how long it will take but it will get done. Everyone is free to respond I dont need to know you.

Here is a random shot from the summer. Clay (the gentleman in this shot) is moving to Mexico with his girlfriend (my close friend Emily) in a week or so. So here is to you clay!

Tags: , art, Clay, delicious jams, Emily, gentleman, Liz, mexico, news, random, summer, will

Rhineland

ryan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:06:56 +0000

Hello all. This is my first digital post in a very long time. I went camping this past labour day weekend with Katherine, Lindsay, Will, Emily, Clay, Alnis, and Brooke. We had a wonderful time. We went up to Koshlong lake which is near Haliburton. We stayed on a fabulous piece of crown land. I put my canoe on my car and we made the trek up north. These shots are all from a digital camera. They are presented from newest to oldest. This first shot is Emily the day before we left. The last shot is when we arrived in the woods in the dark trying to find our way to the camp sight. Will was quite knowledgeable of the area and had camped here many times before so he had marked the site with some rocks at the service road. Anyhow I have included a shot of Lindsay driving in front of my car because I think it’s funny to take digital shots that look somewhat in the style of commercial car ads. This attempt was far from it but it’s still a funny cliche.

Tags: , 5d, Alnis, Brooke, camping, canoe, car ads, Clay, cliche, crown land, digital, digital camera, digital shots, Emily, haliburton, Katherine, koshlong lake, labour day, labour day weekend, lindsay, rocks, Weekend, will, wonderful time

These are My Twisted Words

ryan — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:32:53 +0000

Got a bit of film back recently. I went up to montreal for the Rogers Cup. I had never been to a tennis tournament before and Evan was kind enough to host me. We have a portrait that sums up our weekend nicely.

Some of the other shots are from when clay and emily and I went and hung out with my parents and took their boat out for a spin. More shots of me than usual on that little trip.

I got new batteries for my camera but am still having trouble metering with my 50mm, not sure what the deal is, but I’ve just been metering externally.

Tags: , 50mm, boat, Clay, Emily, evan, film, little trip, montreal, parents, portrait, rogers cup, tennis tournament, twisted words, Weekend

The Penalty

ryan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:31:02 +0000

Well it has been over 2 months since I’ve done a blog post and to be honest it feels like not much has happened. I haven’t shot much and summer has been a little boring, but there have also been a lot of good times in the last two months.

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