Although I was born on the west coast, I’ve been a mid-western boy most of my life. I grew up in St. Louis and then moved up to Minnesota for school. After college, I enjoyed the climate of the Cold White North so much that I decided to stay. Since then I’ve found a few new hobbies, including getting my private pilot’s license. These eventually lead me to discover I had a very small artistic flame inside.

It’s no suprise, I guess, my mother and father always had varying degrees of left-brain to them, but I was always the right-brain of the family. I never had any problems learning the technical details of things. Learning to properly expose a photograph and control depth-of-field came very easy to me. However, topics such as composition and how to makes a good photograph have been up-hill battles. I’m not worried though. After all, I’m young and have my whole life left to work toward perfection. And one of the things I love most about photography, it’s all subjective!

As you browse over my photos you can leave a comments at the bottom of the page. Also, if you hover your mouse cursor over a photo, there will be a “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” at the top right. Please use these and the comments to give feedback, they help me understand my audience and what other people like in photographs.

Thanks for visiting,
Ryan P Sommers