[www.crystalshadow.com...] -- As I find myself looking at wedding photography and blogs for my up and coming wedding next summer, I become more and more accustomed with the current trends in photography. When someone thinks of photography, I'm sure one of their initial thoughts has to do with weddings. Even though Ryan's portrait assignment has nothing to do with weddings, the aspects of his photos strongly resembled the websites I've been diving my nose into the last couple weeks. Bright colors, high contrast, and beautiful smiles are some of the many trends in wedding and portrait photography. Ryan's photos have those qualities and I find myself drawn to them. The simple yet blue background with colorful lights adds a lot to his pictures but doesn't take away from the people posing in them. I really like that about them. I also enjoy the way he used a shaped pinhole to distort the shapes of the light. Whether he meant to have a vignette around the edges, I like the way it looks against the bright background. Wedding and portrait photography has a lot of potential for artistic yet practical photos recently and I am hopeful in the fact that I can someday take a stab at it. I enjoy Ryan's pictures and the creativity they bring out of a rather boring posed picture otherwise!