Painterly Photos For Localism? A Western Landscape or Two

Doreen McPherson commented on one of my posts, saying that the twilight photo looked "painterly." That's the photo above. I call it "Nightfall in Tucson Estates II."

I'm not an artist, but my family has a few who are. My dad, my sister, my cousin, two neices and my late grandfather all are (were) artists, and Doreen's comment struck a chord.

Yesterday I drove down to Sierra Vista with a client from Minnesota to look at some manufactured homes I have on a liquidation list. On the way back to Tucson, I took a photo of this granite escarpment on the west side of State Highway 90. I love the formation, and the late afternoon sun painted it with a sense of old west drama. Can't you imagine Apaches looking down from the high cliffs?

The word "painterly" came to mind again when I downloaded it to my computer this evening.

This is the photo rendered with the drybrush filter in Photoshop, (brush size: 8, brush detail: 3, texture: 2)

I think it looks painterly. :)

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