9-10-08 This Western Lifestyle image was taken near the resort town of Vail, Colorado. We had perfect weather for this shoot and this image was used by Milano Hat Co. fo an ad in W&E magazine.

7-16-08 - This Editorial Cowgirl image was shot in Oklahoma in the same afternoon as the shot below.

7-15-08 - This Editorial Cowgirl image was shot in Oklahoma. I arrived about an hour before this image was taken and Bobbie gave me a quick tour of part of the ranch. I selected this location to shoot due to having a wide open area, some small hills to give elevation change, a single tree in the open and cattle. In the course of the shoot I used all the of the these elements.

7-14-08 - This Travel image was taken in Minneola, KS around 5 pm. I had left Denver, CO on my way to a ranch just outside Woodward, OK to shoot with a cowgirl I had met 5 years ago & could not get my travel plans to be in Woodward at proper time of day. So I was driving & while passing through Minneola I noticed 3 old grain elevators off to my left. I thought I really would like to shoot them but the sun was headed west and it was getting late plus I had another 2 hours driving time before I got to Woodward. Knowing I wanted to scout a while to locate the right spot to work and then get me & Bobbie back on site I decided to press on. I had driven past the elevators & I knew that I would not be real happy if I did not stop & shoot. So I turned around & grabbed a camera & shot two of the 3 elevators for 20 minutes, these are two of them.

7-12-08 - Magazine Cover Shot - The 2008 September-October issue of American Cowboy Magazine. This image was shot at sunrise in Colorado.

7-3-08 This Western Lifestyle image was taken near Hardin, Montana on the Little Big Horn Battlefield and the riders are crossing the Big Horn River. This is literally a few feet from Clusters' last stand and the Calvary are part of the Real Bird reenactment that takes place in late June. This crossing is difficult in that the water is still very high for this time of year and flowing very fast and there are several holes in the bottom so instead of walking the horses are swimming, and quite often so are the riders. The only other difficulty was putting enough insect repellant on to keep the ticks off & the mosquitoes from biting. They would still land on but not stick me.

6-30-08 While driving to Billings, Montana, I noticed a storm in the distance. I kept my eye on the sky and when the clouds were perfect, I sat on the brakes & whipped the Explorer off the Interstate (Scaring my passenger half to death in that they had not a clue just what in the Sam Hill I was doing). Pulling out my camera I aimed it towards this cloud & squeezed off a few shots.

6-29-08 This image was was taken in Colorado while I was shooting a fashion project - a totally different scene & model. I had directed the model I was shooting to a different location and while she was moving I heard these 5 wranglers leading 10 saddled horses from one location to another. I turned, raised the camera & shot 3 images before returning to shoot with the model who by then was approaching her new location. This is a wonderful Western Lifestyle Cowboy image.

4-22-08 - Magazine Cover Shot - The 2008 June-July issue of American Cowboy Magazine. This image was shot at sunset in Glendo, Wyoming.

3-18-08 - Arizona - This is a behind the scenes video of an Advertising Fashion photo shoot that was produced in a private home in Cave Creek, AZ. This was shot for Patricia Wolf, a fashion designer in Texas.

1-22-08 - Colorado - These advertising photographs were shot for a cowboy boot company needing some lifestyle imagery for marketing. In winter the weather is very important. This was one of only a very few good weather days on this shoot. The tempature was about 15-20 degrees and I'm standing in show about 3-4 feet deep with the camera in one hand & my horses lead rope in the other. I wanted be be sure I could ride back & not walk back.

1-19-08 - This is one of several fashion advertising images I shot for a client to run ads in "Cowboys & Indians Magazine." The client contacted me the day after the official magazine deadline had passed and wondered if I could get the job done in time. Like most magazines there is an official deadline, the next deadline and then the "absolute drop dead" deadline extended to very few clients. Part of the problem was getting the samples in time. The client & I were both at an International trade show in Denver and some of the samples were not available until 5 days later which was a Thursday. The weather was another problem because it was January in Colorado. I knew the location I was going to shoot would work as long as it was not snowing. I had to shoot a spring time garment, 2 summer time garments & one fall/winter garment. The fall/winter was going to be easy but the spring & summer were going to take a lot of work. The weather was not going to be good until Saturday, one day past the second deadline. I talked to the National sales manager and due to my record of never missing a deadline ever she said I had an extra 4 days which brought it to the "absolute drop dead" deadline.

I cast for models, hired the model, had all of the samples flown in & shot the project on Saturday. Because of very heavy traffic due to skiers going to Vail, the model was 90 minutes late. It was 15-20 degrees outside where I shot 3 of the images.

12-25-07 - I just added a new series of images: "Desert Spring" in my "Personal Work" section. This was shot in the last 2 hours of the day in the desert just outside of the resort town of Scottsdale, AZ. I had been watching the weather for several days & I finally got the weather I was looking for, black clouds, rain with sunshine. When I left the house it was raining but I thought it would clear just enough to shoot. So put on a slicker and jumped on the quad and roared off to the location I had scouted a few days before, about 4 miles from the ranch. The light was stunning and ranged from hard light to overcast.

