Jim McRae is a quiet Vermonter, a craftsman, for half the year he rides around the Northeast shearing sheep, sometime he loves. When he works in our barn, he is quiet, almost shy. When he has a crowd, he sings, dances, and shows off his shearing underwear. People like him are one of the reasons I love where I live, he lives his own life in his own way, He spends no time on the Internet, he fixes old film cameras and herds sheep and trains border collies.

He loves everything he does, it was a pleasure to take his portrait. I thought of doing it in black and white, but I think this came out right.