Linda Dufurrena

This seemingly simple photograph has a lot going for it, as far as I'm concerned. It shows the beauty of simplicity - it shows the landscape I am familiar with - it shows all the plays of light in the high desert. Whenever I am in this area making pictures I wonder if the artist, Maynard Dixon, saw the same view. He would often travel to the Alder Creek Ranch near these red hills and paint. This photograph was taken in the Pine Forest Mountains looking toward the Sheldon Antelope Refuge.

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When our sons were in 4-H there were endless hours of practice and grooming. While waiting for them to unsaddle one late afternoon, one of the horses came up to me, and I guess was tired of it too. The late sun was setting just as he was yawning.

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Magen already had her horse saddled and was waiting on the rest of the gathering crew. She had time for one last cup of hot chocolate. This photo was taken at our summer camp in the Bilk Creek Mtns. just after the sun rose. A full day of gathering cattle from the mountaintops and through the aspens awaited her. It's a job she knows well because kids on ranches are taught the ways of cowboying early from their elders.

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During the months of April and May I take care of all the leppie lambs here at the home ranch, so this limits my picture taking to only what I have extra time for - and that is usually the lambs and whatever other animals are around. I feed the lambs at least three times a day for the first two weeks and keep them in small pens, no more than 7-14 in each pen. This rooster would always be around when I went to the pens, and he loved milk, so when the little lamb put his mouth toward the fence the rooster tried to clean up his face.

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Lee Nelson was a friend who lived at a mine site overlooking the small town of Denio, Nevada. Denio has a population of between 60-100 people. It is where our three boys went to grade school, and it is the community that we have called home, even though it is 25 miles from our ranch.
At one point in my photographic career I worked with Patagonia Catalog finding models that would likely wear their clothing. The plaid shirt is one of their items, and Lee was kind enough to model.

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