The lenses used ranged from the Canon 15mm fisheye, the 16-35mm zoom lens and the 70-200mm zoom lens all on a Canon professional digital camera shooting RAW format and then processed in Photoshop.

6-4-07 - Colorado - This was shot for a Western Lifestyle Advertising Resort client just outside of resort towns of Vail and Beaver Creek.

6-3-07 - Colorado - This was shot for a Western Fashion Advertising client just outside of resort towns of Vail and Beaver Creek.

5-30-07 - Sunset in the rain - Colorado - This was shot for a Cowboy Hat Advertising client.

4-14-07 - Arizona - This was shot for a Western Fashion Advertising client just outside of resort filled Scottsdale in the Arizona desert.

3-31-07 - California - This was shot on a resort looking horse ranch for Rockies Jeans, a Western Fashion Advertising client.

1-26-07 - Colorado - This was shot for a Western Fashion Advertising Photography client. This was shot about 20 seconds before the sun went behind a mountian and the temperature was about 34 degrees. This image was shot with a Canon professional digital camera, EF28mm-70mm f2.8 lens set at 28mm and f4, 1/500 second exposure handheld, 100 ISO and then processed using Photoshop CS3 Beta and using the beta RAW converter. It was close to dark before we got back to the corral and by then the temperature was close to 25 degrees.

1-24-07 - Colorado - This was shot for a Western Fashion Advertising Photography client.

1-22-07 - Colorado - This was about 40 minutes after the sun had gone down for a Western Lifestyle Advertising Photography client, a trail riding outfitter. 

1-22-07 - Western Lifestyle Advertising Photography client, a trail riding outfitter.

1-20-07 - Colorado - This was shot late afternoon for a Western Lifestyle Advertising Photography client, a trail riding outfitter.

1-19-07 - Colorado - This was shot late afternoon for a Western Lifestyle Advertising Photography project.

1-17-07 - Colorado - This was shot for a Western Fashion Advertising Photography project.

1-11-07 - Shot an Editorial Beauty project with Danyelle.

1-3-07 - Added a new Flash Movie: The year 2006 in advertising photographs. This promo features fashion photography, beauty photography, lifestyle photography, cowboy photography, western lifestyle photography, aircraft photography and personal work.

12-6-06 - Shot a series of images for a Cowboy Fashion client. Shot just outside of Las Vegas, NV on a perfect afternoon in direct sunlight. Notice that the hats do not loose detail even in the very hard sunlight. This is because I had an assistant 70 feet towards the sun with a light modifying device that is normally only used in the motion picture industry. This allows me to maintain the detail without loosing the "edge" of hard light. I had another assistant off to my left with a 4' x 6' California Sunbounce reflector bouncing light primarily on the woman's face to ensure a good "Beauty" light.

This image was shot with a 200mm f1.8 lens shot at f1.8. Shooting a "Fast" telephoto lens wide open makes the background blur out which pulls the eye to the models & the hats. The image was then processed with an Adobe Camera RAW Converter then retouched and finished in Photoshop.

10-30-06 - Wolcott, Colorado - This was shot on a cold morning for a Cowboy Web site Advertising Photography project. You can also see it on my Flash Movie page. 

10-5-06 - Burns, Colorado - This was shot on a very gray, rainy & cold morning for a Cowboy Web site Advertising Photography project. 

9-30-06 - Sunrise in Wolcott, Colorado - This was shot for a Cowboy Advertising Photography project.

9-29-06 - Sunset in Wolcott, Colorado - This was shot for a Cowboy Advertising Photography project.

9-28-06 - Sunrise in Wolcott, Colorado - Shot for 30 minutes for a Cowboy Advertising Photography project. This project started well before sunrise which was about 7 AM. We were on the ranch about 5:30 AM to call in the herd of horses. The cowboys then saddled up and rode out at pre-dawn to locate the herd of cattle and drive them to the location I had scouted a few days before. I had several radios in use to be able to communicate with the cowboys as to the status of pushing the cattle in position and then directing them where to push the herd next.

9-26-06 - Sunrise in Wolcott, Colorado - This was shot while scouting for a Cowboy Advertising Photography project.

7-30-06 - Added a new Fly Fishing Lifestyle Advertising section.

4-28-06 - Just posted a new Flash Cowboy movie project which is from a series Cowboy images taken in Wolcott, CO. at one of my favorite locations to shoot in the winter.  It is just off I-70 making it easy to get to, it has a huge pasture allowing sweeping light to get in, it has several stands of trees, mounted Cowboys, 60-70 horses and about 100 head of Texas Longhorn cattle. The owner always was after me to shoot in the fall so in September I flew out and spent a week shooting. In this image I'm panning the camera with the action to help keep some of the image sharp enough to see what is in the scene and yet still have a lot of blur. The very nature of panning with a long shutter speed while hand holding the camera means I need to shoot a lot of images to get one or two stunning images.

