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Christopher Ryan

@ckryanco

Boulder, Colorado, programmer for media companies and photographer / digital artist -- I love the intersection of art and tech.

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A rainy day photo shoot composite. #BlueSkyArtShow #flowing #art #photography #fineartnude #nudeinnature #blackandwhite #monochrome #composite

07.03.2026 18:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

11.02.2026 04:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

27.01.2026 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What I woke up to this morning. (I'm dog-sitting for a friend for nearly a month.) #dogs #dogsitting #photography #sleepingdogs #morning

27.01.2026 16:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

10.01.2026 18:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

24.12.2025 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

20.12.2025 06:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

14.12.2025 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

12.12.2025 15:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prison of the Mind series part 3. Real model composited into a digital world. Not AI. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #cgi #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model
#modelphotography

12.12.2025 07:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prison of the Mind series part 2. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model
#modelphotography

11.12.2025 01:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Certainly.

12.11.2025 02:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Panoramic view of it from Gunbarrel. It was worth a few pixels.

11.11.2025 06:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

08.11.2025 22:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

08.11.2025 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prison of the Mind series I. Not AI. #art #digitalart #photography #compositeart #3Dart #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #model
#modelphotography #cgi
#artnude #fineartnude

31.10.2025 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A better photo of the encaustic painting from Open Studios in Boulder

23.10.2025 08:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

20.10.2025 02:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

15.08.2025 02:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

21.07.2025 16:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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...

07.07.2025 18:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

07.07.2025 13:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

07.07.2025 01:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dark Angel series - complete. An early experiment with compositing a real model into a cgi/digital scene. #art #model #photography #digitalart #cgi #scifi #compositeart

17.06.2025 17:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dark Angel series 2. An early experiment with compositing a real model into a cgi/digital scene. #art #model #photography #digitalart #cgi #scifi #compositeart

16.06.2025 16:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dark Angel series 1. An early experiment with compositing a real model into a cgi/digital scene. #art #model #photography #digitalart #cgi #scifi #compositeart

15.06.2025 15:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would โ€˜killโ€™ the AI industry Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Perfect admission that AI "art" is pure thievery. #art #AI

www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

27.05.2025 00:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ice fragments in Boulder Creek. For #BlueSkyArtShow -- which has a theme of #Lines today
#ice #winter #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmonochrome #bnw #naturephotography

10.05.2025 23:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Over 400 British musicians, writers, and artists ask Keir Starmer to back a rule requiring developers to be transparent about using their material to train LLMs (BBC)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

10.05.2025 06:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, it seems the "Explicit" label was removed after all...

03.05.2025 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0