PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM WATSON

Although Jim Watson will quickly deny his virtuosity as a photographer, his affection for the beauty of the Brazos River Canyonlands and dedication to sharing its experience easily overcome his reticence with a camera. His photography offers a personal look at the extraordinary diversity of wildlife in the Brazos River Canyonlands, helping visitors to brazosrivercanyonlands.com better understand Jim's love for this land.

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS

• ⋅ Rafter of wild turkeys in retreat
• ⋅ Exotic-looking mud nests of Barn Swallows, found along the underside of a highway bridge along the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ A barbed-wire fence, an iconic fixture of west Texas, shown with a silhouetted Double Mountain in the background
• ⋅ Young Mule deer gazes back from a clearing on the rim of Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Mule doe gazing from camouflage of tall grasses and cacti in Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Late afternoon sunlight creates an amber and bronze field of grasses and meadow vegetation
• ⋅ Healthy young buck stands tall in front of evergreen Juniper and behind a thick swathe of grasses
• ⋅ Young Mule buck standing silhouetted amid high grass stalks
• ⋅ Rafter of wild turkeys congregate along the edge of an open field
• ⋅ A mature male with its identifiying Iridescent bronze and green wings lead a rafter of younger wild turkeys through an open meadow
• ⋅ Distinctive pinkish-red wattles become unmistakable as wild turkeys extend their necks to survey a canyonlands landscape
• ⋅ Dramatic hues color an iconic sunset viewed from Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ With Double Mountain in the distant background, mature Mule deer graze on tufts of winter grass on a watershed in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Passel of wild hogs in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Wild hogs rummage around for food in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Passel of wild hogs root about in a pasture in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Curious Mule doe silhouetted by the afternoon sunlight in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Sharp-eyed Mule deer in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Wide-racked Whitetail buck gallops for cover in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Grazing Whitetails at dusk
• ⋅ Boone-and-Crockett Whitetail buck grazing with Mule deer buck and doe in late afternoon
• ⋅ Large eight-point Boone-and-Crockett candidate grazes along side a large Muley in open meadow
• ⋅ Mule deer foraging during a winter snowfall in Impossible Canyon