This is Jacob. I met him at the Arcadia Rodeo. He was fascinated with my big old wooden camera. I lowered the tripod and let him look through the ground glass on the back and he was hooked. He immediately wanted to help, so I put him to work and his was the first plate I made that day. 

“Here beyond men’s judgments all covenants were brittle.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West