The Stonehenge Rodeo

This was such an incredible experience. I went out to the Outback in 2021 to really just heal.

In May of 2020, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Graves Disease. It affected almost every part of my body. I felt palpitations when I lay down at night, I was insomniatic, hot, fatigued, hungry and all of the other things that come with having an overactive metabolism. Before going out to the outback, I was beginning to have a very bad relationship with food, exercise and my body. I believe the outback saved me and was the first step in healing my relationship with my body.

I went to my first proper outback rodeo at Stonehenge and I absolutely loved it.

Capturing a rodeo is challenging because I shoot on manual mode which means I’m constantly changing my settings which gets wild when you’re trying to capture a moving animal in a thousandth of a second (or so). These photos feel full of serenity, joy and flow to me.