Mat Ryan: March 15

I would say that I woke up early and drove to the coast, but the reality is that I became so excited to drive to the beach for sunrise, I couldn't sleep.



And I'm not at all disappointed by that.

Mat Ryan: March... Well, I got lost.

I've been a little sick, my apologies for the lack of updates. This head cold wreaks havoc on the creative process along with everything else, but I've been playing around a lot with basic brightness/contrast/tint/temperature and saturation... Enjoy the randomness that follows!

Mat Ryan: March 4, 5, 6, 7

(not blood- oil dye from work... happened by accident, and I thought it looked neat. and morbid. mostly morbid.)

Mat Ryan: March 3

I took a scenic drive with my friend Kerry this afternoon. I saw the cat-tails by the frozen river, and the colour from the sunset was so incredible I had to take a picture. Shortly after this picture was taken, I stopped at a local farm stand and picked up a pound of grass fed pure local cow :).

Mat Ryan: February 25, 26, 27, 28; March 1, 2

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Mat Ryan: February 24: Abandonment

I see this building everyday past the buildings and the trees on my way to work. Today I decided to walk down and check it out. There was a lot of cool stuff, so I'm posting a lot of pics. I'll let the pictures speak for me.

Mat Ryan: February 20, 21, 22, 23

Colour and texture? I can do that.
The past few days have been interesting. Between working and playing in the snow, and as Oz said, the Schizophranic weather patterns here in Vermont, things never cease to amaze me.

From the 20, a dead rose at work. It was a not very pretty rose, and looks better, and a little melancholy in black and white.


I was looking at the lens of my camera when cleaning it and notice that I could see through it. I had to see if I could get a picture of my eye. This isn't a great picture, but it creeps the hell out of me. I might try this again later.


Walking to a friends house in the snow, I brought my tripod and camera with me to get this shot. I intensified the red on the camera, other than that, no edit.


Called into work today to say that I wasn't going to work. Left a not for my parents and went snowboarding, and saw a clean van with a DRTYVAN vanity plate. I think they meant the inside of it.

Mat Ryan: February 18 and 19

Things people have in their cars brighten my day, and I fully support Trojan brand condoms.


I saw this in a customers car today, and it made me laugh. The owner iss actually one of my high school art teachers.

Mat Ryan: February 16, 17

I feel like my photo's have been a little dark lately, probably in relation to the season and my overall mood. So here's a very fake flower and a shot of part of my Dunny collection. Yay toys!

Mat Ryan: Feb 15

Today I went to see my tattoo artist, Jenna, again today, and since I wasn't the one getting a needle today I wandered around her house a little and became obsessed with the dead tomato plant that still has a tomato on growing on it. The tomato looks surpisingly healthy for a pretty damn fragile looking plant.



This picture just intrigues me, a lot. I mean, the orange dot is on Jenna's camera, where is it on Kerry's leg?

Mat Ryan: February 12, 13, 14

Icicles on the roof of my garage at sunrise. I woke up, started my car, saw this and I liked how they dripped onto the branch. I snapped the shot before I went to work because I was afraid they were going to melt.


On my way inside this afternoon, I noticed this bug, dead, lifeless, frozen, caught in a web. It intrigued me.


My goal is to find some beauty in everything, even at work. These are just leaves in the windsheild drain of a car.



I just finished a 60 hour work week. I'm tired. Goodnight.

Mat Ryan: February 11

Last night I got stared down by a barn owl upon leaving the bar.

Mat Ryan: February 9, 10

I hate cold weather. A lot. It gives me really dry skin and my hands are itchy, and I like to take pictures outside because there is so much to see outside. Like my drive to work yesterday, I saw a bunch of turkeys in the snow! I Should have used a zoom lens, but after I took the shot my hands were cold. I tried to crop it on the camera, it didn't work out so well. I should say its not as clear/detailed as I would like, so I'm throwing in a picture of the full moon from last night too. I used a red filter, and didn't realize until after that I had it set on the child portrait setting so everything's softer. I'm not sure how I'm feeling about that.... But I think through the trees its a good shot. Today I messed with some Dunny's in my room, they're these wierd little vinyl toys that are addicting like crack, and I mostly felt like playing with the trim/sepia and cross filter on my camera. There's like, a full on photoshop on that thing. Anyways, enjoy!

Mat Ryan: February 6, 7, 8

I got a tattoo! And there is some stuff in the days leading up to this... Like breaking 2 corkscrews in a bottle of wine...

Mat Ryan: February 5

Saw this while driving around aimlessly, couldn't resist the shot. Didn't have a tripod, it's a little blurry and over-exposed, but I do like it a lot. And I saw a face in the eggs. A very sad face, or maybe a face with a moustache... the world may never know...

Mat Ryan: Jan 30, 31. February 1, 2, 3, 4.

This is my car. She's the only material item that I will truthfully say that I love.

This is being bored at work with a wax crayon used for marking tires.

I just really liked the compostion of this.

It takes one man to work, but 3 to supervise.



From the near top of Mt. Cardigan.

I wonder which direction the wind was blowing....

My bosses dog is super chill.