When I was a producer at  CBS News, my boss took my aside and gave me some advice on how to survive in the corporate world. He said you basically have two choices. You can either eat lunch or be lunch. You can order from the menu or be on the menus. Ultimately, I gave up on the corporate world just as the corporate world gave up on me. We were not for one another. I think of this advice often as I go through life and I always think of it when I watch Red work with the sheep. The sheep are lunch, and Red is not. The border collie eats lunch, the sheep are lunch.

Yes, this is a metaphor for life. Red’s projects this attitude every minute of his work. He weights about 60 lbs and is telling about 700 lbs of sheep what to do and they do it. Why?, I wonder, when any one of them could knock him down. Because when you look in this eyes, you see confidence focus and determination. I am in charge, you will do as I say. I don’t want to be in charge, but I don’t want to be on the menu either. Red minds me to eat lunch, not be lunch.

And yes, to get this shot you have to lie down in the snow on your belly. Cold but worth it.