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WPC – Perspective (3)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by | 6 comments

Weekly Photo Challenge- Perspective

Sometimes the devil’s in the details. One more red sky morning, March 10, 2014.

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WPC – Perspective (2)

Posted on March 10, 2014 by | 1 comment

Weekly Photo Challenge- Perspective

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My eye was continually drawn to the broken clouds in the saddle, but framed alone, it didn’t evoke the same feeling for me.

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From start to finish, the red sky lasted about 10 minutes.

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By changing my own perspective on the ground, I finally put the top of an oak tree in the saddle. But despite yesterday morning’s red sky, chance of precipitation is 0%.

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WPC – Perspective (1)

Posted on March 10, 2014 by | 3 comments

Weekly Photo Challenge- Perspective

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I was trying to be conscious of perspective while framing yesterday morning’s red sky photos, here aware of the different feeling each evoked and still capture the quickly changing light and color.

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WPC – Abandoned (2)

Posted on March 1, 2014 by | 13 comments

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A lone Blue Oak that has provided shade for cattle for as long as I can remember, well-before we hauled horses in gooseneck trailers. We still park and unload them beside the old tree to the gather the pasture, but it’s just not the same. Its limbs twisted within one another while alive, it must have been like a house of cards when the high winds came on August 18, 2013, to leave them resting against its trunk.

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WPC – Abandoned (1) …

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…before my time. The galvanized casing of an old water well, perhaps a windmill, elevated to fill a tank or water trough for livestock.

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Posted on March 1, 2014 by in Photographs

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WPC – Threes (2) – Good Guys, Bad Guys?

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The sound of a low flying helicopter brought us out of the house, our horses nervous and uneasy. We assume it was looking for marijuana gardens in canyons that have been bone dry since the beginning of the drought.

Camera shy, they avoided the house, then headed to a steep pasture where a 75 year-old man is gathering remnants on a young horse. We worry. The colt would damn-sure blow-up if face-to-face with a helicopter coming over the ridge—damn-sure scatter the day’s work and maybe get someone hurt.

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Posted on February 26, 2014 by in Photographs

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WPC – Threes

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The topic for this week’s photo challenge is “threes” WPC. With the help of our neighbors, gathering calves to brand is fairly routine, few words are spoken—an order where everyone has a job to do. We usually brand one calf at a time, going ‘old people slow’, trying to make it as easy on the calf as we can.

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Posted on February 23, 2014 by in Photographs

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WPC: Treasure

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Posted on February 15, 2014 by in Photographs

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WPC: Selfie II

WPC: Selfie II

Our true selves, just shadows on the landscape.

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Posted on February 7, 2014 by in Photographs

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WPC: Selfie

WPC: Selfie

My wife and blog-partner Robbin caught me coming off the roof, weak-kneed, after sweeping the chimney. I played with the photo. For more about the Weekly Photo Challenge click HERE

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Posted on February 7, 2014 by in Photographs

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