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Image(s) of the Day
These are images that strike my fancy on a particular day, based on my feelings and memories of the image and how they fit in with my life that day. I hope you will enjoy them as well. The page … Continue reading
Posted in Image of the Day, Inspiration
Tagged Arizona, Art, Birds, blessings, Cats, Cattle, children, cowboy, cowboypoetry.com, cowgirl, culture, design, flowers, Gatherings, heart, horse, horseman, horses, Inspiration, ISPMB, La Estancia Alegre, lori faith merritt, Music, Mustangs, native, new mexico, passion, photography, photography contest, poetry, Publications, singer, songwriter, spirit, Western, william merritt
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Cowboys and Indians Magazine and Festival of the West
I have served as the official photographer for The National Festival of the West since 2007 (in 2006, I shared those duties with another photographer). Images from the last several years can be viewed and purchased through my Market Place on the … Continue reading
Posted in Gatherings, Publications, Western, Western Culture
Tagged cowboy, cowgirl, Gatherings, horseman, lori faith merritt, photography, Publications, singer, songwriter, Western
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Rusty McCall: Punchin’ Cows instead of Clocks (An Interview)
I photographed Rusty McCall six months ago at the McCall’s ranch in New Mexico and then a few weeks later at the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, Texas. As Heart Sessions, the photography was donated and I’ve gifted prints (one, a large … Continue reading
Posted in Cowboy Poets, Equus, Heart Sessions
Tagged Cattle, cowboy, cowboypoetry.com, culture, new mexico, photography, poetry, Western
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Way Up High on the Mogollon…
William Merritt singing Glory Trail My husband, William, and I were traveling back from a short vacation in Sedona and decided to take the long way back to Tucson through the Mogollon Rim area north of the towns of Strawberry and … Continue reading
Posted in Cowboy Poets, Western
Tagged cowboypoetry.com, Music, poetry, singer, Western, william merritt
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Art Spur: Heading Out
One of my images, Heading Out, was published on cowboypoetry.com as an Art Spur feature. Art Spur is described on the website as “It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words…we know many that are worthy of … Continue reading
Posted in Cowboy Poets, Inspiration, Publications
Tagged blessings, cowboypoetry.com, horsewoman, Inspiration, photography, spirit, Western, william merritt
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Audrey Hankins: First Light
Audrey Hankins is a woman of leather and lace. Leather saddles, lace kitchen curtains. A cowboy poet who first impressed me with her poem Hollyhocks as I sat in the audience at a cowboy poetry gathering and who … Continue reading
Posted in Cowboy Poets, Music, Western, Western Culture
Tagged blessings, cowgirl, culture, design, horses, Music, photography, poetry, Western
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"Stable" Enlightenment
There is a story in ancient zen wisdom of heading out on the path to find enlightenment. Upon discovering a mountain, first “the mountain is a mountain” then “the mountain is something else” and upon enlightenment you discover that “the mountain is a mountain” … Continue reading
Posted in Equus, Inspiration
Tagged cowgirl, design, horses, Inspiration, photography, spirit, Western
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Cowgirl's Reflection
A few years ago I attended a photography workshop with Jay Dusard, who is an iconic cowboy/western culture photographer, at the (former) Portreros Ranch in Tubac. In the early morning light we had two models in western garb with … Continue reading
Posted in Equus, Inspiration
Tagged Art, cowgirl, horsewoman, Inspiration, photography, Western
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Western Horseman: Sherry Cervi
Sherry Cervi is featured in the May 2009 issue of Western Horseman. The opening page “double-truck” image and one of her sitting by her tack room are my photographs. The images included here are personal favorites. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Equus, Publications, Western Culture
Tagged cowgirl, culture, horse, horses, Publications, Western
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William Merritt at Kearny
This picture is of my husband, William, yet not at the Kearny Gathering. The picture here is him by the Red Rock Crossing stream in Sedona and since he is singing a song he wrote called Where the Water Runs, … Continue reading
Posted in Gatherings, Music
Tagged Gatherings, Music, photography, Western, william merritt
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