Photography | A Cowboy's Wife

Up Close and Personal

January 22, 2009 By A Cowboy's Wife 6 Comments

Git Cattle Git

January 21, 2009 By A Cowboy's Wife 6 Comments

Instead of roundin’ them up, he’s shooing them away. Little man thinks it’s his job to shoo the cattle away every time they come near the house; I think he does a fine job at it! And the shooing begins…. Git, psst, git! Are you talkin’ to me? Oh it’s on like Donkey Kong! Called [...]

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Looking Through the Fog

December 21, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 2 Comments

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Grazing the Sunset

December 10, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 8 Comments

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My Nikon Goods and My Nikon Wish List

December 8, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 6 Comments

I’m often asked what’s in my bag…camera bag that is and while it’s not everything I want, it’s a start. I’ll start with my bag. It’s a Quantarary Pro Backpack. It’s okay…a little bigger than I’d like to have but it’s been durable. If I could recommend one, it would be the Nikon Backpack that [...]

Filed Under: Digital Lifestyle, Photography Tagged With: Arts, batter grip, camera, compact flash memory cards, Digital single-lens reflex camera, Equipment and Services, memory cards, nikkor, nikon, Photography, tripod, Wide-angle lens

Windmill, Turbines, and Water Troughs

November 24, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 1 Comment

Checking waters are a normal chore on a ranch. Don’t got water, the cows can’t drink it right? Sometimes they don’t need fixin’ but they need cleaning and with the kind of water troughs you see below, it makes it super easy to clean. They have a drain that gets almost all the water but [...]

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Red Pears

November 11, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 23 Comments

Read the Pear Facts.

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Paying Tribute and Ridin’ High Butler Style

November 4, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, The Third Annual Tom Butler Memorial Bronc Ridin’ went on. I happen to go this time just to see my nephew in his bronc ride, however, he got bucked off and I won’t be sharing pictures of that. Instead, I will be telling you a little about this event and what [...]

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Turning Photos into Artwork with Photofiddle.com

October 10, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 4 Comments

COUPON CODE IS: cowboy15 I was excited to be able to try Photofiddle out. I needed a picture of my son up on the wall and decided to use the bronc ride picture that I previously wrote about and turned into black and white. Only this time, I chose to send in the original color [...]

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Editing Grainy Pictures and Cloning

September 17, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 5 Comments

I recently had a guest post on my food blog from Maternal Spark. Well, actually it’s a republished post of Butterfly Cupcakes with a little photo editing. I’m getting pickier about the photos that go on my food blog and not that hers were bad but they were a bit grainy and there was a distraction. With [...]

Filed Under: Digital Lifestyle, Photography Tagged With: butterfly cakes, clone stamp, cloning, paint.net, photo editing, Photography, photoshop, reduce noise

Hummingbird Up Close by Request

September 17, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 20 Comments

I had several ask for up close pictures of my hummingbirds…well, here they are:)

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Random Cowboy Photos

September 15, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 4 Comments

Not much happening. Gotta go and get groceries today so I won’t be on much. Lovin’ it though. Here’s a few pictures I took and edited. First one is of a spur my man made and had in his back pocket. This one is of my man helping the bronc rider get ready this [...]

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Vignette – Animals

September 9, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 36 Comments

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Meet Montelius but You Can Call Him Monty

September 8, 2008 By A Cowboy's Wife 10 Comments

We got a new horse to ride and he’s just a little on the spoiled side but that’s no problemo for these cowboys ’round here! This is Tyler’s first ride and since I had heard that Monty likes to buck a little, you know I was gonna be out there with my camera. I missed [...]

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