What a beautiful scene, Wes! The sepia tone is very successful, that accentuates the Feeling of a "period look". To improve it I would obscure a bit the brightest parts of the photo: the wall in the upper right part, the sign on the left, the four columns, the road and grass. And try to clarify the driver's face.

This looks like quite the production.  Your exposure looks good, and I like the sepia treatment on this image.  I’m contemplating whether I might not crop from the top since the sign is already cropped from the left side anyway, and that might emphasize the subjects a bit more.

Charming image. The sepia is used to great effect.

     Since your background is lighter, my eye is drawn to it when you really want the ladies to be your main subject.  I suggest cropping to wagon master and ladies and forget the rest of the movie set.  They are a much more interesting image.  The do a little dodging on them to draw the eye to them. 

Before moving to Sun City in early 2004, Wes and Marge Odell lived “all over the West” making photographic images.  Wes has been an amateur photographer most of his life; had his own darkroom when he was 12; until recently was still a “film-shooter;” and has proficiency with the Adobe Photoshop “Digital Darkroom.”  Classic monochrome images are his favorite subjects, but he enjoys experimenting with Photoshop “artistic renditions” such as watercolors, and pen and ink.

Wes has won several awards including two First Prizes at the 2005 Texas State Fair, one First at the 2004 Texas Fair, and several prizes at Utah State and Salt Lake County Fairs, as well as some awards in the PSA Pictorial Print Division.  His work has been published by the Utah Travel Council.

He has been an officer of the Sun City Photography Club, and an Instructor of Photoshop.

Following his retirement as a computer industry executive Wes taught marketing and management at Texas State University.