Ryan Anthony Photography / Modesto, CA Wedding and Portrait Photographer

fall

2011-11-30T23:22:00.001-08:00

Brooke Part 2

2011-09-11T23:11:00.000-07:00

Brooke

2011-09-09T23:22:00.000-07:00

Brandon

2011-06-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

Carr Wedding Part 3

2011-06-07T22:17:00.000-07:00

Carr Wedding Part 2

2011-06-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

Carr Wedding

2011-06-05T21:00:00.000-07:00

I photographed a wedding a few weekends ago and before the ceremony the groom and his groomsmen decided to go ride some go carts and have some fun. Of course, I could not pass this up and had to photograph the boys racing and having a good time before one of the biggest days of the grooms life. I will post the photos from the ceremony soon.

test test test

2011-03-21T22:26:00.000-07:00

This was a test shot from a recent photo shoot that I did. More photos to come.

(yes that is my dog)

Tim and Michelle Part 2

2011-01-26T20:07:00.001-08:00

Here are some more of my favorite photos from the photo session with Tim and Michelle from Applehill.

I love getting different perspectives. For the shot below I was laying on my stomach which is pretty common when I shoot because to me one angle is boring and not creative at all.

Just after I took this image Michelle asked Tim if he was really ready to spend the rest of his life with her. He of course said Yes.

The rock.

This was literally the last photo I took that day and is my favorite form the photo shoot.

Tim and Michelle

2011-01-23T22:23:00.000-08:00

These are some photos from an engagement session I did of Tim and Michelle. I am so happy to have done this photo shoot with them and am even more excited to photograph their wedding in May. For the shoot we drove up to Applehill. It is just north of Placerville, CA. It was an awesome shoot with a lot of nice scenery. These are just a few that I liked from the session. More will come very soon.

Beuving Family

2011-01-01T22:43:00.001-08:00

Donald Glover

2010-10-19T23:20:00.000-07:00

It is very hard photographing a comedy show. I couldn't help but laugh at the jokes and one liners the comics were saying. Donald Glover was the headliner the same night I photographed Kris Tinkle. I loved these shots of Donald and thought I'd share. For those of you who don't know who Donald is you should check out the show "Community". It is hilarious.

L is for the way ...

2010-10-11T22:29:00.001-07:00

You look at me. I had an awesome time photographing Kendra and Craig the other day. I had a hard time narrowing the photos I wanted to post for the blog post, I guess that is kind of a good thing though. More to come.

Advertisements make me laugh

2010-10-03T13:42:00.001-07:00

Saw this ad in sf and thought it was pretty cool not only from a photography stand point but a reality.

Kris Tinkle Photo Shoot

2010-10-03T13:26:00.000-07:00

My cousin is an up and coming comic in San Francisco. He has done stand up abroad for the troops for the USO, is doing some shows in LA soon, Never a dull moment during this photo shoot. These are my top three favorite photos form this shoot, more to come.

Check Kris Tinkles comedy out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accmL9E2Xeg or http://www.facebook.com/kristinkle

more tennis

2010-08-11T07:27:00.000-07:00

mjc tennis

2010-08-10T07:21:00.000-07:00

day tree

2010-07-29T21:11:00.001-07:00

Got my mind in the tennis nets ...

My favorite image of "the net" series.

day two

2010-07-29T20:57:00.000-07:00

I know these images aren't great but unfortunately I can not control what time of day that my sisters coach has his camps. While I was in college I was taught that the worst times to photograph anything is between 10am and 2pm ... and the camp is ... from 10 am to noon. More images to come later. [click image to see larger]

Rembrandt lighting pattern.

This kid is the best 15 year old tennis player I have ever seen. I sat down and interviewed him.

Marilyn Monroe on the tennis court ?!?!

Pickin' the balls up.

New Project

2010-07-27T22:34:00.000-07:00

I have embarked on a new project that I am excited about. I was asked by my sisters tennis coach to come and take photos of his summer camps students. Once I was asked to come and take photos the wheels started turning on a bigger and better idea.

I plan on following my sisters tennis coach for a few weeks and document everything that I see.

I went out today for the first time and here are a few images that I took.

