Western Horseman Magazine

Rob Hammer February 1, 2024

Cowboy Photography - American West Wall Art

Western Horseman Magazine - Diamond A Ranch

The Diamond A Ranch is the largest cattle ranch in the Southwest at 725,000 acres. That’s a hard figure to wrap your brain around, so imagine your daily job is working cattle on that stunning piece of land!? Cowboys are tough people, but you need to be a tougher breed altogether for that lifestyle. Over a few different visits I got to know a number of the people on the Diamond A crew and am honored to call a few of them friends! The owners (Rick and Sarah Kieckhefer) showed me great hospitality as did all of their cowboys/cowgirls. It really is an honor just being aloud on these historic ranches, so I couldn’t be any more proud to to share this story that was recently published in Western Horseman Magazine - a publication that’s been a staple in the cowboy world since 1936! To read the article go pick up a copy of this issue or go to www.westernhorseman.com

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Cowboys on the Diamond A Ranch in Arizona

Photograph of cowboys on the largest cattle ranch in Arizona

Photograph of cowboys riding horses on the rim of the Grand Canyon

Cowboy Culture Photography

Rob Hammer November 27, 2023

American West - Wall Art - Cowboy Culture

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 well over two 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 the 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. The images you see here are from my second visit to the ranch, and I’m proud to call a few of the people in them my friends. Stay tuned for more from this shoot. Some of the images should be published in a magazine soon.

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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

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 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

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

Cowboy Photography - American West

Rob Hammer April 21, 2023

American West - Cowboy Photography - Wall Art

Photographing cowboys in the American West has been so many adjectives. Just scrolling through images to make this blog post gives me even more appreciation for the work, life, and culture of these people. As of this writing I’ve been lucky to photograph on cattle ranches in Nevada, California, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming. Which has been an education in and of itself, seeing all the differences from region to region. Not sure how long thing has been going on no, but the desire to continue only grows with each ranch visited. Certainly my favorite project to date.

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