Joshua Washington carried his camera into a creaking country log cabin that smelled like a holdout from the Old West, or perhaps just a cowboy movie set. The Pasadena Memorial High School senior, from Houston, was stepping outside his comfort zone for art’s sake.
Inside, there were actors donning leather chaps and cowboy hats, and sitting in buffalo skin chairs under artificial lights. This was a photoshoot. Washington, 18, had been invited to snap reference photos for his Western painting that would later win him the grand championship in this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program.
