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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Oh my goodness. Did I really just title a blog post after a Dixie Chicks song? I’m not sure how I feel about that. That has been rattling around in my head all day as a possible theme for the post. But just now when I wrote it down, I realized what I had done. [...]
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Tomorrow is it. The game of all games, Super Bowl Sunday. We at Black Mountain Ranch, fans of both good beer and a good football game, will be watching. I personally am looking forward to the commercials and as a horse lover, the Budweiser one to be exact. The day on which the Super Bowl [...]
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Some of you might have already seen a few of these photographs circling around the internet, but in case you didn’t, we here at Black Mountain Ranch had to make sure that you did. Yep, you haven’t read incorrectly, that was in fact Shetland Ponies in Cardigans. In an effort to drum up some attention for [...]
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We’ve all been there. For one reason or another, things overwhelm us, and the barn is a mere distant memory. You forget the feel of the reins in your hands. You hardly remember the exact color and softness of your horse’s coat. You can’t even tell the difference anymore between a surcingle and a martingale. [...]
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Part 1 – “Squeeze Don’t Push!” There’s an apocryphal story I like about a photographer who was invited round to a dinner party. During the evening the hostess remarked on the quality of his work, “I just love your pictures, you must have a great camera” she enthused. The photographer politely thanked her. At the [...]
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I was thinking about the boot library we have in the Trading Post at Black Mountain Ranch. After going through all the cowboy boots that I have in my closet at home, I decided that it was time to move some over to the boot library so others can use them and I can have [...]
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So Sunday night marked the end of my three year relationship with a wonderful individual I had met in high school. He had helped me through some hard times throughout freshman and sophomore year, but as this third year loomed closer, the strain of being in a long distance relationship began to seriously take its [...]
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