Been Out Fixin Fence Canvas Print

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On farms or ranches with livestock, fences are an important part of life. However, fences eventually get old and worn out due to damage by animals of all kinds. Cattle will crash through them, rub up against them and wildlife will jump over, crawl under and go through the stretched wires.

Cowboys spend countless hours riding fence and keeping their eyes on the cattle. When they see a broken wire, they stop to repair it. This involves some of life’s most important tools. Claw hammers for stretching the wire, extra pieces of wire to splice and re-stretch broken wires and of course replacement staples for the posts. Usually, the rural folks are up at the crack of dawn and keep at it until dark. It’s a life not for people who are used to a 9 to 5 job and who are looking not to work hard.

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Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...