SAVEUR contributing photographer Penny De Los Santos traveled to California's Central Valley along with contributing editor Georgia Freedman to photograph Rancho San Julián for Georgia's article, California Eternal for our December 2012 issue. With the photographs in this gallery, Penny describes her process for capturing the life and food of the Poett family on the ranch. While on assignment, Penny's philosophy is to "try to let people live their lives, and I make sure I'm there to capture it." For more on shooting this story, read Penny's behind the scenes account »
I wasn't on a horse while shooting, but I would have loved to be. It made more sense for me to be on foot so I could run around everyone and get my shots from all angles. We were up at the crack of dawn for this herd and worked until the light went down. The whole time, I was looking for interesting body language. Cowboys on the open prairie in this beautiful landscape — it was visual poetry. I wanted my photographs to reflect this moody, sultry ideal that we have about the great American west, the silent cowboy, the fertile land. I tried to expose this shot with that mood in my mind.
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