We recently had the enormous pleasure of shooting for a great new client, Andis Company, in Wellington, Florida. They brought us down to the winter hunter-jumper horse capital of the world to build a photo and video library with some master horse groomers who use and endorse their amazing line of clipper products. We hadContinue reading “Shooting Horses in the Sunshine State”
The Dodge Truck SuperBowl ad “God Made a Farmer” was a game-changer on a lot of levels. I read one commentary that said it’s not only a rare fist-pump for the American farmer, it’s something almost everyone in agriculture can support as it allows farmers and ranchers — normally a humble, “don’t blow your ownContinue reading “Game Changer”
We enjoyed the Christmas video so much last year, we decided to do it again! This one has a slightly different (peppermint) twist. Enjoy! And have a very merry Christmas …on the moon!
Recently Shawn and I had an opportunity to work with a great agency partner to produce a custom stock photo library for one of our long-standing animal health clients. The project took us into western Wisconsin to visit some amazing seedstock and cow-calf operations, then into western Kansas to visit some premiere cow-calf and beefContinue reading “Perspectives from “fly-over” country”
Going “home” for us means a 14-hour drive across the prairie and Black Hills, to the upper “breaks” of eastern Wyoming. My wife’s great-grandfather homesteaded a ranch there more than 120 years ago. Her folks moved back nearly 40 years ago to build a life for their kids, and build a registered Angus herd. Teri’sContinue reading “A Visit to the Home Place”
It’s County Fair season in Minnesota. Those of us with 4H kids know it’s a crazy, exciting, exhausting time. It’s when all the work pays off, or not. It’s the excitement of the show, the yearning for that blue (or purple!) ribbon. It’s carnival rides and the time when we indulge in forbidden foods, likeContinue reading “County Fairs & Tractor Shows”
I like watching the tractors and combines roll by. I farm vicariously through these guys who are struggling to piece together enough small acreages between the houses to make a decent living. You see, our house sits on what was once farm land 20 years ago (yes, I confess, I am part of the urbanContinue reading “Loving Sub-Rural Living”
Shawn was out recently (I think he was on a feed run) and paused to shoot some images of this grain elevator at sunrise. It’s a great example of what we call “agritechture” and just a really cool shot. Shawn also came up with idea for the copy. I love the thought of a ruralContinue reading “The Original Skyscraper”
Here’s a fun little Christmas greeting for your viewing pleasure (you weren’t really working now anyway, right?). It’s a heaping helping of farm and ranch life imagery, sprinkled with a few of our own family snapshots. So, from our family to yours, we wish you all the joy this season can bring, and a happyContinue reading “Merry Christmas from the boys at AgriLife Studios”
Farmers are on the harvest home stretch, which is always good cause for celebration. All the beans in Minnesota were in over a week ago, and as of Monday (11/8) almost all of the U.S. soybean crop was reported in (92%). Corn growers were really haulin’ it in last week, and as of Monday, theContinue reading “Harvest Highlights 2011”
The AgriLife Studios Field Journal 