In 2014 I had the opportunity of spending a day with Congressman Frank Lucas and his wife Linda on their modest ranch in far western Oklahoma. My assignment was to simply document a typical Saturday at their ranch in western Oklahoma. Nothing was staged, I simply followed them around on their normal day. I was […]
Goodnight Farms in Chattanooga Oklahoma
In 2017 I photographed a story about Cody Goodnight, co-owner of Goodnight Farms southwest Oklahoma. The assignment was for Top Producer Magazine, a regular client I work for in the agriculture industry. I photographed Cody and his father, fiancé and employees on their farm in early spring as they were getting ready for the wheat […]
Branding Cattle at the Howard Ranch
This is the second part of my story about an assignment for Oklahoma Today Magazine… Once the cattle roundup was complete, it was time to start branding cattle. Well, branding and ear tagging and vaccinating, and, shall we say, turning baby bulls into steers. Since it was the middle of a hot summer, Justin’s cowboy […]
No Man’s Land
The Oklahoma Panhandle was dubbed “No Man’s Land” in the late 1800’s because no state or territory claimed the land until it became part of Oklahoma Territory in 1890. The eastern end of the panhandled in dominated by irrigation farming and huge crop circles, while the drier western end it more dedicated to ranching. Most […]