I love the pure athleticism in this image.

this kid was a character and a half

my sister

Rj and Kaitlyn PT 2

2010-07-15T19:23:00.000-07:00

They like to dance ...

My top 4 favorite images from this shoot

Rj and Kaitlyn PT 1

2010-07-14T22:58:00.001-07:00

I had the privilege of photographing my friends Rj and Kaitlyn last week. I took a lot of photos of them and had a lot of fun doing it. I'll post more images soon.

Just Hanging Around

One of my favorite images of this set.

Kendra

2010-06-22T21:53:00.000-07:00

Monday Monday Monday. My model bailed on me the night before our photo shoot so instead of not doing one I asked my hair and make up artist Kendra if she wanted some photos taken and this is what we got. I didn't really have a "theme" we just had some fun.

This is one of my favorite images from the shoot.

This is my favorite image from the shoot.

Don't mess with Kendra !

[untitled]

2010-06-19T20:02:00.000-07:00

Found this in the archives

2010-06-19T16:14:00.000-07:00

christmas came early ...

2010-06-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

New Web Site

2010-06-15T00:52:00.001-07:00

Lately I have been reworking my web site to include more images of people instead of just objects. That is why my web site currently looks like the photo below. click here

While working on my commercial web site I decided to make a separate web site dedicated to my black and white fine art images. There will be a link to it on my commercial web site as well. If you are impatient and want to check it out now you can.
click here

Tell me what you think.

June 12, 2010

2010-06-12T21:44:00.001-07:00

June 10, 2010

2010-06-10T17:13:00.000-07:00

I am currently working on updating my web site to include wedding images as well as my personal black and white project that I am working on as well.

Junk Yard

2010-06-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

This is a black and white series that I am currently working on titled "Beautiful Junk". I feel that cars are beautiful pieces of machinery and are moving pieces of art. All of these images where taken at a junk yard. To most people they are considered junk and useless but to me they are beautiful pieces of art that have a story that needs to be told.

inspiration

2010-02-03T23:49:00.000-08:00

I found this photo on my hard drive and has gotten me motivated.

NEW WEB SITE

2010-01-20T11:31:00.000-08:00

I've decided to launch my newly designed web site today. I still need to work on a few galleries but the important things are up for now, advertising, wine, contact and blog links. I hope you enjoy.

The Beginning...

2010-01-14T00:39:00.000-08:00

The image that started it all for me.

Old School

2010-01-14T00:30:00.000-08:00

I recently went through one of my hard drives in search for some images for my web site. While searching I found some images from 2006. In 2006 my high school made it pretty far in playoffs. So far in fact, that they played a few games in ARCO arena and I was there to capture the experience.

Happy New Year

2010-01-01T00:17:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year everyone ! 2009 was awesome but 2010 is going to be even better, keep an eye out for my redesined web site to be launched within the next 2 weeks. Good Night all.

Borra Vineyards

2009-12-23T12:49:00.001-08:00

Borra Vineyards is a small winery out of Lodi, CA. They produce some really good red wines as well as a few whites and what they call fusion wines. Fusion wines are when they take multiple wines and combine them to create a new one, think of it like a wine suiceide but instead of soda, wine.

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Markus at Borra Vineyards since I graduated from Brooks this past June. He has taught me a lot about wine and being that my family once upon a time grew grapes and has always been in the agriculture business I am naturally curious about it.

Recently, Borra Vineyards hired me to do a basic product photo shoot of there bottles on a simple white background. Their labels are very unique my favorite wine of theirs is their Barbera. It's a red wine that to me is similar to a cabernet to me because it taste good and its not over powering like some merlots can be.

The bottle below is a syrah wine, another one of my favorites.

I am a firm believer is supporting locally grown products, especially with living in California and being in a family that are farmers.

