Out Of The West

Linda Gregory

Out Of The West

This photograph was taken at the Empire Ranch open house in Sonoita, Arizona. The open house is held to promote the restoration of the 22-room adobe ranch house. It is a photographer’s paradise with many activities and people to shoot. Photographed with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ 50.


“Out Of The West” was featured in:
QUARTER HORSES/July, 2009
LIVE, LOVE, DREAM/July, 2009
ALL ABOUT RODEOS/July, 2009
SPIRIT/August, 2009
VISUAL ARTISTS OF GREEN VALLEY—3 A DAY/September, 2009
FEATURED ONLY/August, 2009
INSIDE SOLO/October 10, 2009
Top 10 in THE WILD WEST SHOW’s “Saddle and Tack, Boots and Spurs” Challenge/October, 2009
Top 10 in THE WILD WEST SHOW’s “The Old West – New Group Avatar/November, 2009*





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Out Of The West by Linda Gregory
Out Of The West by Linda Gregory
  • John Weakly

    John Weakly

    What great detail and rough “Cowboy” look. It almost looks like it could be a painting. Great shot Linda.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thanks, John. This was a nice photo without the texture treatment, but the effect really put emotion to it, I think.

  • Emily Bagley

    Emily Bagley

    This is really great. It reminds me of an old-time movie poster.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thanks, Emily. I’m very pleased with how this turned out.

  • Linda Sparks

    Linda Sparks

    I am sooooo jealous. This is exactly the kind of pics I want to take.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you so much, Linda, and I didn’t do any cropping either.

  • aspectsoftmk

    aspectsoftmk

    the compostition of the shot brings out the feel to me..:) terri

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you so much, Terri. I’m just starting to experiment with this effect. I have lots more ranch photos to go through.

  • Shoaib .

    Shoaib .

    wonderful use of texture and and the crop is excellent too

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much. No crop here. Just filled the frame.

  • dkleing

    dkleing

    Absolutely STUNNING, amazing detail and colours.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much.

  • Linda Sparks

    Linda Sparks

    Congrats on the Feature. No surprise here

  • walela

    walela

    Fantastic!

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much.

  • Diana-Lee Saville

    Diana-Lee Saville

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Glad you like it.

  • Vincent LAÏK

    Vincent LAÏK

    Hi,
    I’m glad you liked Red Nebula, I spent a lot of time combining the original gouache painting with the textured fonts and background.
    I wanted to give the poster a kind of retro futuristic aspect.

    As for your photographs, I really find them amazing, especially “out of the West”, whose colours and texture remind me of what I wanted to achieve with Red Nebula, and “let’s rob a bank”. They both have a kind of Norman Rockwell style and warm style.
    There are two fine pieces of art

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much, Vincent. With Out of the West I used a wrinkled paper texture on top of a grungy frame. The color of the paper provided the aged look. I don’t remember what texture I used with Let’s Rob a Bank, but if I remember, I’ll let you know. I haven’t gotten into layering fonts, too.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    I think I used the aged wrinkled paper texture under Let’s Rob A Bank, too. The photograph was fairly dark to begin with lending the ominous look.

  • Tara Turner

    Tara Turner

    sensational!

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much, Tara.

  • Mark Coward

    Mark Coward

    Great shot.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thanks very much, Mark.

  • grimduke1

    grimduke1

    I’m amazed nobodys mentioned the Marlboro man posters!...This is a classic image and reminds me of those. The colours, details and textures involved are magnificent. Terrific shot!

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much. Now that you mention it, this does look like a Marlboro poster.

  • Gene Praag

    Gene Praag

    Linda this is such a beautiful work of art!

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you, Gene.

  • enchantedImages

    enchantedImages

    I love the vintage look of this and the others, Linda.
    Excellent work on your part!
    When you say grungy “frame” what exactly do you mean- if you don’t mind my asking?
    – Bobbi

  • Linda Gregory replied

    It’s a layer with an irregular or rough-edged frame as in a picture frame. If you look carefully at Out Of The West, I think you can see a subtle framing effect on the outside of the photo. I know that if you do a search for free grunge texture you’ll know it when you see it.

  • enchantedImages

    enchantedImages

    Thanks so much for your helpfulness, Linda.
    I have a lot of downloaded textures. Guess I haven’t been to the right site with frames.
    Cheers! – Bobbi

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Try stock.xchng.com and check their grunge textures. That’s where I got most of mine.

  • Scott d'Almeida

    Scott d'Almeida

    brilliant

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much, Scott.

  • Linda Gregory

    Linda Gregory

    Thank you very much for the feature in FEATURED ONLY, August 11, 2009.

  • Linda Sparks

    Linda Sparks

    OOOHHH that’s a biggy. Congrats.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Yahooooooo. Thanks, Linda.

  • Emily Bagley

    Emily Bagley

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much, Emily.

  • Linda Sparks

    Linda Sparks

    AWWW. Your’s should have won the Tack, boots, etc Challenge! but congrats for 2d place.

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thanks very much. Oh, well.

  • Barbara Applegate

    Barbara Applegate

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much, Barbara.

  • F.A. Moore

    F.A. Moore

    Congratulations on being featured
    Inside Solo, vol 13!


    Inside Solo is the Art News and Resource magazine from Solo Exhibition.

    Click the link, top, to go there and see the magazine and your feature.

  • steppeland

    steppeland

    Wonderful image and great colours and textures. Congrats with the feature in Inside Solo!

  • Linda Gregory replied

    Thank you very much.

  • Barbara Applegate

    Barbara Applegate 16 days ago

    WHAA-HOO!!!!!

  • Linda Gregory replied 15 days ago

    Thank you, Barbara. That’s exciting news.

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