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When working sheep in a large corral it is easier to move them into a smaller pen for marking if you can cut off a few ewes and lambs from the big herd. This bright orange canvas does the trick, and it really helps the photographer too. Also, the sun was just coming up to create some good backlight through the canvas.
Around our ranch many of the low hills have these strips of flowing shale that remind me of cat scratches. This was taken just as the sun was going down and it was reflecting in the clouds.
There are so many subjects to photograph in the high desert if you look closely. I saw these weeds just as the sun was rising to touch the delicate strands. It helps highlight the subject if you can position the subject where there is a dark background behind the weeds.
While driving back to the ranch from a trip through the Pine Forest Mtns. this view stopped me. It was just before dark, but there was a little sun still on the hill in the foreground that helps make this interesting. In the background are the Pueblo Mtns. near Denio, Nevada, with the low hills and desert between.
To me a baby lamb is precious and loving. I usually care for between 25-45 leppie lambs a year in the spring and the best part is when I have time to photograph them. I rarely use filters in my photography, but on this shot I applied a palette filter.
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