
Butterfly in the garden

Had the opportunity to shoot a few portraits of local blues guitarist Taylor Scott for the paper’s weekly “Plains People” feature. I had a bit of time to scout locations and work the portraits. As a result, the portraits turned out well. Amazing how that happens. Scott, who is an 18-year-old senior at Cheyenne’s Central High School, was pretty cool and easy to work with on the shoot. Being that I’m a huge fan of the blues, it was easy to strike up a conversation with him on the shoot as we talked about Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Eric Clapton among others. If you haven’t heard him, check him out playing with his group, Another Kind of Magick.
I’ve always told people Wyoming is the best place to survive a zombie apocalypse: not very many people, not very many zombies. That wasn’t the case though on Saturday when about a hundred zombies lurched their way through downtown Cheyenne. Okay. So they weren’t real zombies, but still I couldn’t keep myself from making a few “Zombieland” references to some of the participants and fellow members of the local media during the Cheyenne Zombie Fest.