the love of my life

the first love of my life. by far the most beautiful horse I've ever seen. it's taken me awhile to post these since we had to put him to sleep this spring. Fortunately I took these photos last summer, but its taken me a long time to be able to look at them without crying too much to see the screen. Oddly enough it was sort of a miracle that I have these photos anyway cause pony was deathly afraid of cameras. I think the flash always freaked him out and he associated the sound of the shutter with the bright light. My mom accidentally took a photo inside the barn once and the flash went off while he was still in. He freaked out made a huge scene and ran out. For the rest of the day he stood outside the door giving her the stare of death. Ahhhh funny old cranky man stories. Ok here's the photos before I start crying....

my roommate and best friend

He's actually kind of handsome in these photos, I'm not really sure how that happened. Normally I think he's rather bothersome. Anyways, he needed some photos of himself ranching to send in to The Nature Conservancy for an article they did on him. Oddly enough we met one summer when we both had seasonal jobs at The Nature Conservancy. It is truly an amazing organization and I highly recommend checking them out.

He just happened to have the dog along so we figured we'd put him in the shot too. However as you can see it took awhile to get the two both looking, cows you know so distracting.

My first ever senior photo shoot

However, I have to admit that this is by far the most beautiful girl I know, SO it wasn't that hard taking her picture. I didn't really have to do any work. We had so much fun this day, a long long time ago now. We went everywhere from the lake to the mall to the sale barn. Thanks Kelli!! And my most favorite one first. Her day wore this shirt when he rodeoed at her age.