I don’t plan my summers around rodeos, but I always seem to find myself in the right place at the right time a few times each season. Late June into July is known as “Cowboy Christmas” because of the plethora of rodeos taking place across the West. Every weekend, there’s a rodeo somewhere. This past weekend I happened to roll through southern Colorado right on time for the Alamosa Round Up on Friday night. I wasn’t sure how the photos would turn out under the low lights, but there’s a reason rodeos are one of my favorite photographic subjects: those magnificent cowboys, bulls & broncs never let me down!
Check out last summer’s rodeo posts from Eureka, Nevada and Quesnel, British Columbia. My essay on the Wild Ones appeared recently in the April/ May issue of Ranch & Reata Magazine.
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Very cool, I love the motion effect you have created. So many people would have just taken a clear shot but these photographs have so much more movement and life in them!
Thanks! Yeah going through all the shots made me dizzy!
Hi Mary, I would love to go to one of these Rodeo’s Great photo’s ! Many thanks.
Great work!
Very cool pictures. Glad to hear that you were in Alamosa and not near the wildfires in SW Colorado. Pray for rain, the firefighters need a break.
Wow!
Oh, thank goodness those were motion pictures, I thought my eyes were going bad:)
Stay safe.
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