Other Fort Robinson pictures, July 3, 2010

[Soapweed]

A nice modest young man from Cheyenne, Wyoming who is a very good artist

He really has a knack for painting animals.

Longtime friends, a cowboy artist and a cowboy singer

Ready to go on a supper hay ride

Two escapees from the reality of ranching

Our leader explaining the routine

We are just about there.

Arriving at the steak supper spot

Giving an interesting talk about the history of the area

He knows all about the past of this part of northwest Nebraska.

Interesting cloud formation

Nice setting for the Saturday night supper

Loading up for the return trip

Horses in the pasture

Straw bales to sit upon

Nice couple from Wyoming

Beautiful scenery in this part of Nebraska

At the Saturday night rodeo

It was a good rodeo and well-run from start to finish.

 

[Clarencen]

The picture of the windnmill and the horses. My favorite.

 

[Bob M]

Your taste is the same as mine, Clarence. I liked it too! If he would crop most of the foreground, bringing the windmill up close and crop everything to the left of the tank I would like it even better. Bob M

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Your taste is the same as mine, Clarence. I liked it too! If he would crop most of the foreground, bringing the windmill up close and crop everything to the left of the tank I would like it even better. Bob M

Gee Soap, everybody's a critic. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Soapweed]

For those who would like it different

4 x 7 landscape crop

How I would crop it if I had only myself to please :wink:

 

[Faster horses]

Any of those are idyllic pictures.

(Did I spell that right?) :lol:

 

[Bob M]

With green grass lush in the foreground,
And pine clad bluffs in the back
It is beyond the realm of my thinking
What this picture of beauty could lack

But now as I gaze up toward the heavens
To that cloud-covered azure blue sky
Above a windmill and some beautiful horses
I know Soapweed won't go awry.

He can point that camera in any direction,
Close his eyes and then pull the trigger.
It'll be one of Soapweed's best pictiures
However it is cropped I'm inclined to figger!

 

[Soapweed]

With green grass lush in the foreground,
And pine clad bluffs in the back
It is beyond the realm of my thinking
What this picture of beauty could lack

But now as I gaze up toward the heavens
To that cloud-covered azure blue sky
Above a windmill and some beautiful horses
I know Soapweed won't go awry.

He can point that camera in any direction,
Close his eyes and then pull the trigger.
It'll be one of Soapweed's best pictiures
However it is cropped I'm inclined to figger!

Apology accepted.

It must also be considered that the picture was taken on the move, while sitting on a scratchy straw bale in a bumpy hayrack,
pulled by a shimmying jeep going plenty fast. :wink:

 

[Clarencen]

A picture is an expression of yourself. It is what you find interesting, pleasing, beautiful, or inspiring. If you want to crop, make it what is pleasing to yourself. In your minds eye you framed this picture before you pressed the button. You are the author, forget the rules. I think the foreground gives it the proper sense of space.