Recently, we had the opportunity to shoot a cattle branding. We also had the opportunity to learn that you get funny looks when you wear a Yankees hat to a corral. Here are a few of the photos from that day. If you would like to purchase high quality prints of any of these images click here.
Something about cowboys really connects with people. Perhaps its the fact that they serve to remind us of something essentially American that we feel a part of, but have never really experienced. It might be that up there on horseback they seem free, a symbol of how we'd like things to be. Enough analysis, the bottom line is that cowboy equals cool.
In our time, you're likely to find a cowboy donning a Gore-Tex jacket with a cellphone or a cup of Starbucks in hand. Don't worry... I wouldn't subject you to that. Neither would I want to break the image with any unsightly plywood in the background... thus, we put this fellow out in the hills.
The photograph was taken by my father, William Kinsella. For the last several years we've "moseyed" around at rodeos having a great time together, city fellas wishing they were cowboys.
Something about cowboys really connects with people. Perhaps its the fact that they serve to remind us of something essentially American that we feel a part of, but have never really experienced. It might be that up there on horseback they seem free, a symbol of how we'd like things to be. Enough analysis, the bottom line is that cowboy equals cool.
In our time, you're likely to find a cowboy donning a Gore-Tex jacket with a cellphone or a cup of Starbucks in hand. Don't worry... I wouldn't subject you to that. Neither would I want to break the image with any unsightly plywood in the background... thus, we put this fellow out in the hills.
The photograph was taken by my father, William Kinsella. For the last several years we've "moseyed" around at rodeos having a great time together, city fellas wishing they were cowboys.