Turning Vacation Photos Into Art: a house log

With a house full of newly painted neutral walls, we are psyched to have plenty of rooms begging for some art. So hopefully you will start to see several posts about good artsy-fartsy finds.

We are starting with a The house team original. When we went on our Alaskan honeymoon in July we took tons of memorable photos, including the one below during a private seaplane flight to a remote volcano several miles outside of Anchorage (yep, I said volcano in Alaska).

That field of blue and black in the foreground is a glacier speckled with deposits of volcanic ash. Certainly not something you see everyday. On a whim, I desaturated the pic in Photoshop to see what it got me. I am officially obsessed with the result:

So obsessed that we got a square frame, a 12″ x 12″ print at Kinko’s for $10 and tah-dah – our first new piece of classy D.I.Y art. We even penned “Alaska, July 2007” on the mat (under the bottom right corner of the photo) to make it feel like the true piece of original art that it is. Here it is showcased above Sherry’s desk: