As a professional photographer I may have a more unusual backgrounds than most people engaged in this line of work. Having been raised on a moderate sized ranch here in Texas, I grew up as a cowboy, enjoying a life beneath the open sky while working cattle in a beautiful land and engaging in [...]

Living in the big ranch country of the Texas plains region was a wonderful time for my brother and me during the 1950’s and into our early adulthood. Our dad, Pate Meinzer, was the foreman on a moderate sized ranch, 27,000 acres, along the Brazos river in Knox County so from early childhood and [...]

The sun had yet risen over the haze of this south Texas landscape when the handsome whitetail buck decided that the figure of this crouched human was all that he could take. Busting into full flight with head held high I was appalled that he had made my location before the light was adequate [...]

We can only imagine the overwhelming fear and helplessness that was felt by those ancient peoples who lived on the plains of the Americas some 6,0000 years ago when the rains no longer came and great dust storms enveloped the land for almost 1,000 years. It is known as the great drought of late paleo [...]

The summer sun shown warm on the mesquite covered rangeland as I walked around the stock tank in search of anything that might present an acceptable photographic  subject. Stopping at a small mesquite shrub near the waters edge, I noticed a flurry of activity within the limbs and leaves. Robber flies, rather intimidating looking insects, [...]

Every photographer who has engaged in the business on a professional level will, in time, produce an image or images that defines a style that is the signature for that person. Be it color, angles, lens choice, etc. each individual will eventually put forth images that are synonymous with the name. Margaret Bourke White’s coverage [...]