Family Photo Restoration

2009-12-23T12:32:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a Happy Holidays. One thing that I really like about the holidays is getting everyone together to hang out and enjoy time with one another to eat, give thanks, watch football and just have a good time. As I have done in a few of my prior post I am starting on restoring some of my old family photos for my grandma and mom, it's something I take great pride in doing

It's pretty interesting to me to see old family photos, especially ones that are of people that you may never have met before because they may have passed away before you where born or just live on the other side of the world. The later of the two is the case with me and this image. The short little girl in this image is my mom and the lady in the white in the back is my grandmother. Those are the only two in this image that I have met before. The two men in the image are my grandmothers brothers and they live in Oaklahoma and Michigan respectfully. I'm not sure exactly who the other two women are in this image but I could probably assume one was my great grandmother. If I have met them, I was in diapers and thus dont remember. I'm also intrigued on the location selection chosen for this photo to be taken: in a corner near a piano.

Before

After

1000

2009-12-23T12:26:00.000-08:00

My new business cards that I had made just came in ! 1000 of them hot off the press. I was excited to find a place that was local that had some very good prices especially for having 1000 made on an offset press. Riverbank Printing is where I go them made and unfortunately they do not have a web site.

holiday season

2009-12-21T11:44:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry I havn't posted in a while I've been consumed by the holidays and trying to get my Junk yard series of images into an art gallery. I do have some images that I took for Borra Vineyards that I will be posting soon as well as some old family photos that I have restored.

2010 is going to be epic. My goal is to get my photography into an art gallery. Some where, I don't really care where as long as people can see my vision. Maybe Modesto? Sacramento? LA? Pasadena? Only time will tell.

I would like to also announce that before the end of the year I will have a new web site launched to replace my current one. (same address new design)

He's gonna be a heartbreaker ...

2009-12-12T17:28:00.000-08:00

Did a photo shoot the other day of my friend Niccole's son John. He's going to be a heart breaker for sure when he gets older.

Wineo

2009-12-09T19:30:00.000-08:00

The other day I shot some more bottles of wine. This time it was for a smaller company, out of Lodi, CA. Borra Vineyards isn't a high volume company but what they lack in massive producing they more than make up for it in taste.

Here's a little taste of what I shot. This is a raw, undedited screen grab. More images will be coming soon.

New stuff ...

2009-12-08T15:00:00.000-08:00

I have been working on some new designs lately not only for my new web site that I am still working on but some new business cards to match my site. Here is a little sneak peak of whats to come in the near future.

Front of Business card

Back of Business Card

New Web Site Design

Tell me what you think. Be honest, I can take it.

Meet the Dimas Family

2009-12-03T17:10:00.001-08:00

I've been fortunate enough to know Brittney (purple outfit) since I was 5 years old. We grew up together. Went to school together from kindergarden all the way through high school. I'm very blessed to have friends like her that I have known for the majority of my life. Her mom, Sheila approached me about doing a family photo shoot and this is some of my favorites from the shoot.

The cute little boys name is John and there will be more photos coming of him soon.

Morris Show

2009-12-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

Mr Morris E. Smith. Host of the Morris Show on channel 23.

Turkey Day

2009-11-26T14:22:00.000-08:00

Family, Food and Football. Can this day get any better?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone !

P.S. On monday evening I will be on the Morris Show making my second appearance. Monday at 5:30 on channel 23 (comcast and charter cable)

Role Reversal

2009-11-19T21:14:00.000-08:00

Today I had my buddy Spencer come over and take some portraits of me for my new web site that I will be launching soon. Heres some of my favorite images from the shoot.

(photos taken by Spencer Rice, edited by Me.)

My TV Debut.

2009-11-17T16:31:00.000-08:00

What does a banjo player, hypnotherapists, a christian singer and I have in common? We were all on the Morris Show last night. The Morris Show? It's a public access show that spotlights up and coming people around my community. Now this wasn't an Harpo productions or Dr Phil or anything, the show aired on a public access channel. Morris and I are going to do a few photo shoots some time between yesterday and my next appearance. Here are a few photos from the show. Hopefully I will have a video to post by the end of the week.

Morris and I

Morris and I and part of the banjo player

November 6, 2009

2009-11-06T14:42:00.000-08:00

In June of this year I started working on a project that is really important to me and my family and that is restoring old images and making them look as if nothing had happened to them. Here is the first one of the series.

Before

After ... a little contrasty but I love it.

There will definitely be more to come in the future. I am teaching a class at my local junior college on photo restoration in 2010 that I am really excited about because I think that it will sharpen my photoshop skills as well as giving me more teaching experience as well.

November 3, 2009

2009-11-03T18:08:00.000-08:00

Here are some more image that I really liked that I took of Monika and Heath.

Oct 24th, 2009

2009-10-24T15:58:00.000-07:00

What a week. I made the voyage from Modesto to Santa Barbara to hang out with some friends that i miss and love so much. I was couch surfin' on my Zach's couch. Had a pretty productive few days: calibrated my computer screen, scanned old family photos and saw a bunch of friends and eventually drove down to LA to hang out with Justin. Saw his and Ada's new apartment which was totally decked out with the latest and greatest Ikea furniture. After we ate dinner, Justin, ada and I went out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant that I can't remember the name of. It was really good though.

After dinner we headed to the main event of the night. Kyle's art gallery show. I've been friends with kyle since I started back at Brooks Institute in 2006. His photography style is off the hook. He sees things from such a completely different perspective that the things that he creates are truly amazing. I'm blessed to not only call him a fellow photographer but a really good friend.

At the show there were something like 25 photographers in the show. There were all different types of styles and subjects that everyone photographed. This guy did a panoramic of the Effel Tower. Thats some crazy matte board cutting skills to go around the image.

This was my favorite piece that kyle had in the show.

It crazy how within a year things have changed so much. I remember when all of us where in school together it was hard to not find at least two of us hanging out and now we are all spread out. Erin and Darin living in Florida. Rachel and Lily living in Michigan. I'm in Modesto. Zachs in Santa Barbara. Julianne is in San Diego. Kyle, Derek and Justin are in Pasadena.

ok so maybe that was a little more info than you needed but my point is that we all come from different places to support each other. I am truly blessed.

mr kyle wong.

Zach

Julianne, Kyle and Justin

Family

Monika and Heath

2009-10-14T12:07:00.000-07:00

Anything worth doing is based off of love. If its marriage, a career, friendships, etc. I have been really blessed to have had a core of friends that I have known for the majority of my life as well as others who I have met along the journey that we call life.

A few days ago I got the great pleasure to photograph a life long friend's adorable baby boy, Heath. To put how long I have known Monika, lets just say that we say we have known each other since the first grade. Now I'm a college graduate, she went off to the air force and found the love of her life and now has Heath. Isn't if funny how life works some times ?

So a few days ago I met Monika for lunch and then came over to my place for a little photo shoot of Heath. I wish I could have gotten a chance sooner to do this because Heath is now 6 months old so he was trying to crawl all over the place. To make life a little easier, I placed my bed near my window in my room and just let Heath be Heath. We gave him a few things to play with to be entertained by. The kid is going to be a baseball player some day. He was all over the baseball and was just as happy as could be. Here is a few of my favorite images taken on that day.

October 5th, 2009

2009-10-05T12:35:00.000-07:00

You know its been a long time since you last posted when it takes you three times to come up with the proper password to log in. With that said, it has been a long times since I last posted something. Over a month I believe. Long time, thats like an eternity if kyle did that.

For right now, I am back in Modesto after graduating from Brooks Institute this past June. At first, I wasn't shooting at all because I was preparing myself for my classes that I was teaching as well as doing some hardcore marketing to get my name out there.

Well, some of my marketing has paid off and I recently did a photo shoot for a winery out of Madera, CA called Mariposa Wine Company. They are a small winery trying to hang with the big boys like Gallo and Beringer. Apparently, my timing was on point with them because when I sent them a cold email they got back to me really fast and begun discussing what they wanted to do.

The shoot was really fun and easy going just how I like things to go.

Just a little FYI, I am also working on redoing my web site. I hope that I'll have it launched soon, thats all for now.

Ryan

It's been a while ...

2009-08-20T17:19:00.001-07:00

Since I last made a blog post. Lately I've been doing some wine tasting. Its a new experience for me and I am actually starting to like it. I was doing some thinking one day and needed to come up with a strategy for what I wanted to do with my photography as far as marketing goes and I came up with marketing towards wineries. Upon doing my research, I found that there are a ton of wineries within an hr and a half drive each way of my home town. Last week I made my first wine tasting experience at a winery called Borra Vineyards. They are a very small winery compared to some of the big dogs like Gallo, Beringer and McWilliams. But nonetheless make some really good wine. I learned that within the Lodi area, the wineries mainly make Red Wines like merlot, Barbara and cabernet sauvignon due to the climate. Anyways, here are some photos I took both at the winery and after I bought some wine to photograph because I was bored

Tons of barrels of wine maturing before they get bottled. Most of the wine in these barrels are from 2007.

mmm grapes

This is Markus, he is the assistant Winemaker and he gave me a tour of the facility.

This is Bruce, He told me all about Borra Vineyards wine in the tasting room.
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This was one of my favorite types of wines that Borra Vineyards produces, Barbera

Some other wine I bought from Bev-Mo. Beringer Moscato

and a Calloway Cabernet Sauvignon

Thats all I got for now though.

July 22, 2009

2009-07-22T20:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I took some photos of my little cousins, these are my favorites.

July 12th, 2009

2009-07-12T17:11:00.000-07:00

I love going through the archives and finding gems like this. Hopefully I will get out of my slump and edit some more stuff from the junkyard soon and show the 3 of you that follow my blog some really good stuff. Thats all I got for now.

July 9, 2009

2009-07-09T21:41:00.000-07:00

Heres one from the junkyard. More will come soon.

oh, i almost forgot this little guy.

July 1, 2009

2009-07-01T19:12:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's crazy how time flies. Last sunday I graduated from Brooks Institute on Sunday. The very next day, I started my teaching career. I was fortunate enough to land a gig teaching photography classes at my Junior College through their recreation program. I was teaching photography to 10-14 year olds. At first I was really nervous but once I started talking the nerves where gone. I'm not going to lie though, the very first day, I wasn't as prepared as I should have been but I learned. I never thought of how much preparation goes into teaching until that day. Enough of me talking, here are a few photos that some of the kids took. I was impressed considering how old they are.

NOTE: The only editing to these images was some slight curves adjustment in photoshop other than that it is the kids shot entirely.

Taken by Nick - Age 10

Taken by Andree - Age 14

Taken by Ashley - age 13

Taken by Carolyn - Age 11

Class photo.

June 21, 2009

2009-06-21T17:46:00.001-07:00

Today is a day that I will never forget as long as I live. I am very thankful for all that has been given to me in my life. I have the greatest group of friends a guy could ever ask for. Words can not express how thankful and just how great I feel today. I did it, I freakin' did it, I graduated from college today. All I have to say is, I have the greatest group of friends a guy could ever want. I love you all very very much.

Ryan

P.S I got the loudest ovation at graduation when I walked across the stage :)

(photos will be up later)

June 18th, 2009

2009-06-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

Graduation is upon me. The count down is to 3 days until I walk across the stage and receive my Bachelors of Arts Degree from Brooks Institute. The script could not be written any better. From getting denied at this school in 2005 right after high school to busting my ass at a local photo studio back home to basically prove myself. It's still mind boggling to me that its actually a reality, that in 3 days, I will be a COLLEGE graduate. If you would have told me 4 years ago that I'd graduate college 4 years after high school, I would have told you that you where crazy but its really happeneing.
A few days ago, my hard drive crashed, I'm currently left with my emergency back up hard drive because my other hard drive is at my parents house. Going through it today, made me reminisce on where I am, from where I started. Its scary to be honest. Looking at these photos reminded me on how much I need to get back to my roots. Black and white fine art photography.

June 12, 2009

2009-06-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

This is something I learned in my Advanced Photoshop class.

June 11th, 2009

2009-06-11T14:51:00.000-07:00

These are some of my favorite images that I did last session, I know I know, really really late but I've been meaning to post these images up for a while now. Countdown is to 10 days for when I graduate from Brooks Institute !

Power Drill going through some pine wood.

Even gangsters like to rock some Old Spice

Take a bath already.

April 15th, 2009

2009-04-15T10:57:00.001-07:00

This is an screen shot of an image I'm working on for my portfolio. More to come soon.

Ryan

Turning of a new page ...

2009-04-09T10:41:00.000-07:00

I decided to make a new blog that would have some continuity with my web site and not be nearly as random as my last one was. This one, I vow to post more often and show the world how I see the world with my images and not many words. The best is yet to come from me.

Ryan