Cowboy Culture Photography

American West - Cowboy Culture Photographs

What a humbling gift it is being able to spend time on working cattle ranches. This photography series documenting cowboys in the American West has been going on for a number of years now, and I hope it never ends. There is no amount of gratitude I could express to the cowboys and cowgirls for allowing me to be along for the ride. Most of them would never call it work, but still, what they do isn’t just a vital key to supplying the country with beef, it’s an undeniably important piece of American culture. One that most people will never understand because they aren’t able to see it with their own eyes.

This set of images is from a few visits to Diamond A Ranch outside of Seligman, Arizona. At 750,000 acres, it’s the largest in the southwest. A piece of property that will make you feel small in a hurry. Getting to know this ranch and the people who work it has been a lot of fun over the years, and I’m proud to call a few of the people in these photographs my friends. Stay tuned for more from this shoot. Some of the images will soon be published in a Western magazine.

Fine art prints are available from my cowboy series HERE. Reach out directly if you’d like a print not already listed or to discuss custom framing options. Editorial and commercial licensing is also available.

Photograph print of two cowboys riding their horses along the rim of the Grand Canyon at sunrise in Arizona

Photograph of two cowboys riding horses at sunrise with a beautiful western scene behind them

Photograph of two cowboys roping a wild steer into a trailer on a cattle ranch in Arizona

Black and white photograph of two cowboys roping a wild steer

Black and white photograph of cowboys riding horses out into open range

Cowboys riding into open range on an Arizona cattle ranch

Photograph of a cowboy kid on a cattle ranch

Photograph of.a cowboy kid with blood covered hands

Authentic photograph of cowboys eating dinner in a bunkhouse on a cattle ranch in the American West

Photograph of cowboys eating dinner in a bunkhouse

Photograph of wood cattle corrals in a Western landscape

Old wood cattle corrals on the Diamond A Ranch

Photograph of a cowboy catching horses in the traditional manner on a cattle ranch in Arizona

A cowboy catching horses in late afternoon light

Photograph of a cowboy saddling a horse early in the morning when the moon is still up

Photograph of a cowboy saddling his horse early in the morning on an Arizona cattle ranch

Black and white photograph of a cowboy walking out of an old wood building

Black and white photograph of.a cowboy coming out of an old wood saddle house

Photograph of two cowboys riding horses through steep rocky country on a cattle ranch in Arizona

Photograph of two cowboy riding their horses through tough terrain in Arizona

Authentic photography print of two cowboys in a bunkhouse

Black and White photograph of two cowboys in a bunkhouse

Photograph of the sign for Rose Well on a gate at the Diamond A Ranch in Seligman, Arizona

Sign for the Rose Well camp on the Diamond A Ranch - Center of the Universe

Black and white photograph of cowboys fixing a broken gate

Cowboys repairing a broken gate on a cattle ranch

Photograph of the custom gate at a cattle ranch in Arizona

Pica Camp - Diamond A Ranch, Arizona