Category Archives: Small town celebration

action photos, blended layers digital photography, blended photography, community pride, composite photography, creativity, Digital painting, digital photography, Gary, SD, HDR, imagination, joyce meyer photography, photo editing, photography, photography by joyce meyer, Photoshop, photoshop manipulation, rjmeyerarts, RJMeyerArts, rjmeyerarts.com, rodeo, rodeo photography, SD, small town, Small town celebration, South Dakota, sports action photography, sports photography, topaz edits, tourism, travel, travel, Uncategorized

Looking ahead … Rodeo Days.

Gallery Leave a comment

Patiently waiting for summer as I edit on a cold, blustery day.

art, art photography, blended layers digital photography, community, community pride, composite photography, creativity, digital art photography, Digital painting, digital photography, Gary, SD, photography, photography by joyce meyer, photoshop manipulation, prairie, rjmeyerarts, RJMeyerArts, rjmeyerarts.com, rodeo, rodeo photography, SD July 3 Celebration, small town, Small town celebration, South Dakota, Southwest Minnesota, sports action photography, sports photography, summer, summer on the prairie, tourism, travel, travel, travel photography, travel the united states, Uncategorized

Gate City to the West

Leave a comment

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. ~Richard Russo

Gary, South Dakota

Gary, SD is a small community (population 224) nicknamed “Gate City to the West” located along the SD/MN border.

Background image photography and edit by Joyce Meyer. Canon 5D Mark 3 with a 70-200, 2.8 Canon IS L lens, cropped and sized in Photoshop to fit the 11 x 17 inch poster format with Impressionistic painting effect added using Topaz Studio.

Kudos to graphic designer, Diane Swenson, Canby Print Shop, Canby, MN, for her stellar design work on the 2019 Gary Rodeo poster (which features my image as the background). Canby, MN is a small, southwestern Minnesota town of just 1700 people located 14 miles east of Gary, South Dakota. Our communities may be lacking in size, but we know how to get things done.

You’ll find the Gary Rodeo grounds located on the northwest edge of Gary, SD, in a natural setting with the quaint prairie community of Gary, SD, as its backdrop.

Maybe it’s time for you to take a little trip and experience the life in Gary, South Dakota!

digital photography, Gary, GoPro camera, GoPro Hero 2, Joyce Meyer, joyce meyer photography, photography, SD July 3 Celebration, small town, Small town celebration, South Dakota, sports action photography, sports photography, turtle races, Uncategorized

Through the eyes of a turtle

Leave a comment

Attach a GoPro Hero 2 camera (Redneck style) to a Turtle shell and you have a whole new way of looking at life. Images and video captured with the GoPro camera mounted on the turtle during the Gary, South Dakota July 3rd, 2015 Turtle races. GoProTurtlecr

Below is a short slide show put together on iMovie and uploaded to Youtube including a video clip featuring the results…

Celebrations, Independence Day, photography, Small town celebration, Uncategorized

Gary, SD is the place to be

Leave a comment

Everyone loves a small town celebration and nobody does it better than Gary, South Dakota.

FIREWORKSBLEND2web
Photography by Joyce Meyer

Gary, SD July 3-4 posterFriday, July 3rd will be here soon so I’d better go outside now and search for just the right turtle for the races.

See you in Gary, SD!!