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| Bareback rider Monty Koopman holds on and spurs a bucking horse during competition on June 30. (Notice how the spur is INSIDE of the horse) |
Canada's largest seven-day pro rodeo has ended.
When I came here from Ontario, I had no idea how rodeo worked let alone the names of the competitions or the names of the rodeo superstars. In weeks leading up to the Ponoka Stampede, I filled my brain with every single piece of information I could learn.
I must say, I felt like a complete foreigner, especially with the fact that we had to wear a cowboy hat and dress Western while shooting and covering rodeo events. Wearing a cowboy hat while driving a 1998 VW Jetta with Ontario plates...definitely turned a few heads with that.
Overall, I would say it was a great experience. Put in a lot of long, hard days, but also had a lot of fun (and made some really cool photos).
Now it's back to the norm of Ponoka and Central Alberta, covering things that people care about.
Adam
