Julia Dean Photography

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Julia Dean Photography

North Dakota based Photographer specializing in Livestock & Western Lifestyle Photography!

06/02/2026

Great Plains Land Company, LLC

If you want to cross your fingers for me to win this Photo contest that’d be a big help! 🙌🙌 One of my faves from a couple weekends ago!

06/01/2026

Get in buddy, we’re taking the kids branding ✨🔥✨

05/25/2026

Life is funny.

One time I moved to Canyon Texas with one horse, one dog and no truck & trailer. I kept my horse at this place where a sweet ND girl lived. We bonded over how the cold weather would keep us south forever, and she graciously agreed to be my header for the upcoming college rodeo season.

And now, 12 years later here we are wrangling our ranch rugrats together at her families branding here in ND. So much for avoiding winter forever huh Jess 😂.

04/20/2026

Calving & family 🤍

Hills Galore Stock Farms - Calving 2026

04/08/2026

Well, I must be official now if I have a website right? Go check it out by clicking the link below!

Booking is open, contact me now to get on the books!

02/22/2026

I am still here shooting photos, but just picturing bulls! Since getting home from Denver I went straight into catalog mode, and now that it's finally hitting mailboxes it feels good to move on to the next thing.

I have been designing the catalog for the past couple years, and it's been a learning curve but I have had the best teacher and mentor! Taking the pictures for the cover and designing every little detail has become such a fun and rewarding process!

And if you happen to be in the market for a bull this spring, click the link below and take a look at this year's offering!

https://www.effertzkeyranch.com/_files/ugd/da4f51_018e209a28024f408f72907ed06daf3e.pdf

01/24/2026

This year at the National Western I tried to take just a few more photos in between my nervous hair working and pacing between each bull.

Adam and I are so grateful to our crew for all their hard work during the week. It was the best time with wonderful people! The weather was awesome and it was so good to visit with everyone who stopped at the pen to chat with us.

I'm afraid the next day I take my camera out at home, won't be near as enjoyable... 🥶🥶🥶

12/18/2025

You can’t convince me there’s a more chic combo than a fur coat and a cowboy hat ✨

12/06/2025

When my child looks back at my photos..

I hope that she sees more than a bull, a horse or a family moment. I hope she feels the picture. I hope when she see's a picture of a us as a family, with the cows in the background she feels the warmth and the laughter and knows the whole story is the love we have for each other and the cattle.

I hope when she sees a picture of a herd bull, or a pair in the pasture she sees more than just "cows". I want her to feel the passion her dad and I have for them. I hope that she see's more than just what is on the surface of the image and looks into the depths of it and knows how much care has been taken for that animals existence.

I hope she knows all the time she spent in the backpack, was our way of giving her a front row seat to this life. And that sharing our passions and our dreams with her in this way was out of love for her.

07/16/2025

I hope you let them..

When your daughter asks to pet the pony, I hope you let her. I hope when your teenager asks to try a different 4H project, that you let them. I hope when your child is picking out colleges and they say they want to take something in Agriculture, that you encourage them..

Maybe it's just going to be another project you will be working on. Or maybe you're too tired to go halter the pony after working all day. Because same.

But, if we don't let kids experience this stuff, who will? We know the truth, that ranching & farming isn't easy. I get that it's easier to avoid the extra hassle of 4-H projects, another horse or another bottle calf. However, I think it is of the upmost importance to speak well about Agriculture to these kids. I'm not saying to leave out the realistic stuff, the things that make it difficult. But certainly don't tell them to stay away from those cattle, or not to pursue a degree in Animal Science. If we can be realistic we can also romanticize all the great things about what we do.

If we don't foster our children's love for one of the most beautiful ways to live - they may never choose to be in Agriculture after us. And what they'll miss is what hay smells like when it's ready to be cut. They'll miss what it feels like to save a calf and watch it thrive despite all odds. They may not learn that when a job needs done, you have to be there to finish it no matter how tired, cold or hungry you may be. Most importantly if we don't involve them now, they may not want to carry this on.

The industry needs our kids to be here on the ranch running cows, no matter the size of the herd. The industry has to have the next generation of kids sitting in a planter. I believe it is imperative that all sizes of operations continue to conduct business in a free market. If we don't continue to keep operating within the family, these farms and ranches may end up in the hands of corporations or worse.. turned over to the government.

I believe we tend to get lost in focusing on hardships, or the challenging years and we forget this can be done. Ranching & farming has been done before us, and I want to make it sure it will get done after us. That starts at home, with our kids. So, I hope you'll let them carry those buckets and run that tractor because the future depends on it.

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