By E. Dan Klepper
Photographer and freelance author E. Dan Klepper spent seven years, on and off, residing and dealing at Fresno Ranch. through 2008, whilst the 7,000-acre estate was once bought via the Texas Parks and flora and fauna division to turn into a part of sizeable Bend Ranch country Park, the adobe studio living and its linked buildings have been sitting vacant for nearly ten years—many rugged miles from the closest electrical energy line or municipal water system.
among 2006 and 2013, Klepper assisted his pal Rodrigo Trevizo, park ranger and caretaker for the valuables, with a few of the chores required to maintain the ranch in working situation. the 2 excavated and repaired the first water community, cared for the farm animals, cleared brush, and maintained a small, solar-powered electric method. Days of 110-degree warmth, boiling water for laundry and cooking, and holding a cautious eye out for rattlesnakes alternated with evenings spent within the flicker of kerosene lanterns, hearing the rasping of the ravens as they scoured the canyon within the amassing dark.
In bright photographs and well-considered prose, Klepper displays on his stories at Fresno Ranch, “witnessing the unfolding of a flora and fauna unfettered by means of the overwhelming human footprint that has ruled such a lot of of our ultimate wild places.” For aficionados of good paintings images, cultural and common background lovers, and fanatics of the massive Bend quarter and its austere good looks, Why the Raven Calls the Canyon deals a provocative visible magazine of off-the-grid residing that celebrates the original panorama of the massive Bend.
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