[Monte Williams]

Thank you so much, PlayTime! It's a bummer that my most stalwart muses are such unpopular characters (and, consequently, such unpopular toys), 'cause my photos I'm most proud of and excited about tend to be ignored by most everyone else, relatively speaking; I almost didn't update this thread tonight since I noticed that no one had responded last time I shared photos; I don't want to spam the hell out of the thread if no one's interested.

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Originally Posted by PlayTime

Would love to see some old west meets Predator

Put simply: me, too.

I had the Viper Predator, as brilliantly repainted by Valerobots:

I ended up giving it to a friend who's a crazy Predator collector. I did capture a couple of shots with him and Tonto, but I wasn't happy with them.

I'd like to get the battle-damaged Predator (and the shirtless, bloody Dutch figure with which it was packed, so I can kitbash a shirtless, beat-to-hell Ranger), 'cause I think that one would be most effective in a photo with the Lone Ranger. Alas, it's never quite a high enough priority to justify the prices on eBay,

Someday I'm sure I'll get another Predator (I regret not nabbing the Wasp at Hastings a year or two ago), and if and when I do, you can bet there will be some Old West portraits.

[Monte Williams]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

Love the old west stuff.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Skoob

Does anybody else have the old classic Louis L'Amour pocketbooks?

I've actually never read any of his books. I have read the hell out of some Larry McMurtry, though.

[Monte Williams]

And the Air Was Filled With Lamentation, a Terrible Soundless Crying by Monte Williams, on Flickr


My Anger Rose, and With It My Righteousness, and My Vengeance by Monte Williams, on Flickr


On A Steel Horse I Ride by Monte Williams, on Flickr


John Reid's Mechanical Steed by Monte Williams, on Flickr

[Skoob]

Weird, but fun.

[Monte Williams]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

Weird, but fun.

That's good enough for me!

[Monte Williams]

A Place of Echoes and Shadows by Monte Williams, on Flickr

[Monte Williams]

Whew. Okay. Deep breath...

First off, something a bit different:

The Year is 1885 by Monte Williams, on Flickr

And now for the expected subjects...

To Truly Hate is an Art One Learns With Time by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He Seemed to Be Reconstructing a Past That Had Never Existed by Monte Williams, on Flickr


No Sleep 'Till Folsom by Monte Williams, on Flickr


An Amazing Mechanical Ballet by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Although He Respected and Even Envied the Leisure Others Enjoyed, He Fled From It by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Monsters of Smoke and Mirror by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And Menaced in a Rather Subtle Way by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Had I Known But Yesterday What I Know Today, I'd Have
Taken Out Your Two Grey Eyes and Put In Eyes of Clay by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Power of Prayer II by Monte Williams, on Flickr

And to close, several variations on a theme; silhouettes at sunrise, starring The Lone Ranger and an Alien Xenomorph.

There's Something Horribly Unfair About Dying in the Middle of a Good Story by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And Often Did My Human Nature Turn With Loathing From My Occupation by Monte Williams, on Flickr


My Travels Were Long, and the Sufferings I Endured Intense by Monte Williams, on Flickr


My Heart Often Sickened at the Work of My Hands by Monte Williams, on Flickr




The Final Sunrise by Monte Williams, on Flickr

And my favorites of the bunch:

War of the Worlds by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Not Very Long Ago for Those With Long Memories, Not Very Far Away for Those With Long Legs by Monte Williams, on Flickr

[TheBlueMarvel]

They are all gorgeous, but this one is so damn 'purty!':


The Final Sunrise by Monte Williams, on Flickr

I really admire your work, Monte! Keep rockin'!

[Monte Williams]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

They are all gorgeous, but this one is so damn 'purty!'

Thank you so much, sir!

That whole space backdrop was accomplished with the push of a button on PicMonkey, so there are limits to the extent to which I can take credit.

[TheBlueMarvel]

@Monte

No prob...still takes artistic sensibilities to pair it up with awesomely posed silhouetted figures! We live in the an age where digital nuance can create stunning collages!

[Monte Williams]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

We live in the an age where digital nuance can create stunning collages!

If it weren't for digital cameras I'd have never picked up the hobby. They make it so easy and fun.

[Monte Williams]

The Clocks Struck On and On, Long Past Twelve, Telling the Time of a Strange, New Era by Monte Williams, on Flickr


This Was Indeed a Godlike Science, and I Ardently Desired to Become Acquainted With It by Monte Williams, on Flickr


No Tongue's Drier Than Mine by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Pact and the Promise by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And He Knew That His Way Now Led Back to Bereavement by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And Had I Known But Yesterday You'd Be No More My Own, I'd Have Taken Out Your Heart of Flesh and Put In One of Stone by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Because He Knows a Frightful Fiend Doth Close Behind Him Tread by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Trouble With the Damned is, They Never Stay Put by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Old Ways May Not Always Be Best, But They Still Work for Me by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I Will Endeavor to Resign Myself Cheerfully to Death by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Books of Blood by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Throw the Rope Over a Branch and Let Us Hang This Rogue! by Monte Williams, on Flickr


For My Own Part, I Begin to Love Him as a Brother by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Nous Sommes Fucked by Geek Creek Junior, on Flickr


Montana Territory by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Baptism by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Temple of the Living Map by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Power of Prayer III—Prisma; Dreams—Collage by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Up North Ain't A Place—It's A Direction by Monte Williams, on Flickr


You'll Never See Me—Prisma by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Remember Tomorrow by Monte Williams, on Flickr


St. Mary's Lake by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Thirty-Thirty by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Trouble With the Damned is, They Never Stay Put—Adobe Paintcan by Monte Williams, on Flickr


