Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

I love hiking in Arizona's Superstition Mountains while photographing the unique desert and mountainous scenes, but age and global warming are taking their toll. So, during these winter months, I'm working with a couple groups of gunfighter re-enactors. I've been doing this for a few years now and it's been a blast (pun intended).

The Superstition Mountain Regulators perform four shows on Saturdays at the Superstition Mountain Museum while the Mojave Muleskinners perform four shows on Saturdays and Sundays at the Goldfield Ghost Town. While the cellphone wielding visitors line the streets, I arrive early enough to secure my prime location and try to capture the early stages of the gunfight, cause within a few seconds, there's enough gunsmoke to obliterate the scene and action.

For my legal protection, I get the performers to sign a model release and in exchange I present them with a good quality photo of them in action. Occasionally I'll get a single performer to go through a series of posed actions and select a shot to work on. The photos are edited in Affinity Photo 2, my camera is the Canon EOS M6, mll with an EF 24-105 IS tele.

This photo is of Rowdy, a new gunfighter with the Regulators who posed for my camera and this is going to be his gift for a signed model release. Your thoughts and comments are welcome.

Jack Olson

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tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

Nice shots and it sounds like a lot of fun. I guess you never came across the lost dutchmen's treasure during your adventures in the mountains?

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Thanks tradio. There's still a lot of active Dutch Hunters around, the search is still claiming the lives of the unlucky and no one's found it yet.

Jack

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Awesome shot, and Rowdy should appreciate this gesture big time

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Thanks joecichir, it's always fun to see their reaction when they open the envelope.

Jack

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

That's really nice! Would love to see more.

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Thanks Fstop12, I might post more from time to time.

Jack

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

A great Movie-Poster, this one by Mr. "Wilderness Images" could be no finer.

Posters were a fad in the 60s-80s but had a long history; til this post I never thought about it. In looking it up I found interesting reading:
https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2022-02-10/film/the-rise-and-fall-of-movie-posters/

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Please do

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Thanks dpullum, glad you like it, and thanks for the link, I might get some new ideas from another time zone.

Jack

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I like it a lot, Jack--nice work!

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Thanks for the back story. Nicely done,

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Thanks jaymatt

Jack

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Thanks for viewing NJFrank, gotta have a background story.

Jack

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Very nicely done