A COWGIRLS GUIDE TO GETTING GREAT PICTURES: Part 6 – Which camera is right for you? When it comes to taking photos I have always maintained that the camera is just a tool. In the same way that buying a canvas, some paints and brushes doesn’t make you the next Picasso, owning a top of the [...]
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Happy Easter, from our family to yours! Since we don’t endorse dressing your equine companion as the Easter Bunny, we wanted to share this beautiful photograph taken on Easter Island! We hope to see you at the ranch this summer! If you are still looking to find the perfect family dude ranch vacation, check us [...]
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We can’t believe that the season is here! ! It seems like just yesterday we sent our band of 70 horses off to greener pastures for the winter, closed the door to the tack room and waited patiently for spring to come. Well, low and behold, our season starts up again this May 26th! If [...]
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Part 5 – Understanding Your Camera I’m going back to basics this week. Way back. For those of you who understand the very essential principles of what your camera does when it takes a photo I apologize Feel free to go look at Jimmy’s blog or a funny cat video on You Tube…whatever. But it’s been [...]
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One of our favorite parts of living the dude ranch lifestyle are the evenings and time spent in the saloon. While we do enjoy it with a cold beer or margarita in hand, the best part is the friendship, laughter and fun that happens every night. Our head Wrangler from last season, Anna Simons has [...]
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PART 4: LET THERE BE LIGHT Light is the most essential ingredient for taking photos. The word photography actually derives from the Greek ‘painting with light”. Light comes into your camera through the aperture passes through various elements where it gets focussed on the recording media. If enough of it falls on it over the time [...]
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Part 3 – Composition continued As with all things creative, there’s no such thing as ‘perfect’ composition. Photography is a subjective art form, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so you won’t ever reach a point at which you have scored any kind of maximum points. But it is possible to have poorly [...]
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Part 2 Composition – The Rule of Thirds At the ranch there are so many great images to capture, (the aspen covered mountains, calf roping in the arena, two-stepping in the saloon, rifle shooting at the range, the list is endless) that it can be somewhat overwhelming. The eye, courtesy of the information sent to [...]
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