Home Sweet Home - Landscape

Home Sweet Home

The discovery of adding textures to my photography has been a wonderful thing.  With this technique, I'm now able to create the mood I feel when I see the subject I'm photographing.  I'm able to turn my photos into works of art - almost painting-like - with these new techniques I've learned.  I'm thrilled at the response on Pinterest to my artistic photographs - they get liked and repinned more than they are shared on any other social media site.  Which tells me when people SEE the art, they, too, feel what I feel.  They feel the mood I've created.  And that is truly a wonderful thing. :)

Many weekends lately, I've had my husband Michael drive me around to different areas so I could find beautiful landscapes to photograph.  We have so many here in Tennessee, and it's a shame not to share the stunning vision we get to see here.  Last weekend, we stumbled on this little gem.  Okay, so it's not so little. :)  We almost missed it - we had been out for an hour and still had to take care of my least favorite chore (grocery shopping).  

We were heading back into town as we passed this gravel drive with a simple wire gate with a padlock and a for sale sign in front.  I almost didn't turn my head to the left - I was actually photographing a farm on the right and happened to see this out of the corner of my eye.  My neck still hurts from cranking it around so quickly after the glimpse.  And I told Michael, "Turn around!  Go back!  Pull in the drive of that house for sale!"  And like the good husband he is, he did.

When we pulled into the drive, I stood and just stared at the vision behind the padlocked gate.  What a gorgeous southern mansion!  I think I was somewhat dumbfounded something like this didn't have a more elegant entrance.  But it was completely okay, because I was able to get awesome photos of this masterpiece of a home.  I also took a photo of the for sale sign, knowing there was no way something so gorgeous would be in the budget of this struggling artist.  Maybe someday...but not right now.

The original photo was beautiful - how could it not be with such a stunning subject?  But it needed more.  It needed that home sweet home feeling I felt when I saw it.  That feeling that captures your breath in your throat when you see it.  A feeling which says, ahhhh, I'm home and this makes me happy.  The feeling that said "I'd love to come home to this view every evening."  With adding a few textures, some work on the sky, and the addition of the grazing horse, my feeling came to life.

Home Sweet Home can be yours too.  You can look at this beautiful Southern mansion every day when you hang this art on your wall.  Or when you order a mousepad with the art on it to add to your desk.  Or even if you simply add a refrigerator magnet to your kitchen.  You can get all of this and more right here.  And more prints and cards are available here.  And even more products and prints are available here.  You pick.  You choose. And you get the feeling too.

InJoy,

Jai