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Agriculture

In continuing with where I’ve been, I grew up on a dairy farm. My Dad taught school and farmed for 18 years. After we sold the dairy cows, we switched to raising beef cattle, which we still do today. I live in my great-grandfather’s farm house which was built around 1878 on the 150 acre family farm. I enjoy shooting agriculture; I guess it’s in my blood.

For about 15 years, I worked on contract for a large agrichemical company. I crawled through corn fields in the midwest, walked through wheat in the Dakotas, picked cotton and waded through rice fields in the South. Also had the opportunity to ride and operate some really big equipment.

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines.

Automobile, Motorsports

Twenty years ago, the weekends would often find me at the track; oval, curved or straight. NASCAR was in full stride, moving up. Personalities were everywhere. Advertising was strong and budgets were available. It was an exciting time in motorsports, and I was fortunate to be a part of it.

More Western

Portraits

A couple more western images from the past.

Western Fashion

fashion, Portraits

Continuing with from where I’ve been, a fashion image from a few years back.

Where I’ve Been

Landscape, Montana

Pardon me while I digress a little with this blog. I have been posting images lately that were shot close to home and in the past few days. For the next few posts, I want to revisit where I have been, both places I went and jobs I’ve shot. I think it is important to look back occasionally to understand how I got to where I am, and to perhaps give me some idea and direction to where I’m going, (professionally that is).

These images of seaplanes are from a campaign I shot in Montana and Idaho for an outdoor apparel company.

Old Pickup

Automobile

Old 1948 Willys pickup near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Friday Fashion

fashion

Commercial casual fashion image.

Sheep Pen

Animals, Farm, Sheep

Detail from Rising Meadow Farm, Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Pecans

Nuts, Trees

The pecans are beginning to open and fall on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Apple Butter at Goat Lady Dairy

Farm

My son Tristan and I were invited over to Goat Lady Dairy by our neighbors Steve and Lee Tate on Sunday for their annual CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) picnic. Steve and Lee set up and made a pot of apple butter, an old family tradition of theirs, assisted by the members of the CSA. We took our cider mill with us and made a few gallons of apple cider for the picnic. It was an enjoyable afternoon; food, music, great company and a little work.