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Tim's third feature for Ranch & Reata, "The Journal of the American West," is available in Volume 1.5, December-January. "Doctoring Cowboys" tells the story of nurse practitioner and horsewoman Marcia Hefker, whose life experience makes her uniquely suited for tending to the healthcare needs of the ranching communities in northeastern New Mexico. Enjoy this companion piece to Tim's "Arabian Wind" feature on the Hindi Arabian horses in the August 2012 issue of Western Horseman.
Three years after starting with The Chronicle-News, Tim is back to contributing features and photography after a hiatus of several months. In riding the recession and the upheavals in the print news industry, the paper's Louisiana owner had decided to cease the Colorado paper's coverage of Raton and northeastern New Mexico. Eventually, though, the paper needed more original content, and the owner saw how closely linked are the communities of southeastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico. Besides, he said, he missed seeing Tim's work in the paper. Tim is pleased to be back!
Ranch & Reata, "The Journal of the American West," has resissued Tim's popular "Home on the Range" feature, showing how Darien Brown and his family are adjusting to 21st Century changes in the ranching life from their hundred-year-old spread on the Dry Cimarron in New Mexico's far northeastern corner. First published in New Mexico magazine a few months earlier, Ranch & Reata's edition has its own layouts and a couple additional photos as it distributes the feature to a new audience around the West and the world.
Tim's "Arabian Wind" has been published in the September 2011 issue of Western Horseman. The six-page, 2000-word feature includes five of Tim's new photographs, shot during the summer, along with three old photos from the collection of the Hindi Ranch. They've been breeding hardy, ranch-worthy Arabian horses in tiny Duran, New Mexico, since 1950 -- the year Tim was born.
Known for their elegance, endurance, and speed, Arabians are not known as hard-working ranch horses. Editor Ross Hecox feels that the Hindi horses belie that prejudice: he asked Tim to prove it through his article. At the heart of the story is Brahaim Hindi, 93-years-old and still riding and training horses. His son and daughter, Jamil and Anna Hindi, also figure into the story. Raton nurse practitioner Marcia Hefker opens and closes the story: once a skeptic, she now rides three Hindi horses in working cattle, team-roping, and endurance racing.
At the same time, Tim's photography is featured in the August/September issue of Ranch & Reata, now available free online, here. The cover story is titled "Tim Keller: On Telling Stories with a Camera." Tim's photos are elegantly laid out one-to-a-page on the cover and pages 3, 4, 5, and 70-82. You can jump ahead to pages 70-82 simply by clicking on the feature in the Table of Contents. Tim has joined the magazine as a regular contributor, so watch for new work in each of the coming issues. Order a subscription at the magazine's website.
Tim's second Max Evans feature has been published in the June 2011 issue of Western Horseman. "The Horse Who Made Max Evans a Writer" examines Max's life through the horses he's had -- each of whom he remembers fondly as one would his own children.
"The famous novelist remembers the many horses who have inspired his stories, including a bronc named Blackie whose outlaw ways helped Max soar as a writer."
The author of 25 books, including the classics The Rounders and The Hi Lo Country, Max was also showcased in the February 2011 issue of New Mexico Magazine with Tim's feature "Max Evans's New Mexico".
Tim's long-anticipated "Home on the Range" feature has reached readers in the May 2011 issue of New Mexico Magazine.
"When your family's home and business have barely changed in a century, what happens when you see your livelihood dwindling even as you watch your grandkids growing up? The cowboy may be an icon of the American West, but his life is changing in the digital age. To find out how, writer and photographer Tim Keller heads to far northeastern New Mexico to visit with Darien Brown, a fourth-generation cattle rancher."
The Brown Ranch was initially established in 1865. The magazine illustrates Tim's story with a dozen of his photographs, supplemented by three Brown heirloom photos showing each of the 20th century generations of the family. While the May issue is on newstands, the magazine is featuring an expanded Photo Tour of all the photos plus extras that didn't fit. Narrated by Tim, the slideshow will remain on the site through the end of the year. The magazine is available for sale throughout New Mexico and most of the United States, or from the magazine's website.
