CT Ryan Photography

We photographed Julie and Rick on Julie’s family farm in St. Cloud, MN. It was a gorgeous day and a beautiful location. We had a lot of fun with their sense of humor and we can’t wait to photograph their wedding!

Jon and Amanda’s session was a great adventure! We planned on starting their session very early in the morning, but because of the rain we started a little later in the day and made our way to downtown St. Paul. We photographed in Rice Park, near the Science Museum and at the Landmark Center… it was a fabulous time!

Noë was so great to photograph! She had her serious moments, and plenty of smiles (especially when her parents put on her favorite music). I love when babies this age dance!

We photographed Ashley and Tony at South Valley Park in Inver Grove Heights. They will soon be celebrating their 1 year anniversary… it was special to capture their relationship and see the love they have for each other. Congrats on 1 year, guys!

I photographed the Christianson family at The Landing (formerly Murphy’s Landing) in Shakopee. It was a beautiful warm sunny day and we had fun poking around the historic buildings on the site, trying to stay cool in the shade, and taking some fun pictures of these guys with their smiley kids.

We set out to photograph Katie and Jason at the Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove. We were able to sneak some fair weather shots just before the lovely cloudy evening (which according to weather.com wasn’t supposed to produce rain) quickly turned into a heavy downpour. We decided to drive down the road to see if we could find a dry place to shoot and ended up knocking on the door of a kindly fella who didn’t even blink at the request for us to use his barn. (We didn’t catch your name, but THANK YOU!) We were drenched by the end of the session, but it was fun going with the flow!

I photographed the amazing, energetic Ervin family and had a blast! As you can imagine, there is a lot of chaos when it comes to 6 kids (2 sets of twins) but the love the family has is wonderful. They’ve been through many trials in the recent months, including Sean being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, but you can see how strong they’ve become as a family through it all.

Kedra and Patrick’s wedding and reception were held at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, MN. We really had a great time photographing their wedding… not only was it a beautiful location with a lovely couple, the whole wedding party was full of fun. Congrats, Kedra and Patrick on your marriage!

I had a lot of fun photographing Jenna. The light/weather that day was amazing… mostly cloudy, and cool. Her dance background made her a natural with posing. She also did a great job putting up with the many mosquitoes buzzing around!

I had the opportunity to photograph Sarah Prosen this week, who just won the silver medal in the double-mini trampoline at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (the competition is essentially the Olympics for her sport). Sarah will be a junior at Hamline University and this shoot was for Hamline Magazine.

We met at Gleason’s Gymnastic School, which is her practice gym in Eagan, MN, and it was such fun photographing her at work. The way the double-mini trampoline works, is you get a running start (similar to the vault) and jump onto a trampoline that’s slanted upward where you do your first trick, then land on a flat trampoline where you bounce to a second trick and onto the landing mat. Challenging? Yea. It was amazing to photograph, and she wasn’t even doing her difficult jumps.