Cowgirl Sandy Photography

05/25/2026

More scenes from the Geroux Ranch branding

05/20/2026

LUMINOUS
Early morning at the Great American Horse Drive is one of my favorite settings. No one else is there, the horses are just being horses in anticipation of the big day. This palomino was still looking for a friend as he loped across the backlit horizon. There is nothing like mornings for me
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05/20/2026

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05/18/2026

Geroux Ranch Branding

05/18/2026

05/16/2026

HOPE THERE’S MORE THAN DUST IN THEM STORM CLOUDS
just finished framing this giclee on canvas.
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05/16/2026

THE REAL DEAL.
this family was at last week’s branding and I sure spent a lot of time watching them. They were true to the bone cowboys and cowgirls. You just can’t imitate the real thing and believe me, they are the real deal. Lots of grit and toughness plus super polite were this brother and sister. I just imagine this young cowboy in John Wayne’s, “The Cowboys “.
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05/14/2026

ICONIC One of the iconic markers of the Great American Horse Drive is early on the ride when they all cross the Little Snake River over this bridge.
Goodness, this drought is real. The Yampa is dangerously low. Enjoy
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05/13/2026

DERBY DAY (Sombrero style).
The Great American Horse Drive is always the same day as the Kentucky Derby. The field was about as crowded the the race, fierce. Always a great time
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05/06/2026

PEACE IN THE MORNING
Always learning. Spent last week with horses,horses and more horses. I am often told that I have an eye for western photography however this week I came to an understanding about art that I have really never fully comprehended before. My dear friend and art hero is Robert “Shoofly” Shufelt. His drawings are not only incredible works because of his talent but It is about his embedded knowledge of his subject matter. He told me once that if you want to draw the foot of a horse you need to actually pick up that horse’s foot, feel it and study it from all sides. I never forgot that but had never applied it to my own journey.
Ranch life for nearly half my years was all I knew, so it is natural to, when viewing a ranch scene that it would take me back to a place I had been before and a memory I had lived.
Recently I am trying to learn landscape photography and struggle to be able to look at a scene and compose it correctly. Now I understand that I am trying to create a technically correct image as opposed to western that is a lifetime of experiences embedded in my heart.
None of this to say that many beautiful pieces are created by newly learned skills and appreciation for a subject. I just know now that there is something different when photographing something you have lived.
I still am going to pursue learning new areas of photography but guessing my soul will always gravitate to scenes just like this.
Shoofly’s last book is callled Drawing from Experience. I think I finally get it .
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