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Once again we went to the Annual Chuck Wagon Gathering at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.  It’s a fun time!  The Chuck Wagon Gathering is kid oriented with all activities geared towards children.  The activities include rope making, blacksmith’s making horse shoe nail rings, pony rides, stagecoach rides, horseshoe throwing, cowboy poetry and singing, and much more, but the best part is tasting the various chuck wagon meals that are prepared like the dutch oven cobbler, homemade stew, beans & cornbread, and various other meals that used to be prepared during roundup or cattle drives back in the day.  This museum is a great treasure to our state.  Enjoy!  Charlie

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I came up with a concept that I wanted to personally photograph, something unique and different that I haven’t done before.  I don’t use textures or mute down my photos that much, but with this series I wanted to experiment.  

We had some really bad fires across some urban & rural areas earlier in the spring and I wanted to photograph in some burned out areas.  However, we had 19 of 22 days of rain this past month so this shoot kept getting delayed.  I want to personally thank Tiffany (my beautiful model) for being my subject, it was very muddy and we had a few other obstacles to overcome, but all in all it was accomplished…. 

This  is one of two personal projects I am working on.  I have an idea for another shoot coming up really quick that I believe is going to be really cool as well.  Jac get ready….Enjoy!

Charlie