Oklahoma Today Archives - Page 2 of 4 - James Pratt

Buffington Hotel – Westville, Oklahoma

June 2, 2015 by James Pratt

Bill and Susan Dragoo and I had just started on our trip to drive the Trans-America Trail for our story in Oklahoma Today Magazine when we ran across the Buffington Hotel in Westville, Oklahoma. Not exactly the Ritz Carlton, although back in the early 1900’s the Buffington was quite a swank hotel for eastern Oklahoma […]

Gerald and Erika Halverstreng – From Germany to Oklahoma

May 24, 2015 by James Pratt

Last year I photographed a short story in Oklahoma Today about Gerald and Erika Halverstreng, written by Sheila Bright. They are a friendly couple from Germany who, after attending horse shows in Oklahoma for many years, decided to move here from their native land and start ranching, raising horses, and hosting other European visitors to […]

Choctaw Indian Stickball

May 21, 2015 by James Pratt

In 2014 I was assigned to do a portrait of Choctaw Indian stickball players in Durant, Oklahoma. When I got there for the portrait I found out the field they usually play on had been plowed that previous week, getting it ready for the upcoming stickball season. Hence we were limited on where we could […]

NAPA story portrait in Stonewall

May 20, 2015 by James Pratt

Nathan Gunter and I were traveling across Oklahoma on our story about Highway 3 when we drove through Stonewall, Oklahoma. Not much left in Stonewall. It seems to have been bypassed when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation rebuilt Highway 3 about 1/4 mile out of town. We were on the old part of Highway 3. […]

Environmental Portrait – Redneck of the Year

May 19, 2015 by James Pratt

One of my favorite things about editorial photography is getting to meet interesting people. I do a lot of travel stories and invariably I am pulling over my vehicle – usually a motorcycle but sometimes our Jeep or FJ Cruiser, and pulling in to talk to folks. Just ordinary folks. I will be driving down […]

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 […]

Oklahoma Living Magazine Cover August 2017 – College Mascots

I photographed five college mascots in late June for a story about student mascots for Oklahoma Living Magazine. It was HOT that day – nearly 100 degrees by the time we got everyone onto the UCO football field in Edmond. I got everything set up and tested before the mascots arrived so that I could […]

Oklahoma Living Magazine May 2017 Cover – Guardians of the Grid

I love photographing electrical lineman. They are hardy outdoors types who work hard and a tough, demanding and potentially dangerous job. These guys and gals are calm as cucumbers when dealing with tens of thousands of volts, driving rainstorms, sleet, ice and snow. But put them in a room with photographic strobes, a white background, […]