u/SiimplStudio

Whenever I post anything related to my Rico photography on Reddit I get such overwhelmingly positive feedback and encouragement and it feels like a real community.... Most posts seem to get between 10 to 20,000 views and it just feels like such a targeted community.

Posting the exact same images with much longer captions and hashtags and location tags and "all of the things" gets me barely any traction at all on Instagram, it's wild.

So I just wanted to reach out and let you all know that I love you and appreciate you all very much and thank you for making me feel like I am part of a family here!

If you do want to join my little insta following feel free to jump on and share some love there too, and make sure you let me know that you are from the reddit gang so I can follow your journey and share love in response as well!

@chrisbryan.co

Have the best day guys, here is a couple of quiet moments captured in Canberra behind the famous Parliament House. I had no interest in visiting the tourists site, but was quietly fascinated by these beautiful soft leaves reflecting on the harsh concrete of the facade.

I have been photographing architecture professionally for 3.5 years now (and 10+ years if you count as a hobby / trying to start up my own gig), and i've always been under the impression that you need top-end gear, a professional tripod, a remote timer to avoid camera shake from touching the shutter button, multiple bracket exposures, professional editors - the whole lot. And often, even with all of these things, the images come out feeling somewhat unnatural and emotionless.

Last night I had the pleasure of visiting a friends gorgeous Airbnb from 4-5PM before the sun went down, and I was able to capture all of these images in just 60 minutes, handheld, single-exposure, JPEG only, with my Ricoh GR3X, in below average light on a dark cloudy late afternoon.

I am actually speechless.

I feel deeply connected to my imagery, the natural colours are gorgeous, there is 0 blur, every image feels true to how I experienced the space on-site, and I spent about 1-2 minutes max per image editing (our professional editors usually spend at least 45-60 minutes per image for our clients).

Going to bring my insta back from the dead and post all of my RICOH adventures so feel free to join me if you wanna see more :) @chrisbryan.co

How has this camera been kept a secret THIS long. GUYS, why didn't you tell me about it sooner! Hahahah...

I have been increasingly removing myself from the creative world that I spent 15+ years building. Work has completely killed how I see the world, and my heavy, expensive gear has weighed me down (physically, and mentally) more than I ever thought it could.

I haven't been out photographing for 'joy' in over 2 years, and that had to change, so I picked up my first ever point and shoot (GR3X) 2 weeks ago for my mini staycation in Canberra, and instantly felt my creativity, my spark, my joy and everything in between rushing back, so I wanted to share my first proper shoot behind the lens with you guys.

Just some silent reflections on a very peaceful place, I hope my images do it justice, but more importantly... I just wanted to share this post in case others are feeling the way I did, and to let them know it's never too late to 'start over' and unlearn all of the habits weighing you down. Sometimes you just need a clean reset, to re-see the world through fresh eyes.

I'll be dusting the cobwebs off my insta page as well so feel free to come along for the ride if you like this type of documentary / street photography :) @chrisbryan.co

I am a professional architectural photographer in Sydney, and am used to striving for perfection (to the pixel) and everything has to be perfect ALL. THE. TIME.

I got sick and tired of this perfectionist mindset and decided to buy the RICOH GRIIIX last week to allow some wild, care-free photography back into my life. I don't care about blur, i don't care about grain. I just want my imagination to run wild again, and for me to capture images that convey mood rather than just subject matter.

For it's first session, I decided to walk around my neighbourhood at 10PM with very poor lighting. I'd had a particularly awful day at work and I decided to channel my anger, frustration and general dark mood through my lens, to hopefully get a small selection of images that make people 'feel' something rather than just see something.

Taking these images eally helped regulate myself and I have these images as memories to remind me that I will always have this tool to help me navigate through any day.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, and i'll be honest... I don't actually care if you like them or not. I am not looking for critique on whether they are too dark or anything like that either. They are unedited and I will not edit any images that come out of my RICOH. They are intentionally RAW and I hope they will always remain this way 😄

I took these photos for me and me only. I'm more curious if you guys were able to identify my emotions in the images i'm sharing, as this is something I really want to explore more - Photographing feelings, sounds, smells, and scents, rather than just photographing subjects.

Loving this camera and the possibilities it'll bring, that my $20,000 of camera equipment has been holding me back from. This is going to be my most freeing photographic chapter yet - I can feel it!