Big Muddy Motion

09/25/2024

This years trip will be one for the memory book! For a place that’s supposed to be nearly a desert, it felt more like a moose hunt with all the rain. But we pushed on as hard as ever and were rewarded with two phenomenal bulls. Feet are torched and back is aching but it was worth every step. Thanks for another great hunt Brett William Wilkerson

Big Muddy Motion
Mathews Archery, Inc.
KUIU
Vortex Optics

08/18/2021

Looking for some video tips check out the podcast today at noon CST.

My special expert guest, Bruce bishop, is a professional videographer and owner of Big Muddy Motion. Today he's going to explain how, even with a modest video budget, you can shoot video that doesn't suck! https://loom.ly/YkopmNE

03/27/2021

When you’re a one man camera crew

03/23/2021

12/28/2020

True hand craftsmanship is a thing of beauty. Also harder and harder to come by. This folio was hand crafted by J.M.Byrd Leatherwork. A true work of art. I’m so impressed by the attention to detail. Thank you Tandi Joy Smith for the perfect gift.

11/25/2020

Creating some camera magic. It’s all about perspective.

11/21/2020

https://www.etsy.com/listing/895160394/framed-horse-canvas-print-framed-in?ref=shop_home_active_1

This print is a beautiful black and white photo of a Quarter Horse mare, taken in Missouri. This horse has lead a long interesting life. Born on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Moved to a pasture in Iowa and has finally come to reside in a pasture with other friends in Missouri. The photo was

11/06/2020

The pasture ornament life seems to be treating Cheyenne well. She could use some exercise though and I have no one to blame but myself.

11/06/2020

It may not look like much to you but theres a lot to see from here and my view from the lens was probably the best. Blaine Bishop

First Lite

11/04/2020

I don't fancy myself as a morning person, however, waking up to this out your front door sure makes it a little easier to poke your head out of the tent.

11/04/2020

I never tire of looking up at a clear night sky away from all of the noise pollution of the east. The mountains are great, the smells are great, the scenery is great but to kick back under the stars in these wild places is truly breathtaking.

11/03/2020

I've been Reflecting on this picture I took this fall in Wyoming. I'm reminded a great deal of what keeps me going in times like these.
In this landscape, practically devoid of water, for a reason I can't even begin to comprehend, a beaver followed upstream, just the tiniest trickle. The landscape around him was cruel and unforgiving. At every turn nature was trying to hold him back but his drive to find something better pushed him onward. Even though everything he encountered had to have been telling him to turn back, he continued on. Then, in a place that looked like nothing, little beauty, little resources, and with no help, he created his own oasis. When everything in the world, that he had seen thus far, had probably told him, “you can’t”, “you shouldn’t”, “you’ll fail”, he created his own paradise. He knew in his beaver brain that if he persisted, he would have something better.
The world is a cruel place and in a lot of ways its not so different for us. While some of us are fortunate to have family and friends to help us on our journeys, at the end of the day for most of us, your successes come down to your own drive, your own will to be better and do better. We will all face adversity at some point and some of us will face more than others but ultimately you control your success and you control your happiness. By pushing on, by striving to be better, we can create our own paradise, our own oasis.
In the end, when we are successful, when we work hard and get to revel in the fruits of our labor, not only do we reap the rewards, others do better as well. I think about all of the other creatures that would have probably died or never existed if this beaver would not have made his journey to this unfriendly place and built a lasting water source. Because of this one creature and his drive for something better, others around him are given the opportunity to do better as well.
Never give up, always keep plowing forward, and always look for what's around the next bend. Be prepared for the opportunities that might not be so obvious.