Indy's Photography Blog

Originally Posted by Indy

It's been an adventure getting everything set up to get this house, but we closed last week, and moved in over the weekend. Our house is about 2300 sq. feet, sitting on 5 acres of property south of Amarillo. I can't even begin to express how good it feels getting into a home after living in an apartment for the last 5 years.

This is a panorama from the north side of the house:

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That was what my mortgage lender told me this afternoon as I was talking to him on the way home from work. So, within the next few days, we close on our house that we've been working to get for the last couple of months...a 2300 sq. foot house on five acres just south of Amarillo. I'm so stoked.

A little more photoshop stuff...

Originally Posted by Indy

More photoshop fun...I composited two photos that I had together to get this image...seemed like a natural fit

A little bit of photoshopery...

Originally Posted by Indy

A little photoshop fun...this picture I took back during Christmas while on vacation down in Orlando. Our last day was at the Harry Potter Wizarding World...the place was beyond packed, so I was kind of limited as far as shots that I could take without anyone in them. This was one of them. Added the clouds, moon, and nighttime effects to mood it up a bit...

An art class I took years and years ago pointed out that capturing someone's attention was as important, if not more so, than the art itself when it came to advertising. The example our teacher gave us was a full spread newspaper ad that had nothing more than a red dot several inches wide centered on the page, along with the name of the company underneath. It was very hard to miss. With that in mind, I was playing around with a couple of shots the other day, using a rubber kong ball our dog plays ...