Oil Pastel Sketch

Still Life oil pastel sketch on black paper
original photo of same still life

Still Life with Basket

Whats for Dinner?

Eggplant and Squash

Wednesday Evening images at the ranch

Caught in a Headshake


Colt by Going To The Doc, a buckskin AQHA Calf Roping Champion. This is the most recent foal. Only one more due this season. Be watching in late June.

Every now and then you need to try something different. This self portrait with foal was taken from a hand held camera at nearly ground level.

Rainbow over yearlings. The rainbow base is on my two favorite yearlings

Moonrise in the night clouds

New Mare in the Pasture

This past Thursday a new mare was introduced to the broodmare pasture. This foal tries to introduce herself but is told "leave me alone kid."

Blue Roan mare has sort of adopted the youngsters in the pasture and tries to be protective. She blocks off the foal and tells the new mare to stay away.
She then escorts her charges away from the interloper
The new mare
Blue roan watches to see that New Mare keeps her distance.

Evening Ranch Images

No Photos Please!
Sunset through the trees abstract
The Real Sunset for Saturday evening
I see you over there
All Horses young and old have a thing for cap bills.

Dallas Museum of Art: Photographic Explorations

With museum lighting, interesting shadows abound. This shadow is from a sculpture in the European Galleries.
Romie Faienza captures images in the Barrel Vault Gallery.
Tree shadows on ground cover in sculpture garden
Figure walking in Hallway.
Floating leaves

Thursday at the DMA

The Icebergs by Frederick Edwin Church used to be on the No Photography list.
This is a Triptych of a series of images of an empty barrel vault and adjacent galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art. This is a rare sight and usually can be seen only once a year after the Beaux Art Ball held late in April.

Pasture Life at the end of April

Toby enjoying the late evening
South and West facing foals
What are you doing on the ground?

From the Kitchen: Das Wienerschnitzel

This past Friday I experimented with a German recipe for wienerschnitzel. I served it with German Potato Salad and Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage.

Last week I posted some foal photos from the back pasture, last evening I went to the back pasture and took some more photos of Toby.

Hey, What are you guys doing over there?


Running through the clover?

Running with the older gelding, Dam is in the distance in the upper right.
Camera Curious

Front Pasture Foals

In the last 15 minutes of light I headed out to the front pasture to photograph the most recent filly foal which was born last week. I caught her running to her dam.

This is another photo of the first foal of the year. She is also a filly
I caught these two fillies visiting. They will soon be really tight buddies

Video Portraits at the Center For Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art

In the 19th Century, photographic portraiture was a very different process than today. In order to get a good image, the subject had to sit very still for up to a minute to avoid motion blur. Instead of the ISO of 400+ we have now with our digital portraits, the colloidal glass "Film" was rated about ASA 1. To demonstrate the time required to sit still for such a portrait, we had our video portrait taken to see of we had what it takes to keep a straight face. In this "out take" Chuck D'Arcy sits for his video portrait by artist of the month, Romie Faienza. After taking the portraits, we viewed them to see if we passed the stillness test. After this experiment we went to a lecture and demonstration of colloidal glass plate photography by France Scully Osterman.

Super Stakes Cutting Horse Sale

This past Friday and Saturday I photographed the Western Bloodstock Super Stakes Sale
in Fort Worth. Links to the images may be found on my America's Cutter Blog.


Fancy Sugar Badger

Fasig-Tipton 2YO in Training Sale

The Fasig-Tipton 2YO-in-Training sale was held today, March 30, 2010. The Sale Topper was this Valid Expectations x Excellent Review colt which was purchased by Jerry Durant from Agent Pike Racing for $100,000. To see more of the High Selling Horses please visit this Gallery If you needing a print of a horse in the gallery, please copy the gallery image number and include when you use the Pay Pal form on the right sidebar.

Toby at 2 Weeks

I took some more baby photos of Toby Sunday evening. He is 2 weeks old now and getting more independent. He was very interested in what I was doing with that camera and came too close to focus several times.

Afternoon Rest

The Vizsla Dogs rest in the afternoon on the porch, Sometimes the cats join them.

Vizsla dogs enjoy the snow

One of the highlights of this snowing spring debut, was photographing these two Vizsla siblings having one of their practically endless play fights.
Although it may seem a bit intense, they always end up laying together while resting afterward.
The Male dog is Remy, he has the collar. Kiwi is the female without a collar (because Remy removes it within a few days).