The Sunday Sort

The Sunday Sort

My first cattle sort was actually a two day event. The first day being the experienced drive and the second day being the “fun show” version.

I will say I loved the speed and agility of the competitors in the open but the length and size of the “fun show”. Perhaps because my body was just in pain, but also because it was a much, much shorter day in comparison to day one.

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New Guilty Pleasure Editing Song

New Guilty Pleasure Editing Song

Back in August I was looking for a song to add to a very short TikTok video for an equestrian event to start hyping people up for the photographs I was actively editing.

And this song by Casey Donahew came up.

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Cattle Sorting Photography

Cattle Sorting Photography

I thrive on challenge and taking the best images I can even when it is something new. I will stand for hours even when my body aches and cries for me to get off hard ground, slip the camera bag off, and the camera and take a break. I put my all into covering events even when they are new because I want to surprise everyone with my images and surprise myself.

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Old vs New Seattle Needle

Old vs New Seattle Needle

It is funny to me as a photographer and traveler that while I have visited Seattle and even Photographed the Space Needle that was a block from my hotel room, I have never actually been closure to it than that.

I took my iconic image and packed in as much site seeing as I could and while I wanted to go up the Needle I never quite found the time.

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Lows in Photography

Lows in Photography

A lot of people find photography to be a very glamorous job. There is the travel, and taking pictures and doing cool things that give that impression but those things and social media doesn’t necessarily give the full impression of the reality of being a photographer.

I am talking about all the work we do, the hours we spent editing, curating galleries, answering questions, responding emails, and then obsessively checking for sales when we let the images we painstakingly took, curated, and perfected go live.

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