Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith
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The Leapoffaith website is my most passionate online creation. Its development is a culmination of my 20 years of experience and emotion in the photographic and creative industry that has so driven my life. Many of you visiting for the first time may have been directed here via one of my previous calendar websites. Please take the time to look through the site as I believe you will be inspired by what you find.

I have a great passion for presenting the aesthetics of the human form and this site will continue to showcase my passion in this area. I also have a great passion for honesty and freedom and this website explores these areas of life to a very deep level. Many of the models and creative people I have worked with have experienced some form of depression or anxiety disorder. My personal belief is that at the depth of these conditions is an amazing gift. To this end this website is geared towards exploring this gift and helping to spark a creative evolution of sorts.

It is my sincere passion that as many people as possible find inspiration through the pages of this website. We have provided an interactive facility with this site and encourage people to openly share their own beliefs and passions with us.

 
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Melbourne Photographic Workshops

 

After 20 years photographing and publishing imagery of people I have decided to share my experience and passion in an ongoing workshop series. They are run in a very relaxed and non pressuring format and are open to people of all levels of experience

 

Tony Ryan

I have for as long as I can remember been deeply passionate about beautiful aesthetics. In 1989 this passion led me to starting up Down Under Creations, a business that is still running now. I commenced as a photographic director and in 1995 took over the photographic duties. I have always loved what I do and am always keen to get deeper and deeper into my passion.

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Calendars

For much of my photographic career I have been known for the calendars I produced. From 1992 through until 2008 my calendars were an enormously successful passion for me. In this time I photographed and published the AFL Men For All Seasons, Pumped Up Down Under, Bodyline Femme and Bodyline male calendars.

Studio Hire

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Philosophies

I believe that relationship is the most amazingly powerful gift in the universe. However to this stage humanity has not in my opinion embraced this gift with a humility and passion. Hence we have created a human nature that is more about struggle and competition than it is about joy and unity.

I believe that the best way to create fulfilment in human life is through transparency. I believe that human nature is more about protection and ignorance than it is about passionately searching for meaning to life. This extends from our parenting through schooling, government and religion. I would suggest that every aspect of life is tarnished by manipulation of truth at some level. Whilst individuals allow this conditioning to cloud their own transparency we are taking ourselves away from true love and fulfilment.

The philosophy pages of this website endeavour to explore as many aspects of human life as possible. In this exploration we are passionate about presenting life with as much transparency as is within our ability to do so. We encourage people to join us in sharing their views and inspiring others to embrace their own truth.

Best Wishes Tony Ryan.

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Alick Wickham

Alick Wickham has inspired the naming of this site with an amazing feat he achieved in 1918.

Alick completed a world record dive in 1918 in front of 70,000 people. The site is situated in Fairfield, Melbourne, Australia about 10 minuted walk from my studio.

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Use but not Abuse

So it would seem that the saying ‘Use and Abuse’ is a fair assessment of how we often experience relationship. The purpose of this piece of writing is to question if we can use relationship in a way where we all benefit.

An avenue towards such mutual benefit could be achieved by engaging in a deeper exploration of relationship. Perhaps we need to accept that we all likely use externals and that this can potentially be okay. For example I believe that parents frequently choose to have children as they believe a child will add value to their lives. I also wonder that if there is a God why he or she would have created relationship if not with the intention of improving his or her experience of existence?

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Confusion

My parents stimulate my writing so much. They live a long way from me but i often talk with them on the phone. This morning my father really got me thinking and feeling. He has always been a very deep feeler but due to hurt early in life tries to use his head to protect himself from being hurt.

Often Dad chooses to avoid people and activities that may touch his emotional buttons. Further he often closes his mind to certain conversations in case he is seen to be lacking in intelligence. At school he had dyslexia and was often punished by teachers who back then had no awareness of the condition.

The thing is my father can be so intuitive when he is relaxed and allows himself to feel and speak. Ever since I was little I could sense the inner wisdom and strength of my father. However I also felt his pain when he was placed outside of his comfort zone. As an adult I have gained an understanding of why he has carried such fear in certain circumstances.

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