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For more than 100 years, the rough-and-tumble nature of rodeo has been the sport's biggest draw. In addition to offering traditional events, such as bareback riding, barrel racing, team roping and steer wrestling, many rodeos also offer unique events like wild cow milking. I shot this image in the arena with my wide angle lens. It's one thing to watch an event from the safety of the stands, but it gives you an entirely different sensation in your gut when you're at ground zero and a wild cow comes running at you with that certain look in her eye. Fortunately she turned right before I shot this.

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Dance in the Dirt

June 8, 2016

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COOL GATHER

June 1, 2016

Four years ago (May 26, 2012), the Working Ranch Cowboys Association hosted its first championship ranch bronc riding in Amarillo, Texas. Top cowboys from Texas to Nevada competed in the event. The wind was barreling through the outdoor arena, but the stands were packed anyway. A palomino bronc got caught up in the excitement, as well, rearing up before the chute gate was opened.

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Blondie Wants Out

May 25, 2016

True Burson tosses a hoolihan loop on a young horse at the Four Sixes Ranch in Guthrie, Texas. We ran an article about True and his brothers, Zack and Dusty, in the April 2015 issue of Western Horseman, and I went to the Sixes to get photos of True and Dusty starting colts.

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True Loop

May 19, 2016

In 2007, Managing Editor Fran Smith traveled to Meadows Ranch in Mississippi for a story on its horse program. I tagged along to get photos. The operation had several stallions and pasture-bred most of its mares. That was neat to see in an age when so many foals are produced via artificial insemination. Early one morning during our stay, I captured this image of a stallion courting a gray mare. He foal is showing submission to the stallion by champing its mouth.

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Mississippi Spring

May 12, 2016

Cody Price moves a large group of Mexican yearling steers through mountain pastures near Cimarron, New Mexico. For a couple of days I rode with Price and his crew, who were managing 4,000 yearlings, moving them from one pasture to the next during the summer months.

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Mountain Rotation

May 4, 2016

Have I mentioned that I love wide-angle lenses? I was on the Hitch Ranch in Oklahoma nine years ago, and cool photo scenes were unfolding everywhere. Here, Buster Holland eases up to a young bronc while Todd Adams holds it steady. The crew rode several green colts in the bronc pen that morning while I lay on the ground and pointed my lens underneath the gate. The article on the Hitch Ranch ran in the April 2008 issue.

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Easy, Roany

April 27, 2016

Last Friday I photographed a branding on the Hall Ranch in southern Oklahoma. The area has had a lot of rain lately, so we gathered mushy pastures in dense fog. Before striking out, I got this shot of the crew unloading and mounting up. The ranch isn't one contiguous property, so trailering horses to various pastures is necessary.

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Foggy Friday

April 20, 2016

This is one of my favorite portraits. I met Buck Buckles in 2008. He lives in northwestern Nebraska and stacks and feeds hay with his team of horses. He is passionate about his Percherons, and they seem to enjoy working for him. In March of 2009, we

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Team Spirit

April 13, 2016

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