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Welcome to the Ryan Estes Photography Blog

I'm Ryan, and you'll often find me with camera in hand.  I live and work in the greater Philadelphia area providing brides, grooms, and families with cutting-edge photography.  Here you'll find the latest images, news, and bits of this and that from Ryan Estes Photography.  Come back often -- there's a lot happening, both in my life and in those of my clients.

What sort of images can you expect to see?  That's a difficult question to answer... photojournalism + fashion, portraiture + landscape, documentary + candid... real people on the most important day of their lives, and genuine emotions shining through.

One thing is clear: these aren't your grandmother's wedding pictures.  (No offense to your grandmother, of course...)

Category Archives: Portraits

Some fun in Philly

Sometimes people are surprised when they find out that a lot of photographers are friends with each other. After all, we’re the competition, right? That’s one way to look at it… but it’s also a lot of fun just to get together, share ideas, hang out, and challenge each other to grow in...

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Meggie & Joe

Here’s another engagement session for ya. Meggie & Joe are getting married next year and drove up for some portraits earlier in November. We had a blast shooting around the Belmont Plateau area!

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The Parker Girls

Shooting Photographing children is really a unique challenge… in some ways it’s more challenging than doing weddings because it’s just so intense… I’m constantly moving around, cajoling them to smile (or to stop smiling), and I have to be quick about it because kids rarely want to stay in one spot for more than about...

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Allison & Tom

Wow, seems like all I’ve been posting lately have been portraits… Yes, I do have quite a few weddings from recent weeks to blog as well and I’ll be getting to those soon — so keep yer shirts on!
A little while ago I had the privilege of spending an afternoon with Allison & Tom, a...

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Therese & Ryan

Therese & Ryan’s wedding next weekend promises to be a killer celebration! I like it when I have a chance to shoot with a couple before their wedding, and last week I got together with them to shoot their engagement session at Lincoln Financial Field. Therese and Ryan are both huge Eagles fans,...

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