{"id":175,"date":"2005-01-25T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:54:54","slug":"january_25_2005_arcadia_florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"January 25, 2005 Arcadia, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 25, 2005
\nPeace River Campground
\nArcadia, Florida<\/p>\n

Been quite a few days here in Cattle country. Didn\u2019t know that cattle is Florida\u2019s largest export. Not beef but cattle, seems they birth them here and then ship out the young calves to places like Wyoming and Colorado to fatten then up and killem. So that beef on your plate was most likely born in Florida.
\nSpent some time on the Blue Head Ranch with the cowboys and Mr. Wayne Collier, the Ranch Manager and quite a cowboy himself. It\u2019s a big spread something like 72,000 acres. Photographed Mr. Collier along with some of his top ranch hands. Was quite amazing being out on prairies that look akin to New Mexico or Colorado but with Palm trees among the scrub oaks. The first morning we met at sunup and photographed as they turned one herd out into the Rye pasture. As we were working with the cowboys Mr. Henry Darrell Grace, one of the guys who keeps all the machines worken on the ranch drove up and I got to make his photograph as well..
\nAlso photographed Mr. George P. Pratt who when he isn\u2019t working out on the range as a cowboy runs Equine Transportation out of Altamont NY and Arcadia Florida.
\nIf you need your horses moved I recommend him highly. A very enjoyable human being.
\nOne might ask how we met these cowboys. My friend Victor Milt the famous TV commercial director from the old New York City days found out I was up in Arcadia, which happens to be the town his wife Kim Milt grew up in, so he called me and told me about all the great people here. Then he got excited and called me back saying he was going to drive up to visit, so we had some time together as well. Seems he has been working on a documentary about the cowboy life up in these parts. My good friend Michael Kravit\u2019s has been working with Victor on the project shooting stills so I had already seem some great images of the folks and was truly excited to be able to spend time here.
\nDuring our time here Victor also introduced us to Mr. Fletcher Brown a true country lawyer and gentleman as well as Ms Alice Williams a sweetheart of a women!
\nMade wonderful photographs of both of them.<\/p>\n

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\nPeace River Camp early morning<\/p>\n

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\nSunrise Fire<\/p>\n

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\nEarly morning at the barn<\/p>\n

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\nSunrise at the barn<\/p>\n

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\nMr. Victor Milt and Mr. Fletcher Brown<\/p>\n

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\nMr. George Pratt<\/p>\n

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\nMr. Victor Milt and Ms. Alice Williams<\/p>\n

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\nMr. Victor MIlt shooting a top om truck<\/p>\n

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\nMr. Victor Milt removing hisself from my truck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 25, 2005 Peace River Campground Arcadia, Florida Been quite a few days here in Cattle country. Didn\u2019t know that cattle is Florida\u2019s largest export. Not beef but cattle, seems they birth them here and then ship out the young calves to places like Wyoming and Colorado to fatten then up and killem. So that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}