The Team Roping Journal

LIFE KIT: SERVICE AND SHOOTING RODEO

The name Phil Kitts should ring a bell. As the photographer behind Avid Visual Imagery, he's a linchpin in this brand's efforts to run captivating photography with our stories. He's also a U.S. Army veteran and survivor of an Iraq War car bomb. And above all, he's a cowboy.

Today, Kitts is a father of four running the legs off the photography business in Kansas with his wife, Heidi. His start was on the other end of the lens, though.

“My whole life's been rural,” Kitts explained, “Born in California. Lived on a pretty good sized cattle operation up until high school, just south of Bakersfield, up on The Grapevine. Then we moved to Springville,

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