Bulldogging
by Kae Cheatham
Title
Bulldogging
Artist
Kae Cheatham
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art - Photo Painting
Description
The subject is from my Rodeo Photographer days, taken in 1995 with film camera Nikon 6006. Scanned, etc. in 2009, I finally found a way to give it some character with the OOF and digital painting I placed behind it.
Steer wrestling developed on a ranch, but quickly became a crowd pleaser at wild west shows. The event is attributed to Texas-born, hard-working ranch cowboy Bill Pickett. While working steers one day, he lost his dally on the rope, but kept pursuing the steer. When his horse was close enough, he leaped from the saddle onto the steer and bit the critter in the nose (much as a bulldog does) and then wrestled the animal to the ground. Hence the names bulldogging and steer wrestling.
Nose biting is not required in modern-day steer wrestling; the rest is pretty much the same, with the cowboy jumping from his moving horse onto the back of a hard-running steer. He must grasp the horns and pull the steer over on the turf so that all four feet are out to the side. The timer doesn't stop until this happens.
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This image is copyrighted to Kae C’s Images (Kae Cheatham). Not in public domain.
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January 25th, 2014
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Comments (10)
Darin Williams
Great capture, subject and technique (I think it is called something like "out of frame"?)! l/f
Kae Cheatham replied:
Thanks for the comment, Darin. Yes, this is my one and only attempt at out of frame. :)
JOHN TELFER
Kae, Fantastic image love the photo and the action coming out of the frame, great details and a wonderful blurred background showing all of the clarity in the foreground, G+/T/like and fav
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