"Packing it Home"
This is Clair Ludwig riding Misty, with Leroy carrying the antlers
I spent a week in Wyoming, photographing the real people who live there, work their ranch, and ride. We got snow at the beginning and the end of the week. What you see in this sunset is the storm that brought snow the next morning.
Leroy and Misty are brother and sister, sharing the same father. They live in Shell, Wyoming, just over an hour east of Cody, at the base of the Bighorn Mountains.
This image was taken on February 13th, 2026 at 5:26 p.m. Mountain Time.
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