Chris A Short Photography Fishing Photographs
FISHING
As I mention on the “Hunting” page, I came to Southwest Missouri for the photography and ended up with an education in fishing and hunting as a bonus. Since my beginnings here in 1986 I have had the opportunity to fish and hunt all over the country in my capacity as a photographer. After working from Alaska to the Caribbean I can honestly say that in this part of my life theres no place I would rather be than at home with family in Southwest Missouri. As I write this the days are getting shorter and the air is cooler. Soon it will be fall again and time to let the air out of something. As far as the fishing goes I think the photography is as much about showing places that people see and WANT to go fish as much as it is showing pictures of fish.
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Chris A Short Photography-Hunting Photographs
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.
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Not Fishing, Not Hunting, Everything Else………..For now
EVERYTHING ELSE
This gallery isn`t by any means less important than or less of an influence on me than the Hunt and Fish photography. It`ll just be a short term catch all for the stuff that didn`t fit neatly into the other galleries. I`m trying to keep this as simple to browse as possible. I can`t do that with thirty different categories of galleries. In the end, I`ve made my living as a photographer in the fishing and hunting industry for over thirty years. I run a camera for a living and I hunt and fish but I also do other things. These are photos of some of those things.
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Chris A Short Photography – Shooting Related Photography
Shooting Gallery
The shooting gallery is just that…….It`s a gallery of shooting related photographs that are not necessarily related to hunting. If you got to this website thru the CreeksideMercantile.com website then you get the connection. If you got here thru a different conduit such as a search engine then you can figure out the connection to the shooting related photos as a side step from the hunting related photographs. If you are appalled by both then this website is not likely for you.
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