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Aligning a wireless antenna – in a thunderstorm?

January 2, 2020 by James Pratt

My wife and I were driving home from a vacation in Louisiana over the holidays and as we passed through Paris, Texas I was reminded of the time I flew my Cessna T310R airplane from OKC to Paris in horrible weather, landed at the local airport around midnight, and climbed atop the Paris Regional Medical […]

Explosion-Proof Routers?

January 2, 2020 by James Pratt

Part of my job at SageNet is to target the oil industry for wide-area network connectivity. I have done a LOT of WAN design, installation, and troubleshooting over the years. But until recently I had never heard of the need for explosion-proof routers. Like most businesses, technology has changed the oil industry dramatically. And the […]

Devon Energy Hackathon

November 20, 2019 by James Pratt

Devon Energy hosted its third annual “Halloween Hackathon” on October 28-30, 2019. Programming teams from a variety of industries and companies met at the Devon Tower in downtown Oklahoma City to tackle some of the challenges facing today’s energy companies. The event was open not only to Devon employees but to teams from other energy […]

SageNet in rural Oklahoma

November 11, 2019 by James Pratt

My wife Kay and I went on a road trip to southeast Oklahoma this weekend to enjoy the beautiful fall foliage along the Talimena Drive. Like most of our trips, we prefer to take the backroads rather than the highways when we can. Because of time constraints, we kept mainly to paved roads this trip, […]

Find the Good in People and Tell It

November 1, 2019 by James Pratt

Several years ago I began writing for a company in Tennessee that was founded by world-renowned writer Alex Haley, author of “Roots”, “The Autobiography of Malcom X”, and “Queen”. At the time I didn’t know he was related to the company. I just liked the fact that I was regularly assigned interesting stories about cool […]

Oklahoma Living Magazine September 2019 Cover

I had fun photographing this cover story for Oklahoma Living Magazine, one of my favorite clients. I took this picture at the beautiful Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma on a really hot summer day. I had to be careful to keep my models from sweating. It was toasty hot, about 98 degrees outside. […]

Goodnight Farms in Chattanooga Oklahoma

In 2017 I photographed a story about Cody Goodnight, co-owner of Goodnight Farms southwest Oklahoma. The assignment was for Top Producer Magazine, a regular client I work for in the agriculture industry. I photographed Cody and his father, fiancé and employees on their farm in early spring as they were getting ready for the wheat […]

Volunteer Firefighters for Oklahoma Living

I always love photographing real people doing real things. What could be more fun than photographing volunteer firemen? I got that opportunity recently for Oklahoma Living Magazine. My assignment was to photograph firemen from the Coyle and Woodcrest fire departments in Oklahoma. I had the idea to do a split-shot photo that showed both the […]

Rising from the Ashes – for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

During the summer 2017 I took a trip to western Kansas for a long-time client and photographed a couple of stories in the area. For one story I stopped in Clark County and photographed the Ashland Veterinarian Clinic for a story about how the clinic helped local farmers during and after a huge spring prairie […]

Oklahoma Living January 2018 Cover

I traveled to Tulsa to photograph KOTV’s Leanne Taylor for Oklahoma Living’s “Best of Oklahoma” story for the January 2018 edition of the magazine. It was early December and I had to be there at 7 am to scout for a location. We ended up photographing Leanne after her 9 am television show inside the […]

Shawnee Mills for Oklahoma Living Magazine

Had a fun time photographing this story about Shawnee Mills in where else? Shawnee, Oklahoma. I love shooting photos of industrial-type settings and people at work. I worked with one of my favorite writers Hayley Leatherwood on this project. Because of the dust from the flour mill, I had to mount two cameras with lenses […]

Cause for Conservation story for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

I traveled to Garden City, Kansas over the summer to photograph a story about water conservation efforts in the Ogallala Aquifer that covers western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. This huge aquifer is slowly being used up by the massive irrigation efforts by farmers in these western states, trying to feed the growing populations of the […]

Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine

I love doing portrait photography and had the opportunity to photograph Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine cover story. Virginia lives in Luther, not far from my home in Edmond, and was a long-time employee – 41 years – at Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives – parent to Oklahoma Living Magazine. Her father Carl Booher […]

Texas Horned Lizard in Oklahoma Today Magazine

“Would you like to photograph a story about the Horny Toad at Tinker Air Force Base?” I got that question after answering the phone call from Megan Rossman, photo editor at Oklahoma Today Magazine. “Heck yea!” Didn’t take me long to answer that question. I had originally told Nathan Gunter, editor at Oklahoma Today, about […]

Horn Canna Farm for Oklahoma Agriculture Magazine

I just love photographing Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. I was hired to photograph the Horn Canna Farm in southwest Oklahoma last year, for publication in the 2017 Oklahoma Agriculture Magazine produced by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture. I met them at daybreak in late September 2016 and set up for photos before sunrise. They had […]