Cowboy and horses
Day of the cowboy starts with a meeting with the horses. A horse for him not just a means of transportation, and team-mate and assistant. “When I dash for the herd on the dusty prairie, we with my horse, becoming one”, – says the cowboy Clint Deymsvud (in black hat), an employee Zed-X ranch in Oregon.
In cowboy Weights Miner is reason for pride. Today, he returned to the owners of cattle intact. He was proud, because he managed to avoid many misfortunes, which in his case is not uncommon. The reward is a cowboy thank the hosts, who tend to remain satisfied, taking their animals. But Miner meet exactly enough for one night. The next morning, he looked longingly at the empty pasture.
“It’s like death – he says. – We worked hard for several weeks, have invested in other people’s animals her whole soul and all the forces. And now we face the hills, where our horses graze only. It devastates.
However, it is difficult to say whether this is worse than the real death. Tyr, at Snowline ranch in southwestern Montana, where the weight Miner works today in the darkness wolves tore a calf, leaving no trace of him. The cow, stumbled in a bog, broke his leg, and Miner had to shoot her on the spot. One year old calf had eaten poisonous larkspur flowers and four hours later dropped dead.
Four years ago, Miner worked on a ranch in Idaho, where during a severe thunderstorm lightning killed a dozen cows, huddled under a tree. Bone gleamed in the pasture a few years, recalling the tragedy.
Completely read the article in the magazine National Geographic
The correct approach demonstrated American photographer Robb Kendrick (Robb Kendrick). It took him pictures of cowboys “antique”. What would the average professional photographer in his place? Would remove dressed models on digital Hassel and processed images in Photoshop. Robb also spent 6 years traveling to 14 States, Mexico and Canada in search of real cowboys. The images were taken of format camera on the metal plate (tintype or Tintype).
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