We were departing Norfolk for a training detachment in Fallon, Nev.

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Leaving home a day early for a detachment was already a rough start to what would become an eventful day. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAmarillo By Morning Little did we know, we'd be downloading the song later in the day. I am sure they made it to Amarillo by morning.The whole image smells of old Texas and that was the goal. 'Amarillo by Morning' is a famous song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser. (C) 1987 MCA Nashville, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. I think it works and I have always wanted to have a picture with this title. George Strait - Amarillo By Morning Music video by George Strait performing Amarillo By Morning.

I wrestled with this the night before the shot and finally it dawned on me what to do. To have the foreground subject out of focus is a tension point in any photograph and to have the human characters out of focus would seem fairly suboptimal. One or other would be in focus, but never both.

This is simply because the horses’ heads will be at least 10 feet in front of the people driving the wagon. For a storyteller of life on the final frontier, props don’t get any better, but finding an authentic one and taking it to the pre-researched location in the wilderness of West Texas is a challenge and an expense.Īnyhow, those issues overcome, the biggest problem with photographing a wagon on the move is that it does not suit my style of photography which would tend to be to shoot towards the oncoming wagon. No mode of transport is more emblematic of the great push West and the attendant dangers. Wagons evoke childhood memories of watching John Wayne Westerns on the BBC on cold winter evenings.

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