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Tim's second feature for RANGE Magazine appears in the Fall 2010 issue, which reached newstands and subscriber mailboxes in mid-August.
"A Woman's Work" profiles northern New Mexico cattle rancher Mary Lou Kern. After earning a pair of college degrees and beginning a career as a loan officer with the Farm Credit System, Mary Lou fled the office life just one year into the job. "That was long enough to learn that I didn't want to be a banker," she says.
When her father died in 1987, she went home to Maxwell and took over the family ranch. "Back then, more than now," she recalls, "ranching was predominantly a man's field. But my dad always told me, 'You may not be as strong as a man, but you're smarter. You can use your brains instead of your back.' So, subsequently, I own a lot of equipment!"
When the Fall issue completes it newsstand run, we'll post the feature here at Tim Keller Arts, right around the time the Winter 2011 issue comes out in mid-November with Tim's profile of rancher Tom Pryor.
Tim's sixth feature for Western Horseman appears in the August 2010 issue. At 1800 words, "Rescued Horses, Rescued People" is Tim's longest published work to date. Illustrated with four of Tim's photos, the article tells the story of the Ride To Pride Partnership in Las Vegas, New Mexico, a dynamic and highly successful program that uses rescued horses to provide a new start for hundreds of troubled youth and their families.
The story focuses on a young man, Richard Pacheco Jr., telling how one explosive moment led him to a kind of redemption he hadn't known he'd needed. It's the story of an innovative couple, Lorraine & Greg Esquibel, who created the program on their instincts and evolving experience. Young people, counselors, horsemen, and horses work together to change lives. It's a good story.
 After 18 months of carefully balancing patience with persistence, Tim has finally landed his first article in New Mexico Magazine.
The June 2010 issue includes Tim's featurette on Raton's historic Shuler Theater. Entitled "Shining Through", the profile includes 3 of Tim's photographs.
The May 2010 issue whetted the appetite, using another of Tim's photos to accompany someone else's featurette on Raton.
The magazine has 2 more of Tim's featurettes for upcoming issues, each with Tim's photographs. One profiles Raton's Heart's Desire Inn B&B, while the other provides a travelog of The Hi Lo Country, based on Max Evans' classic 1961 novel.
Ten months after their launch, TimKellerArts & TimKellerPhotography websites reached an average viewership of 100 per day in October, 2009. Six months later, in April 2010, the average number of daily visitors had climbed above 200.
Not surprisingly, New Mexico accounts for more visitors than any other state. Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Texas, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, and Florida fill out the top ten, in that order.
Internationally, the top countries sending visitors are Russia, Japan, Israel, Germany, Denmark, Canada, and France, with most international visitors coming to TimKellerPhotography.
 Tim has a pair of features in the February 2010 issue of Western Horseman.
"The Long Riders" tells the story of four-dozen horsemen on the ride of a lifetime, crossing America from Mexico to Canada on horseback.
"Women of the West: Brittany Rouse" profiles a young woman who trains colts on a Conchas River ranch.
Both stories feature Tim's writing and photography.
Next up in Western Horseman will be Tim's feature in a spring issue on the Ride To Pride program, with a working title of "Rescued Horses, Rescued People."
Tim's coverage of the 2nd Annual Capulin Volcano Run was published by The Chronicle-News while a sequential series of his photographs was published in the official race website. One of the runners posted a few of Tim's photos to a Runner's World online forum, where they elicited raves from runners around the country.
"Growing Up Rodeo", story and photography by Tim Keller, has been published in the October 2009 issue of Western Horseman.
"In the remote cattle country of northeastern New Mexico, a community-based rodeo series fuels young competitors' hopes for the future."
Tim's third article for WH is six pages long. On the Contributors page, editor A.J. Mangum now refers to Tim as a Contributing Writer.
Western Horseman, August 2009, page 14
"Tim...the Archie West story has gone over very well. Months after the fact and we still hear about it."
-- A.J. Mangum, editor, Western Horseman magazine
Western Horseman, July 2009, page 14 (click to enlarge)
The Winter 2010 issue of RANGE Magazine will hit newstands and mailboxes in November with Tim's photographs and story "Harvey Shannon: The Cattle Business is Gambling at Its Best".
A colorful and sometimes humorous quarterly, RANGE covers "The Cowboy Spirit on America's Outback", pretty much a perfect description of where Tim lives.
Watch for more of Tim's articles and photographs in RANGE and other magazines in the future: Tim is devoting the summer to a wide range of new stories with a goal of reaching a wider variety of magazines.
The May 2009 issue of Western Horseman has reached newstands with Tim's article on Archie West, "Last Stockman on the Turquoise Trail."
Subtitled "The International Magazine of Stock-Horse Culture", Western Horseman has been "The World's Leading Horse Magazine Since 1936."
The day the magazine arrived, WH editors called to further discuss Tim's planned summer project. Meantime, a new article just written and photographed was mailed off to WH the same week.
And there's more: check News on TimKellerPhotography.com for details of Tim's May photography exhibition at the A.R. Mitchell Memorial Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado.
Western Horseman magazine plans to publish at least two more of Tim's articles this year.
Senior Editor Ross Hecox ordered up Tim's feature on Santa Fean Archie West, the last stockman on the Turquoise Trail.
Editor A.J. Mangum sent input for Tim's planned feature on the summer youth rodeo series run by the Sierra Grande Horse Association. Tim's photographs from last year's series piqued the magazine's interest.
Tim has more stories in the works, each accompanied by his own photography, and looks forward with excitement to his increasing presence in America's pre-eminent horseman's magazine.
Tim's first two albums are finally available on compact disc, thanks to Mike and Hunter Schoonover who digitally remastered the albums from virgin cassettes.
"No Stranger to Wishes" was released in 1987 on LPs and cassettes. "Live at Uncle Calvin's" was released as a cassette double album by the famed Dallas coffeehouse in 1989. The Uncle Calvin's album was a limited release of only 500 cassettes, of which only four remain.
Together, these albums contain 29 of Tim's songs, including such favorites as "Across the Borderland," "Come and Go," "Clear Texas Morning," and "Wish Love Goodbye."
The digital remastering sounds great -- but don't take our word for it: check out the long samples of all the songs, with the track listings on the album pages here in TimKellerArts.com. The new CD releases are digitally transferred to disc via computer and do not come with graphics, available here on the website, but they do come with a great price: only $8, and that includes shipping.
In mid-January, Tim began freelancing for The Chronicle-News, which serves southeastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico from Trinidad, Colorado. Serving the region six days a week, The Chronicle approached Tim after publishing a feature on his article in Western Horseman magazine. Tim's articles for The Chronicle will focus on a wide variety of people, subjects, and events in Raton and around the Volcano Triangle communities of Capulin, Folsom, and Des Moines, New Mexico. They'll also be archived here at TimKellerArts.com.
Studio C in Des Moines, New Mexico, has booked Tim for a rare concert performance, solo acoustic, on Saturday evening, July 25, 2009.
 The January issue of Western Horseman has reached subscribers and newstands. Tim's cattle drive photographs and story, "Driving on Blacktop", are featured along with a short bio on the contributors page. WH is the pre-eminent US horse magazine and should be available at any large newstand, such as those at Barnes & Noble or Borders. Studio C has restocked it here in northeastern New Mexico after selling out of the first 24 copies. If you want a copy but can't find it, write and we'll arrange to mail one.
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