Late Plains Clothes

[CowboyCS]

I was kinda feeling left out since I don't have any rondy clothes anymore. I haven't been to a rondy in more than 10 years. But I thought you all might like to see some pics of me and the family duded up for the Plains era. We do some youth programs on our ranch, and we try to show them how it was in the early days of our homestead. My family homesteaded our Ranch in 1868.
This first one is Very close friend(almost a brother) we were headed out to preach a youth meeting and my wife managed to get a few pics of us. I'm the big guy on the right.

And this is my family, this pic is about 2 years old and the boy are much larger now.

Enjoy

Colin

[FrankG]

Lookin Good Colin !

[Chaffa Hosa]

I think this qualifies for the extra posts
Very nice

[Dryball]

Yup! You gottem ,Colin.

Ned

[Roaring Bull]

Great looking shot, Cowboy!  Nice family ya got there.

[CowboyCS]

Thank you for the compliments guys and the extra posts.
I've got a whole bunch of Black and whites and sepia's from about 7 years ago, my wife was complaining to me on a pretty regular basis that she didn't have any pictures of me. So for her birthday that year, I had a professional photobug friend of mine shoot the boys and I out on a ranch I was working for. He did the shoot for just the rights to publish our pictures if he wanted to and the cost of developing the ones I wanted blown up. I gave her 4 big blow ups of the best shots, and then she got a 150 pic photo album of the whole shoot for her birthday. So my living room has all these classic old looking sepia western ranch shots, of my boys and I.

[windwalker_au]

nice pix Collin
Bernie :)

[Ironwood]

I really like the photos.  All of them.  And having them done is black and white is so much better than if they had been in color.  Good looking family too!

[Ranger]

Great pics Colin!  8)

[CowboyCS]

I really like the photos.  All of them.  And having them done is black and white is so much better than if they had been in color.  Good looking family too!

Thank you. The prints I scanned are black and white, but the ones I had blown up, my buddy printed in sepia, it's got that browny/tin color and washes out at the edges like the originals.

Colin

[Ironwood]

Yes I'm familiar with Sepia.  Way back when I had a darkroom I did some enlargments in Sepia.  I think most digitals now days have a Sepia setting.  I'm not sure how well the Sepia setting works.  I don't think I've ever used that setting on purpose. :) 

Like I said I think B & W adds a lot to drama to a photo.  The viginetting, the dark edges of the photo, adds and air of age to the photos. 

[Roaring Bull]

yeah and they look cool too!