Ranch Country photography
by Robert McCune

The online free-read printing of my book THE HILLS AROUND US: KOREA 1950-1951 has been completed.  However, I recently discovered in official military history websites that the LST beachhead landing I and my squad made with an aviation construction unit was in mid-July 1950, not in September.  Appropriate changes have been made in the LST LANDING and the YONIL AIRFIELD chapters.  

Managed to get some more stuff into the site before this year has run its course.  But please note, it’ll take a few days for Morse Media to get these new pages in place and on-line.

1. Episode #6 of the Backroads of Ranch Country series.

2.  Have added four chapters to THE HILLS AROUND US book (about my service in Korea during that war). Am getting close to the end of the book. Next month, or maybe February.

About the on-line reading of my Ranch Country book, GUARDIANS OF THE LAND. I recently decided to go ahead and put the rest of the book on-line, all a the same time, instead of adding another chapter one month at a time. The last seven ranches are now available for reading, plus our remote crossing of the Upper Missouri River by way of a two-vehicle ferry powered by a tractor engine and operated by a woman, a retired school teacher. I think you’ll enjoy “meeting” these ranch people as much as you did on the other ranches. And wait’ll you see the Dugout Ranch photos!

Well for Pete’s sake; I accidently deleted the information that tells how to order THE HILLS AROUND US book, and how to read it on-line. Am working on getting that info back in. (Two or three days ago, it was the Backroads episodes!)

Scott Ralston of Morse Media quickly put Backroads of Ranch Country back into the Home page (after I accidently deleted the entire category). Also, Episode #5 has now been added.

And I’ve greatly reduced the photo prices. This prolonged steep drop in the economy has put a heck-of-a restraint on the sales of art work, particularly photos.  If you've had a particular interest in any of my photos, you should take another look at these new prices.  Later today, I'll also do some editing re tech info in the photo pages; less reading to do.

Some of you return visitors to my website will have noticed just recently, that the category Backroads of Ranch Country is no longer in the Menu shown on the website's Home Page.  The reason?  A day or two ago, while correcting some errors in the existing Episodes, and attempting to add Episode #5, I overreached my ability in working on a website, and accidently removed the entire Backroads category.

Maggie and I just got back from three weeks, from another trip ”out there” on the Backroads of Ranch Country. No new photos for the gallery this time though; getting real hard to find art quality shoots of barns and windmills and such that are that much different than those already in my gallery.

Am working on Episode #5. Post it next month? We were in northeast California and northwest Nevada. Also in October. And an early snow caused us to have to go from Plan A to Plan B, and then to Plan C!

About those four or five new images I mentioned in the previous Blog, am having trouble formatting(?) them into the gallery. But I’m close. (I think).

Also, in my continuing wish to offer Ranch Country Photos of true Art Gallery quality, I recently deleted 20 or so images that (after more careful study) don’t qualify. Oh, they were good, but not good enough to “hang” in an art gallery.

And for you regular visitors, you’ll notice that with the exception of the largest size available, prices are now lower.

My apologies to all you regular visitors to our website, for not having anything new in the way of gallery photos or maybe another backroad episode. Maggie and I were away two weeks, doing some window work on the Tokeland Hotel, on a very remote section of the south coast of Washington-state. A circa 1865 National Landmark farm house that has been expanded in size, and is now an inn that can accommodate as many as 40 people. Great meals, with an excellent fresh seafood dinner menu.

An up-date about my association with VisionLight Photographic Art @ www.visionlightgallery.com. My name has been moved.  In that site, click on Photo Artists, then drop down and click on Photo Artists Gallery Directory. You'll now find my name listed #10 in the 3rd column.