HUNTING

I didn`t grow up hunting. I grew up in the city. I had a couple experiences hunting as a kid like going with adult family members. My Dad made a run at bowhunting back in the day when the treestand was a new concept and the compound bow was yet to be invented. I think given the time commitment involved and our limited accessibility to hunting ground made it more prudent for us to remain involved in an indoor archery league as opposed to bowhunting whitetails. At any rate, my hunting career exploded once I got to Springfield Missouri in 1986. I really came here initially for the photography. My previous job required  me to spend lots of time on the road in rural farm areas traveling for months at a time. There wasn`t much else to do in the evenings so I started fishing farm ponds and such and that eventually led to wanting to work in the fishing and hunting industry. In this part of the country literally no one that I know who fishes ONLY fishes. They also hunt.

Creekside Stockyard

As I mentioned in the copy on a previous page, when I retired a couple years back I took a break from carrying a camera every day.  I did that for 48 years and was ready for a break. I thought I had a pretty good idea where I was going and the path forward to get there. New doors opened. Some I went thru and looked around and made a decision whether I wanted to stick around or just pass. At some point I started to remember all of the mornings I spent on the road in over 30 years driving back and forth to work in amazing light and not being able to stop and shoot what I wanted instead of what someone else was directing me to shoot.

It occurred to me that I could now shoot whatever I wanted to at any time. So, for the past year and a half or so I`ve been documenting life on the farm. This has resulted in a rather substantial library of farm and ranch lifestyle photography. On the second week of March 2023 I launched a new website on Photoshelter.com which will be the home of Creekside Stockyard. It is the beginning of my rights managed stock photography service featuring farm and ranch photography. Initially it will be heavily weighted towards local agriculture related subject matter and as time permits expand into other geographic areas.

Of the 100 or so images contained in each gallery at the new site, the examples shown are representative of thousands of shots supplementing all the gallery images. As mentioned elsewhere on the site, nearly all images have numerous variants available should you need, as an example, more space on the right or more space on the left, more sky for copy, a vertical crop, or some other component. If the image you are interested in is close but not quite there, contact me and I can show other versions from the same shoot. Use this link below to access the new website or contact me thru these additional links.

Stock Photo Licensing: CreeksideStockyard.photoshelter.com
Portfolio Site: ChrisAShort.com
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Email: ChrisAShortPhotography@hotmail.com