The opening Flash movie segment, which took about three hours to design and prep & less than 10 minutes to shoot, was shot 10-15 minutes after the sun had set which allowed me to get the exposure down to 1/10 of a second and get the sky I wanted. What I wanted was for the cattle to walk without stopping to graze. I showed my cowboy wrangler what I needed and he put some feed down at the north end of the pasture and allowed the cattle to eat and then pushed them off of the feed to the southern end. He then had the cowboys push the cattle to the north end while I walked alongside the cowboys & the cows looking at framing. When I had determined the Line I wanted the cows to walk I showed this to the head wrangler. He then had the cowboys push the cattle back south & held them there until I said, Go! 

What I did was to shoot a few frames, pick up the camera bag and run to the next spot and shoot a few frames, grab the camera bag and run again. The time frame that a photographer has to shoot this quality, intensity and color of light after sunset is around 8-10 minutes, which is not long. At the same time I'm giving directions to the  wranglers holding the herd tight, keeping the speed to the level I was looking for and moving in the direction I wanted. The second Flash movie segment was shot earlier in the day while prepping for the final sequence.

4-13-06 - On the way to a jewelry beauty project below, I shot a few cactus- go here for a select. I pulled over, got the lens & a polarizer & shot for 2 minutes.

4-13-06 Sunrise - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a 40 minute Cowboy project. I always shoot at sunrise at this location. The horseman, Craig Marple, always has great animated horses & can control them from the ground.

4-12-06 Sunset - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a 90 minute Cowgirl project. This is one of a series of shots for an ad to run in "Cowboys & Indians Magazine." I had shot for 40 minutes and the sun set behind a mountain. So we waited for 40 minutes for the sun to "Set" and shot this series of images.  

4-12-06 Sunrise - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a 40 minute Cowboy horsemanship project. Here is Craig Marple working one of his horses. Note the front hoofs are off the ground as Craig cues the horse to turn to its left. 

4-11-06 - Paradise Valley, AZ - Shot a 3 hour Fashion Advertising project for Patricia Wolf. Patricia Wolf is a fabulous Southwestern clothing designer using hand painted leathers, metal and stone studs and fringe as principal design elements. These are to be run in "Cowboys & Indians Magazine." 

4-11-06 - Sunrise - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a 20 minute Cowboy project. he horseman, Craig Marple, always has great animated horses & can control them from the ground. This shot of DunnBoy is only one of a dozen high energy images I got that morning.

4-10-06 - Sunset - Cave Creek, AZ - Shot cactus - personal project. 10 minutes.

4-10-06 - While waiting on location in Sedona for the model to warm up & for the sun to return I shot a series of textures, go here for some selects.

4-10-06 - Sunrise - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a 40 minute Cowboy project. The horseman, Craig Marple, always has great animated horses & can control them from the ground. This shot of DunnBoy is only one of a dozen high energy images I got that morning.

4-9-06 - Sunset - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a Cowboy project. This is one of a series of images shot for CM Cinches to be run as ads in "Cowboys & Indians Magazine." 

4-9-06 - Sunrise - Rio Verde, AZ - Shot a Cowboy project.

4-7-06 - After spending the night in the Ft. Worth Stockyards Hotel, on the National Register of historical places, I shot the stockyards, or what is left of them as a personal project. Go here for a select.

4-6-06 - Shot an advertising Cowboy project with 8 times World Champion roper Roy Cooper - the first $2 million dollar rodeo cowboy - on his ranch in Texas.

1-29-06 - Austin, Texas shot in the afternoon/evening - scout for fashion shoot - the challenge was to find great locations very close to each other due to a very restrictive timeline - you can see a Flash movie here and photos only here.

1-29-06 - Sunrise - shot the Texas state capitol in Austin - You can see a select here.

1-21-06 Sunset - Shot a series of Cowboys in the snow  in Wolcott, CO.

1-21-06 sunrise - Shot a series of Cowboys and Longhorn cattle in the snow  in Wolcott, CO. - It was 11 degrees below zero. Challenge: Keeping the batteries warm. Solution: Put the batteries in a Lightware pouch with 2 hand warmers in with the batteries & keep the pouch in the inside coat pocket.

1-20-06 - Shot a series of Cowboys in the snow in Wolcott, CO. - I was riding on a tall horse and to give you an idea of just how deep the snow was while riding my boot was halfway in the snow it was 15 degrees when we got back to the barn.

1-16-06 - Finished the Fashion advertising project in Denver below with Heather 15 hours later, snow & cold.

1-15-05 - Shot an Advertising Fashion project in Denver with Heather in warm & brilliant sunshine. Heather is just great to shoot with. This was the third project we worked on together & she is just a great model to work with and just be with.