My favorite Dances With Wolves line goes, "Somebody back East is sayin', Why don' he write?"
After getting a little heads-up from a friend, I realized that it's been, well, a loooooong time since I've posted a blog. Like maybe a year. It's not that I haven't thought about it, I've just been a little busy, a little lazy, and maybe a wee bit preoccupied. Horses, foaling/breeding season, a new puppy, and my photography has been keeping me going 24/7. So here we go: "Put that in your book!"
I just returned from a 5 day whirlwind photography trip to Colorado, and got some great images (to come soon. Probably.). In the meantime, here's an image to keep you going until later.
This is one of my shots from Colorado ~ it was a shoot on the Sombrero Ranch near Craig. Over 2 days, the crew drove a big herd of horses down from the winter pasture to their main headquarters, a trip of over 60 miles. I never did hear the final tally, but there were over 600 head in the herd. It was an amazing thing to experience ~ not just the visual beauty of it, but also the smell of the crushed sage, the feel of the dirt and dust, and the sound of thousands of hooves beating the hard ground. This is one of my favorite shots: Traditionally, cowboys dreaded riding "drag," i.e. pushing the herd from behind. Personally, I can't see what they're complaining about ~ sure, the dust is horrendous, you can't hardly breathe, your camera gets trashed, but WHAT a view! The horses ain't bad, neither!
