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We welcome your pictures. We're looking for images that give a glimpse of the ranching, cowboy, and rural and working life of the West of today and yesterday. We're looking for vintage and contemporary photos: family photos, images of where you live and work, and the area around you.  If you have a photo to share, email us for information about sending it to us.    We'll post selected photos from those received.     See an index of all past Picture the West photos here. photo (detail) by Cindy Fitcher, Best In The West Photography, www.BestInTheWestPhoto.com   See the information about this photo below.   Keep this feature going ...send your photos.  Email us. If you enjoy this feature, you may also be interested in our  Western Memories Project, the personal recollections— many with photos— contributed by BAR-D visitors.  Your stories and photos are welcome.

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Week of August 30, 2010

We welcome your photos.

We're looking for images that give a glimpse of the ranching, cowboy, and rural and working life of the West of today and yesterday. We welcome vintage and contemporary photos:  family photos, images of where you live and work, and the area around you. 

Share your part of the West or the West of your past. To send photos and their descriptions, just email them to us.   

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California poet, writer, and horsewoman Janice Gilbertson shares photos from a recent Versatility Ranch Horse Competition. The photos are by Cindy Fichter of Best In The West Photography (www.BestInTheWestPhoto.com).

Janice writes:

These pictures were taken recently at my very first official Versatility Ranch Horse Competition.

photo by Cindy Fitcher, Best In The West Photography, www.BestInTheWestPhoto.com

That's Zan's 00 Buck, AKA Danny, I am riding. We have been busy all summer practicing, practicing.

This ole cowgirl had to learn some new tricks, the hardest being roping. When I was a kid, my father roped, as did the neighbor kids I rode with, and I longed to know how to handle a rope back then. My father wouldn't let me rope because he was afraid I would get hurt. He didn't want me to "lose a thumb." Now I would be happy to consistently throw a nice loop over an ugly plastic steer head.

photo by Cindy Fitcher, Best In The West Photography, www.BestInTheWestPhoto.com

Maybe by next summer Danny and I will be a team to reckon with.

photo by Cindy Fitcher, Best In The West Photography, www.BestInTheWestPhoto.com

This particular show was in Carmel Valley, a beautiful place about an hour north of where I live. It nestles itself along the Santa Lucia Mountains and behind the Sierra Salinas range. The Carmel river runs through the property there and we can ride in the river to cool off and water our horses. Getting to show there is a bonus.

Week of August 23, 2010

Oregon poet and sheepman Tom Nichols shares photos from a recent trip to eastern Oregon. He  comments:

I was living up to the Nichols motto of travel, "It takes only a few hours to get there but it will take a few days to get back."

This is one of my favorite photos.

On guard. Prescribed grazing for weed abatement on Albany, Oregon's urban rural fringe.

Grazing Pasja, a hybrid forage brassica.

The historic Shaniko Hotel, once the center of the sheep industry in Central and Eastern Oregon, is now for sale awaiting an entrepreneur and some enterprising sheepherders to bring it back to its glory days.

It's wheat to the horizon in all directions south of Heppner. This sign appears to be all that remains of the livestock industry but these hills still provide winter grazing for many bands of sheep.

 

Tom Nichols has shared other interesting photos in Picture the West:

  sheep photos and a poem...

  photos from Oregon's Rogue Valley...

  photos of lambing sheds in Klamath County, Oregon...
 

Read about Tom Nichols and more of his poetry here.

 

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