Plodding Along

Kind of appropriate title considering it feels like I'm trodding instead of galloping as I continue to upload images in my shopping cart gallery (http://tphotos.smugmug.com) Just click the purple dewy flower at right and you will end up at the online site. I originally titled it Trodding Along, which isn't far off, but Plodding was the better choice of words for describing my progress.



I am putting a few specialty items in my etsy shop, but the main online shop is at the smug site. The difference is that if you order from my smug site, the prints or merchandise is shipped directly to you from the lab. Less waiting time and more options in sizes and finishes. So if you want a huge gallery sized piece, go there. I have more than just western and cowboy images for sale, too.

Postcards coming soon!

This is one of the projects I've been working on.
"Shadow and Light"

Postcards will be the first product available from this. Creating these diptychs and triptychs are more work than I first anticipated. Sometimes I will get a group of photos together and then as I work them on the template, I decide one doesn't work in the group, or the crop size doesn't please me. But this is just a teaser of the many that I've created from my photos I've shot over the past few years at chuckwagon cookouts, cattle drives and other western venues.

"Camp Gear"


"A little soap and powder"

I'd love to hear feedback and if you are interested in my western images and products, I'll add you to my mailing list. You can post anonymously, but I'd really love to hear if you like these.

Western lovers! Help!

I am wanting to create a blog dedicated strictly to my western photography. I do have much of it online on my Web site, but also want a blog to promote it and specials I will be offering.
I have a line of products I have been developing for more than a year now and decided this was a good time to start rolling them out. But, the problem is what to name my blog that is solely for western photographic art purposes.
If you have any ideas, please post a comment here or visit my site: www.tonihopperphotography and send me a comment from the form there. Visit the right hand link on the splash page there and you will be able to see some of my western photographic art.
I am looking forward to hearing from you. This new venture is something that really means a great deal to me.