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Mustangs | The Shrinking West

Americans have a love affair with horses—especially the wild horse. Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, limitless possibilities, and the vanishing West.

Random Journal Excerpt From a Remote Location

now we will take your guide away… no?

now we will take your guide away… no?

the lieutenant has halting English and at one point says “And now I will take your guide away. No?”  The only thing that saved us was that his walkie talkie didn’t work and he couldn’t get reinforcements…. embarrassed he tells us to get out of town immediately…he doesn’t want anyone to know that someone slipped into his area…I have a multiple entry visa to Georgia, and an invitation letter from the Georgian Academy of Sciences, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

Video courtesy Xposure International Photography Festival www.xposure.ae

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Bob Gilka, Legendary editor dies at 96

Photo by J. Bruce Baumann This is from the NPPA blog: ARLINGTON, VA (June 25, 2013) – Robert E. Gilka, a newspaper photographer and editor who was a mentor to legions of photographers and who was the director of photography for National Geographic Magazine for more...

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About
Olson & Farlow

Melissa Farlow and Randy Olson are photojournalists in the documentary tradition. Even though they are published in LIFE, GEO, Smithsonian and other magazines, they have primarily photographed for the National Geographic Society on over 50 assignments that have taken them to 50 countries over the past 20 years.