Red Umbrella Project #46:  Singing Cowboy

This was a profitable shoot.  Someone left a dollar bill tucked in the guitar of this Jeffie Brewer sculpture.

cowboy day at the fort

 

There wasn't a big crowd at Cowboy Day at Francisco Fort in La Veta.  In fact, I caught this cowboy napping at his station.  Francisco Fort Museum is a collection of buildings, artifacts, and collections.   Founded in 1958, the museum is situated on the site of the original adobe fort, built in 1862.

 

La Veta, Colorado

8.20.2016

summer cowboy

 

A member of the Texas Tech Ranch Horse Team watches the club's saddle-breaking demonstration in the horse pen at the Ranching Heritage Center.

 

Lubbock, Texas

4.9.2016

It's boots and chaps
It's cowboy hats
It's spurs and latigo
It's the ropes and the reins

                       --Garth Brooks

 

Ranching Heritage Center

Lubbock, Texas

4.9.2016

saddle up

 

ABC Rodeo

Lubbock, Texas

4.2.2016

grooming for the grand parade

 

The 74th annual ABC Rodeo is in town.  Outside the Coliseum, a cowboy grooms his horse before the Grand Parade.

 

ABC Rodeo

Lubbock, Texas

ride'em cowboy

 

 

Many firefighters have a "second job."  This cowboy had firefighting as his second job.  Now retired, he runs cattle and rides in parades (and his mother was my third grade teacher).  There was a reason the Shallowater Harvest Festival put the horses and sheriff's posse at the end of the parade.  Wouldn't want to mistake horse patties for peanut patties!

 

Shallowater, Texas

10.17.2015

welcome to Jackson

 

There was just enough time before the tour orientation for a quick walk around the square.  I want to go back to the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar to see if the sign is lit up at night.

 

Jackson, Wyoming

this way

 

"Follow the Smoke" is a BBQ joint in Brownfield, but don't follow the smoke on a Saturday or Sunday --they're not open.  The sign is neat but it bothers me that the cowboy just has red pegs and no boots.

 

Follow the Smoke

904 Lubbock Street (aka US82)

Brownfield, Texas

9.5.2015

Carrizozo cowboy

 

The sign welcomes you to eat and drink in Carrizozo but the place is closed -- literally shut down and boarded up! If I had "do-overs" for this photo, which shows 12th Street Historic two blocks in Carrizozo, I sit on the ground and shoot up, silhouetting the cut-out against the sky.  However, these days shooting from low angles is easier said than done!

 

Carrizozo, New Mexico

8.4.2015

chaparajos

 

The Spanish brought chaparajos to the Americas when colonists began establishing huge rancheros in Mexico and the southwestern areas that eventually became Texas, California and  New Mexico. Shortened to "chaps," the leather leggings fit over a rider's pants, protecting his legs from brush and helping him stay warm and dry when he was out looking for cattle in rough country.

 

Ranch Day at the Ranching Heritage Center

Lubbock, Texas

4.11.2015

fence sittin'

 

Cowboy Wisdom:  Don't squat with your spurs on.

 

Ranching Heritage Center

Texas Tech, Lubbock Texas

4.11.2015

steer ropin'

 

Announcements have been made and I am pleased to have one image accepted in the upcoming 14th annual High & Dry Exhibit at the International Cultural Center.  This image hung in the 2013 exhibit.

 

West Texas Church at the Barn

8322 County Road 6500

Lubbock, Texas

9.20.2011

the cowboy gets the girl

 

Sara and Christopher

7.12.14

spring round-up

 

SH 114

Baylor County, Texas

4.23.2014

giddy-up

 

Jake encourages the Longhorn to take his laps around the arena.

 

J&B Cattle

New Deal, Texas

2.12.2014



working cattle

 

Every afternoon, Jake and his horse "work cattle"-- or rather they give the cattle a work-out.  Jake and his J&B Cattle provide competitive bucking bulls for events.  The bulls are run around the cattle pen working up a sweat -- the bovine version of jazzercise!

 

J&B Cattle

Old Amarillo Highway

New Deal, Texas

chuckwagon cowboy

 

Tutorial #3 "Adding Background to a Portrait"  in improving my photoshop skills. This image of the Block Y Chuckwagon cowboy had a washed out sky and with a few detractors.  Erase the telephone poles, add a background texture and the focal point is now the weathered face.

 



Cowboy Symposium
Lubbock, Texas
9.9.2011

cowboy

Ranchland Store along Highway 82

Benjamin, Texas