I have two conflicting feelings: 1) I don’t want this blog to be dry but b) I also want it to appear at least somewhat professional. I have a feeling it’s going to be Option B because, let’s face it, it takes a lot of work to be this awesome. Maybe I’ll get my wit done with in this post. Supposedly they have a cream for that in Mexico.

The following is the first draft of my About page:

This kind of feels like my first day of German class.  ”Hallo! Ich heiße Ryan.  Wie heißt du?”

That awkwardness not withstanding, if you’re here, you’re probably wanting to learn a bit about me.

I am originally from North Dakota (yes, we have electricity and running water!), I like long walks on the beach and…wait! What site is this?! Now would probably be the appropriate time to introduce you my sarcasm. Sarcasm, audience. Audience, sarcasm.

While I have been interested in photography for well over a decade, it has been only in the past five years (which happens to coincide with the purchase of my Canon EOS 3­­—funny how that works) that I blah blah… Part of me once aspired to be a landscape photographer, but the realist in me told that part to shut the hell up and to “Get a job you dirty hippie!”

Though I would like to say, “I don’t know that I can be categorized under any one specific genre,” I don’t hold any illusions that I’m that unique. With a brief glance through the galleries of my site, one could quickly label me a “nature photographer” (“…with bunny-rabbit ears.” – Eddie Izzard).

I have, what some may consider, an unholy obsession with Photoshop.  But I’ve come to terms with this and so should you.

Yeah, that’s probably inappropriate.