This Western Lifestyle Cowboy image was shot for The Milano Hat Company for it's Larry Mahan Hat division. This image was never planed, I was there to shoot with rodero cowboy legend Larry Mahan for a series of catalog covers, advertising and web use. When the wranglers were setting the shot up this group of horses started to run along the top of the dam. I pulled up the camera, framed the shot & took about 15 photographs in 3 seconds... then they were gone. When I sent this image to the company the president saw it & wanted to use it for the outside of the new box they were about to make.

Gear: Canon professional digital camera, 85mm f1.8 @ f3.2 Canon lens 100 ISO and then processed using Photoshop CS3 and using the Adobe RAW converter.

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