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Ever since I mentioned to friends and family that this web site would include a biography page, everyones been asking, What will you say? You want ME to write it for you? Rather than subject myself, and unsuspecting site visitors, to their stories about my colorful life, I figured Id better hurry and write something fast, at least to get this thing started. So here goes, We ( my husband and I) are working cattle ranchers, and my camera goes with me whatever Im doing -- checking fences, calving, moving the herd, or working horses or dogs. I like to focus my lens on everyday ranch life, particularly on the animals. My favorite subject is the most often over-looked element of ranch life -- the cows. Everywhere I look, artists are celebrating cowboys -- their lives, their tools, their art, their clothing, their poetry, their music, their food, their tack and their horses. I try to give the cows their due. After all, without them, those others are just boys! A native of the midwest who married a cattle rancher in 1993, I picked up a camera in 1995 to explain to friends back East what Id given up the city life for and why we put up with the hardships that often accompany ranching. Its the little moments that make it all worthwhile -- a cows tenderness with her newborn calf, the awkward, leggy playfulness of a young foal, the peacefulness of a frosty morning. I dont have time to set up shots, so the photographs are spontaneous. While artists in other media can create idealized images, Im at the mercy of time, place, weather and the whims of my subjects. (In fact, my first patrons were well-known western artists who used my photographs as inspiration for their own work. They encouraged me as an artist in my own right.)

 

Address: Regular mail: HC 32 Box 590, Quemado, NM 87829
Telephone: (505) 547-2858
Website: http://www.browncowphoto.com/