One of the evening shoots we have at Philmont Scout Ranch each year is with the wranglers. We practice panning as the wranglers run the horses past us, great fun of speed and dust. Then once the horses figure out what we’re doing, they say no more and they park in front of us. It’s then we turn our attention to the wranglers themselves. They are such great human beings! And it takes only a couple of questions and the smiles, laughter fills the air. Then when I let my imagination loose as I work on making portraits that explains my imagination. This year was simply, “Billy”?

While it didn’t have a rental sign in the window, that’s where my imagination went. That angry cloud overheard set the tone for the story going through my head. I put the Z 8 in Dark Tone Monochrome, set the lens to 24mm and arranged the elements moving my feet to tell the story. The rest meant to set your mind down the same path of basically saying, you might check in …