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Barrel Racing ~ Women On Fast Horses


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Barrel Racing

Women on Fast Horses!!

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San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo

We have been here for all of the slack rodeo. Well organized and well run!

Barrel Racing was good fun, still presenting with the challenging lighting and tough backgrounds.

On the road tomorrow after a week at the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo.

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Good Stuff

Expanded Barrel Racing Gallery

11 Feb 2013

Rope Poetry


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Steer Roping ( ‘steer tripping’ in the vernacular) is a rodeo event of some discussion and dissension.

In deference to those who afforded me the opportunity to shoot this event I am choosing to focus the images in this post on the artistic team of horse, rope and cowboy.

In sorting and processing the day’s images I was amazed at the linear visual poetry that was the rope in (or out of) the cowboy’s hands.

The rope has a life of its own, a presence of its own.

Hearing this, the cowboys out there are no doubt guffawing … but they must feel like artists with the rope?

The horses I have witnessed this week are well bred and finely kept, well trained and well exercised.

They are athletes in their own right.

This rodeoing is a huge investment in what some have frankly referred to as a hobby, for some a paying hobby, but still a hobby.

Much the same as the photography passion.

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Black Hats ~ White Hat Sequence

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Sleight of Hand

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Right At Ya!

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Thank you to my hosts, Tom Thompson and Linda Rhodes of the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo.

A special thank you to a new friend and fellow photographer, Dudley Barker.

9 Feb 2013

Calf Ropin’ ~ San Angelo, Texas


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Horse, Rope and Rider ~ Visual Poetry

Apparently the images of this event that I enjoy and those that are considered the iconic calf ropin’ image are different.

Oh well, won’t be the first or last time. It is nice to be shooting for my own eye and not for a ‘market’.

This event was another tough one to shoot: tough lighting  and hard to fill the frame with all the animals and all the action.

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Expanded Calf Ropin’ Gallery

8 Feb 2013

Bull Dawggin’ Still (or Again) !!


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A day behind myself as far as posts go here at the San Angelo (TX) Stock Show and Rodeo.

Bull Dawggin’ images but today’s visual experience was calf roping.

Once again a challenging shoot: lighting, what to feature, go wide or long and focus on a single element. Never answered the question and felt challenged all day.

Am going to shoot people, cowboys and their stuff and behavior in their immediate environment tomorrow.

The action photography can wait for the women’s barrel runs on the weekend.

Having said that here are some action photography sequences from the final round, round two of the bull dawggin’ event.

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Not an activity for the older guy with the bad back; no wonder he does the photography.

And again.

It must be all about losing the hat.

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Expanded Bull Dawggin’ Gallery

Thank You!

7 Feb 2013

Slack Bull Dawggin’ ~ San Angelo Rodeo


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Too much good shootin’ not enough time to process and post.

The kind of problem I wish on myself, now that we are done with the grind of makin’ a buck at this, or at anything.

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The San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo

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Two days in, Slack Rodeo: team roping and bull doggin’. It has been a worthwhile education and great shooting thanks, in part, to Dudley Barker, rodeo shooter emeritus!!

Thank You Dudley, a very gracious and welcoming man.

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Linda Rhodes, executive secretary of the parent organization for the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo, worked with us to make this an enjoyable and worthwhile photo opportunity.

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Team roping was a huge challenge; lots happening and way far apart.

Bull Doggin’ on the other hand was compact, for the most part, and coming right at you, if that’s what you chose.

Sat around and watched half the first morning, got the ‘lay of the land’ so to speak. Challenging lighting and backgrounds, great sequences and ‘My Oh My!!’ action.

Slack Rodeo at the San Angelo Rodeo, about a week in length, is free, other than the gettin’ here and putting yourself up. Eighty degree weather with a gentle breeze. Excellent shootin’ to boot. What’s not to keep you.

Expanded Bull Dawggin’ Gallery

Comments appreciated.

Thank You

6 Feb 2013