Tim's feature "One, Will You Make It Two?", a profile of New Mexico auctioneer Walter C. Hall, appears in the March 2011 issue of enchantment, "The Voice of New Mexico's Rural Electric Cooperatives."
Tim had seen Walter work several times and pitched the story idea along with others as prospective follow-ups to Tim's first feature for the magazine. Walter's story was the one the editor jumped at.
Walter was interviewed and photographed at Tim's home in Des Moines, NM. (See Tim's favorite portrait of the session here.)
enchantment arrives in the mailboxes of every New Mexico household that receives its electricity from a rural electric co-op, so it reaches all New Mexicans except those in the state's few cities. For everyone else, enchantment has posted Tim's feature here.
New Mexico Magazine has published its February 2011 "Best Ever Books Issue" with the magazine's first full-length feature from Tim. "Max Evans's New Mexico" includes 10 of Tim's photos, most shot specifically for the magazine, accompanying Tim's six-page article on the beloved author of The Rounders, The Hi Lo Country, and 23 other books.
Art director Fabian West's opening two-page spread is worth the price of admission. A seemingly huge panorama of the entire Taos Valley, including Taos Mountain and the Taos Gorge, the image was taken later the same day as the opening portrait of Max enjoying huevos rancheros (red) at Loyola's in Albuquerque. Max was so insistent that Tim try for that picture that Tim raced north, arriving just in time to catch it as the sun set.
There's also a short piece on Tim, up front on the Storytellers page; he's pictured with his border collie pup Django, photographed by Christina Boyce the day after they brought Django home from the shelter in Las Vegas. The magazine is sold throughout the United States. It's easy to find in New Mexico. Check it out.
Longtime Oregon journalist Ken Bilderback discovered Tim's memoir Ameripass: Aimless in America while publishing his book Wheels on the Bus, now available via Amazon in paperback or for Kindle, or on Ken's own website of fine writing.
Read Ken's touching and generous appreciation of Tim's Ameripass and the resonance it brought from Ken's own long journeys.
Tim's Women of the West feature on Raton's Linda Jackson graces pages 38-39 of the December 2010 issue of Western Horseman.
Linda's a bit of a character, and that character comes through sweetly in Tim's interview. She's spent her life around horses; for the last six years she's run her Jackson Stables, a "horse motel" which gets a lot of business being close to I-25 in the heart of the West.
Tim's next WH story will feature novelist Max Evans (The Rounders, The Hi Lo Country) and the part horses have played in his life, coming in spring 2011.
Tim's feature on Hi Lo Country rancher Tom Pryor appears in the Winter 2011 issue of RANGE, which reached subscribers in mid-November.
Born in the small medical clinic housed in Raton's downtown El Portal Hotel, Tom has lived all of his 63 years in the same ranch house 12 miles northeast of Des Moines, New Mexico.
Titled "Where Else Would I Want to Go?", the profile includes tales of Tom's many millions of miles driving big rigs, and the day his father died when caught out in a blizzard. The feature includes a family heirloom photograph and three new ones by Tim.
Tim's featurette on Raton's historic downtown Victorian inn, Heart's Desire, appears in the November 2010 issue of New Mexico Magazine.
The popular annual "New Mexico in the Movies" issue has lots of great material for film buffs (like Tim), including features on Dennis Hopper and Jeff Bridges, both longtime habitues of New Mexico. (Exactly one year apart in age, Jeff and Tim grew up near each other along southern California's beaches: Tim's aware of this, Jeff is not.)
Tim's featurette on Heart's Desire Inn, a B&B, features three of his photographs. Titled "Rosy Outlook", it takes up page 15 of the magazine and is currently featured at the Lodging tab on the magazine's website as well.
Tim's featurette High-Tailing It Down the Road appears in the October 2010 issue of enchantment, "The Voice of New Mexico's Rural Electric Cooperatives". The monthly magazine is received by every rural household in the state.
Tim's nuestros vecinos column highlights remote northeastern New Mexico's own paramedic and EMS instructor, Jan Pryor, who is a rancher when she's not chasing off to the next emergency.
In November, Jan's husband Tom Pryor will get full-length feature treatment when Tim's story and photographs appear in the Winter 2011 issue of RANGE Magazine.
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!"
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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