On a trip to the Calgary Stampede art show in 2015, I did what I usually did, and flyfished and camped my way up the eastern side of the mountains in Alberta. I spent a few days in the Kananaskis Country SW of Calgary. One afternoon I drove around a corner and there was a herd of bighorns in the middle of the road. They just stood there and I got some great shots, especially of the big rams. I put together some different landscape reference to put the painting together.