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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 11h

Sunset in Boulder from a while back. It's a view about to be lost because of a mega development across the street... #weather #blueskyartshow

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some *seriously* trippy Augmented Reality. The video below shows how it looks when you point your phone at the framed original art (included in a comment below). See it yourself at player.artivive.com/artworks/6ab... #art #digitalart #AugmentedReality #ar #cgi #vfx #photography

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CGI fun. With all the social media slander over mercator projection maps recently, it's fun to remember how they work perfectly for making planets. #art #cgi #vfx #digitalart #scifi #sciencefiction

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Digital painting of Shelby, done in real time at a group drawing session. This started as a photo, and then modified on a laptop. #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #portrait #model #BlueskyArtShow #gold #golden

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hmm. It seems that the #BlueskyArtShow tag is #gold (not #golden). Let's try this again...

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An unusually straight photo for me, of model Sara. Only the floor is digitally modified. No AI. For #BlueSkyArtShow -- which has a theme of #golden today. #portrait #photography #studio #art #model #beauty

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#Undulating light painted by flashlight for #blueskyartshow. The model posed still for a couple of minutes in darkness while I moved around with a flashlight (torch). #art #photography #studio #portrait #lightpainting #bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome #artnude #fineartnude #model #malemodel

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sandalwood dreaming. For #BlueSkyArtShow -- which has a theme of #chaos today. One of my first composites. No AI! #art #photography #dreaming #composite #meditation

Swirling smoke with a lantern and buddah

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wildfire smoke does make for some interesting sunsets. No color adjustments in this photo. #wildfire #smoke #sunset #Boulder #Colorado #photography

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A recent photo shoot reminded me of #RedSonja, so I tried some new techniques with #cgi to put a real model in a digital world. No AI. #art #photography #digitalart #fantasyart #vfx #model #conanthebarbarian #swordandsorcery

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A large, loud mountain bike group packed the "voting" on a survey on this matter. Their bullying and disrespect for other people who want quiet access to trails on a couple of days a week reflects *very* badly on the cycling community.

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Album cover concept for a friend. Classic CGI, inspired by some Pink Floyd art. Not AI! #art #digitalart #cgi #albumcover

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A relatively petite real model turned #tall in a #cgi composite #scifi image for #blueskyartshow . An original creation -- No AI. #art #digitalart

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Marissa and her shadows. A real model photographed with her shadows in different poses and composited together. #BlueskyArtShow #Shadowplay #art #photography #blackandwhite #bnw #model #studio

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Too busy to post for a while... Here's a #shadowplay image for #BlueskyArtShow -- traditional handmade #cgi -- never AI slop. #art #black-and-white #digitalart

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Here is the full series: bsky.app/profile/ckry...

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#BlueSkyArtShow #background. A punny part of the Saving the World series. Real models composited into a digital world. Men rule, and the world burns. Women rebuild and take over -- paradise. #art #photography #blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome #model #modelphotography #artnude #cgi #3dart

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

These "Adult Content" labels Bluesky is automatically applying are completely out of hand.

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

For once, I post an artistic nude on Bluesky that doesn't get flagged as "Explicit Sexuality".

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

What I woke up to this morning. (I'm dog-sitting for a friend for nearly a month.) #dogs #dogsitting #photography #sleepingdogs #morning

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Dream series, where a model pose inspires a digitally created imaginary world. Here, the model's hand is spider-like. Not AI. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model #modelphotography #cgi #artnude #fineartnude

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Happy holidays from Blanche the dog, who I frequently dogsit for. Couldn't resist a quick non-AI image. #dogs #art #digitalart #happyholidays #boulder #colorado #woof

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I wonder how many auto accidents were caused by all of the traffic signal outages. I never came closer to dying than today when I properly treated an intersection with dark signals as a four-way stop. But another driver raced through at 45mph or so and missed the front of my car by inches.

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Prison of the Mind series -- final presentation. I put all three images in one frame and added metal wires for prison bars. Real model composited into a digital world. Not AI. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #cgi #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model #modelphotography #multimedia

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Prison of the Mind series (complete) Parts 1 -3. Real model composited into a digital world. Not AI. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #cgi #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model #modelphotography

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Panoramic view of it from Gunbarrel. It was worth a few pixels.

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Here is the original image. It's a real model photographed twice in the studio, composited together with hand created 3D digital objects. Not AI.

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Let's try this again. Bluesky is automatically placing "Explicit Sexual" labels on images like this, even though they have been self-labeled as artistic/non-sexual nudes. Not AI. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #3Dart #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model #cgi #artnude #fineartnude

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A better photo of the encaustic painting from Open Studios in Boulder

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A bit of fun at #Boulder, #Colorado, Open Studios tour. Encaustic isn't my usual medium, but Charli Ornett had wax and small boards available at her studio -- so I gave it a try. I love the sculptural quality of wax. #Encaustic #OpenStudios #art #painting #monochrome #blackandwhite

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Haven't posted here in quite a while, but the #sunset on my walk at Twin Lakes in #Boulder #Colorado was to spectacular not to share. #photography #nature #hiking

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I took a fish tank to a night photo shoot at a swimming pool. Not bad results for a first trial. #art #photography #model #blackandwhite #bnw #underwater #swimmingpool #abstract

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Final image will be "Cyborg City 3000 - Where Guns are so 2025", with a beautiful cyborg in a utopian world. But there's a mushroom cloud on the horizon...

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Image 3 in this series will be "Suicide City 2055 - Lots of cold, dead hands", with the model posed multiple times in a circular firing squad

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The Gun series (2 of 4 planned images that the NRA will *not* like. Model Pam S in cgi-generated worlds. No AI. #art #photography #digitalart #model #cgi #compositeart #studiophotography #guncontrol

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Christopher Ryan @ckryanco.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Dark Angel series - complete. An early experiment with compositing a real model into a cgi/digital scene. #art #model #photography #digitalart #cgi #scifi #compositeart

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