I got a chance to shoot one of the local ranches for #1 Properties. It was an amazing place. It's about 15 minutes north of Cheyenne. There are several barn structures, one dedicated to show cattle. There was a huge freezer in the barn for keeping cattle during the summer months, but it's not for what you would think. We're talking live cattle, not slabs of meet. This is done to help promote hair growth so the cattle can be given a somewhat stylized hair cut for the shows.

It's a large 880 acre property that costs more than I could ever hope to afford, but I would love a hunk of property like that. There are trees all around the home, but the rest of the land is typical SouthEast Wyoming property, open. You can still just make out the mountains of Colorado to the SouthWest and the Vedauwoo rock formations to the West.

It started out as a really nice morning. I arrived shortly after 8am. I talked with the agent and the owner for about 15 minutes about what they wanted, after that I pretty much had free reign of the property. Four barn structures (one was actually an insulated and heated workshop) and the house were in fairly close proximity, so I spent the bulk of the morning there. As time passed the clouds increased in number, making things a lot more difficult than I would have liked. The last half hour was almost complete overcast, so I had to make the best of what I was getting.

All in all though it was a great day. I wish I could get out a lot more like that. It was just one of those experiences that helps to remind me why I love photography so much.

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Welcome to my blog. I'm not sure how this is going to work out, I've never really done this type of thing, but I thought this may be a good way to keep people up to date with what I'm doing and where my photography is headed. I think it may be a useful tool to help keep me on track as well. Thanks for reading and I hope to have many fruitful posts in the near future.

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