But My Hopes Fluctuate, and My Spirits Are Often Depressed by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He Found His Strength Not in the Sympathy of Others, But in the Harsh Ordeal of Unfamiliar New Challenges and Lonely Adventure by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Somewhere Inside That Infant Hell, Horses Began to Scream by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Ghost Town—PaintCan App by Monte Williams, on Flickr


You're a Notch and I'm a Legend by Monte Williams, on Flickr


No Sleep 'Till Kill Devil Hill by Monte Williams, on Flickr


There Are Such Sins At My Back It Would Kill Me to Turn Around by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I Hope I Didn't Scare You by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I'm Not a Man At All—It Makes My Skin Crawl by Monte Williams, on Flickr

[Monte Williams]

This is going to be a gigantic update (fifty photos, if I counted correctly); hopefully the fact that it's the first in nearly a year mitigates the self-indulgence somewhat.

Estas Usando la Marca by Monte Williams, on Flickr


A Man Who Cannot Be Killed At All by Monte Williams, on Flickr


But Miracles Are Scary Things by Monte Williams, on Flickr


It Is When Men are Off in the Wilds That They Show Themselves as They Really Are by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Loving Every Second, Every Moment, Every Scream by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Every Possible Feeling of Romance and Adventure by Monte Williams, on Flickr


It Was Just Another Showdown in Another Empty Street by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I Have Always Known That One Day I Would Make This Journey, But Yesterday I Did Not Know That It Would Be Today by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Let the Fury Swell! Let the Skies All Cry! Let the Day Begin! by Monte Williams, on Flickr


November Coming Fire by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I Am a Child of Time and Night, and This Place Will Prove My End by Monte Williams, on Flickr


One Day, Perhaps, We Will Have Become Legends by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Taking Shaky Breaths of Air That Newly Smelled of Herbs and Cinders by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He Found It Hard To Stop Singing His Death Song, For He Had Already Turned Loose of His Spirit and Sent It Away by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Ultimate Alien Menace by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Old West Ash II by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Mortician by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Because He Knows a Frightful Fiend Doth Close Behind Him Tread—Prisma by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Give Us This Day Our Daily Blood by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And All He Can Do is Pray to the God in Whom He No Longer Strictly Believes by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Mortician Returns by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Sword of Omens by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Abstract Arctic by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Winter Slammed Us Like A Fist by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He is Familiar With the Slightly Greasy Sensation of Black Magic's Residue by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He Can Recognize the Echoing Whisper of Lives Taken By Sorcery... But to Him This Place is Silent by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Winter Slammed Us Like A Fist—Prisma Collage by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Winter Wolf by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Cowboys and Aliens II by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Cowboys and Aliens III by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He Didn't Want to Be What He Wasn't, He Didn't Know How to Be What He Was by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And the World Pulls the Trigger On All Its Guns by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Trinkets and Fossils by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Fata Morgana by Monte Williams, on Flickr


God Grant He Lie Still II by Monte Williams, on Flickr


And When I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Take Along Samuel Colt by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Hiding From His Possible Selves by Monte Williams, on Flickr


How Small a Part of Time We Share 'Till We Hear the Sound of Wings by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Hell's Clock by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Nor Was He Afraid For His Skin, Because He Did Not Value It by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Soul's Attachment to the Body Was Such an Undependable Thing by Monte Williams, on Flickr


It Was Wild Outside Him and Wild Within by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I Shall Have to Rest Before I Attempt Another Such Ritual by Monte Williams, on Flickr


There Was Really No Longer a West by Monte Williams, on Flickr


When the Time's at Hand and I Kill a Man, I Say a Little Prayer by Monte Williams, on Flickr


He Had Been Thinking About His Soul a Lot Since the Encounter On Crazy Woman Creek by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Never Had I Been in a Place That Felt So Nakedly Haunted by Monte Williams, on Flickr


We Were Neither What We Had Been Nor What We Would Become Once We Reached Our Destination by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Last of His Breed in a World that was Writing the Last Page of Its Book by Monte Williams, on Flickr


An Expert In The Uses Of Solitude by Monte Williams, on Flickr

[Monte Williams]

And When You See Beauty In Desolation It Changes Something Inside You by Monte Williams, on Flickr


As It Could Not for the Moment Find Any Outward Expression, His Anger Took On the Form of Melancholy by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Trees Are Not Trees The Birds Are Not Birds And I Am Not Me But Just Something That Has Been Walking For A Very Long Time by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Hole in the Sky Was Said to Be Far to the South by Monte Williams, on Flickr


His Face Bore an Expression That Mingled Haughty Disdain With a Tender, Ardent Sympathy, As If He Would Love All Things If Only His Nature Could Let Him Forget Their Defects by Monte Williams, on Flickr


His Suspicion Was That White People Simply Had No Serious Interest In Truth by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Ghost Town—Prisma Redux by Monte Williams, on Flickr


In a Crowd It's So Crowded You Don't Even Notice Your Own Death by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Now and Again, Though, He Felt the Sadness of the Faithless by Monte Williams, on Flickr


A Tale of Two Tontos by Monte Williams, on Flickr


Hangman's Gulch by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Catch by Monte Williams, on Flickr


It Was As If All the Pain in the World Had Found a Voice by Monte Williams, on Flickr


So They Stood, the Travelers, At the Edge of the Land of the Dead by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Moment You're Born, Your Death Comes Into the World With You by Monte Williams, on Flickr


The Gorgon's Promise by Monte Williams, on Flickr


I Began Now to Distinguish a Deeper Blackness in the Black by Monte Williams, on Flickr


So Relative Is Our Idea of Grace by Monte Williams, on Flickr

[iLLest]

Very cool pics.