Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Photographer: A Dandy of a Summer
The summer I was seventeen was probably the best summer of my life. Just me, a chestnut mare and endless days spent on her back representing the world’s largest outdoor rodeo. I…
Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Photographer: 2018 CFD Junior Barrels
Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Photographer 2018 CFD Junior Barrels Meet rodeo’s future super stars! I spent my morning photographing the Junior Barrels at Cheyenne Frontier Days. I love that this tradition has…
Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Photography – It’s Like Coming Home
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it This brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here it’s like I’m someone else, I thought that maybe I could find…
Countrylifestyle Blog: Christmas in July
Countrylifestyle Blog Christmas in July I spent my first fourth of July out of college in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was working for National FFA at the time, and a friend treated me…
Country Lifestyle Blogger: The World Needs More Cowboys
Country Lifestyle Blog The World Needs More Cowboys An open letter to University of Wyoming President Laurie Nichols, The World Needs More Cowboys. Cowboy. The word embodies that spirit of the men…
Torrington Wyoming Photographer – Images from the Heart
“Find beauty in the ordinary, and you’ll find joy in unexpected places.” My favorite images are most often the unplanned ones…a moment between father and daughter, a sleeping puppy, an unguarded smile. …
Country Life – Airing My Dirty Laundry
Country Lifestyle Blog Airing My Dirty Laundry I hated doing laundry when it involved my husband’s jeans. A few months into our marriage, and I was ready to revisit our division of…
To All the Amazing Kinds of Moms Out There
Last week, my oldest sister attended my daughter’s birthday party. My 6-year old loves art projects, so some of her gifts included a rock painting kit and a tie-dye t-shirt kit. “Sorry…
Goshen County Photographer – Great-tailed Grackle
Crackles are a common sight in Wyoming. But I’d never seen a great-tailed grackle until I moved to Goshen County. These birds aren’t rare, but they aren’t common in this part of…
Just the Miles and the Memories
I cried in the card aisle of the drug store the other day. Not because the cards were particularly touching, but because it dawned on me I’ll never need to buy my…
Living the Country Life – Pheasants on the Downar Bird Farm
One of the goals I set for myself this year was to improve my video production skills. Photography is still my first love, but videos are one more way to capture an…
To My Daughter on her 6th Birthday
To My Sweet Daughter on your 6th birthday, What a year this one has been! You lost your first teeth, triumphed over kindergarten and became a social butterfly of your school. This…
3 Reasons to Say Yes to Outdoor Play
3 Reasons to Say Yes to Outdoor Play Improving Your Kids’ Quality of Life Through Outdoor Experiences One of our favorite places to go in my hometown is a children’s garden. Officially…
Grab Your Umbrellas
I am constantly humbled by my child. After a few days of thunderstorms and clouds and rain, I was grumbling about the weather as we set off to see the new pheasant…
Light It Up – Capturing Lightning Photos in Goshen County
Lightning and thunderstorms can provide for some dynamic and fun landscape images. A lightning photo I posted on my Facebook page a few weeks ago led to lots of questions from everyday…
The Elixer of Spring
My phone buzzed in my back pocket, calling me back to the present. It was my sister, wishing me a belated happy mother’s day. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Taking pictures…
3 Tips for Amazing Graduation Photos
Welcome to Tuesday Tips, a new section of my blog dedicated to helping you take better photos of your own friends and family. Look for more tips and suggestions each week, from…
Where the weather is schizophrenic and the rules don’t apply
I love spring. I love the feel of the warm sun on the backs of my arms when it’s finally nice enough to go outside without a coat. I love seeing the…
The Boldness and Courageousness of Youth
Meet some of the Colorado University Class of 2018. I’ve been looking at the images from a photo shoot with these ladies and I can’t decide if I want to laugh or…
Happiness is Not a Destination
“So, I’ve been thinking about this whole being happy thing, and I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be…
We Can’t Go On Being an Egg
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you…
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Extraordinary Everyday
“Mama, help me dig a moat please?” Nudging the dog aside, I sat down on the sand and started digging. As I worked the Minnie Mouse trowel through the March earth, Wyokiddo…
The Weight of History
One of my favorite urban spaces is the Goshen County Homesteader’s Museum. The museum is actually a collection of buildings, including the historic Torrington train depot, an early 20th century home and…
No Spring Skips its Turn
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. – Hal Borland “Mama, you should have seen that sunrise. It was purple and pink and orange and red,” my daughter greeted me…
It’s Okay to Be Bored and other lessons in the pit
While other kids here age were still rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, my daughter was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, sitting in a hole in the ground in a field. Today was…