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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
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Photographer
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moments
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo/LindseyWyllie.com — “The Competitor News”
Contributed photo/LindseyWyllie.com — “The Competitor News”
This photo taken by John Day resident Lindsey
Wyllie of steer wrestler competing at the Spray
Rodeo was featured on the June 8, 2015, issue of
“The Competitor News” magazine. Wyllie won Cover
Photo of the Year from the magazine for the image.
He was also named the magazine’s Photographer of
the Year for the fifth consecutive year.
Wyllie said he’s humbled
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In this photo by Lindsey Wyllie, a young bareback rider is assisted by a pickup
man at the Heppner Rodeo. This photo was featured on the Sept. 21, 2015,
cover of “The Competitor News” magazine.
Prairie City Mayor Jim
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open to the community, will
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When the Oregon High
School Rodeo starts in Eugene
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will pick up again, and he’ll be
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sometimes come in to city be erected, highlighting the
hall — the kind that “big DUHD¶VULFKKLVWRU\
city” city halls don’t get,
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critters — neighbors’ mules program and plans to hold a
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mayor Jim Hamsher, mayor
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and councilors Carole Gar-
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Officer today for more information,
Goslin, Dottie Miller and Vi-
located at Grant County Court House.
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Philbrook noted some
of the humorous calls that
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John Day resident
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with his award-winning
cover photo.
section was in the northeast
part of town, in the area of
North Main and East Third
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JOHN DAY — Profession-
al rodeo photographer Lindsey
Wyllie kept his camera clicking
last year and was awarded “The
Competitor News” magazine’s
2015 Photographer of the Year,
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largest rodeo publication in the
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Wyllie, a John Day resident,
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last year, and he’s been a pho-
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photo went on the Competitor’s
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In the photo taken at the Ore-
gon Trail Pro Rodeo in Heppner,
a young bareback rider is about
to be bucked off and hung up,
when pickup man Cody Quillan
rides up and positions himself
beneath the rider, allowing him
to push back up on the horse and
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“The photo depicts the total
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That’s what it’s all about
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