Driftwood Luxury

In small community just southwest of Austin, Texas, this tasteful home provides a great deal of luxury in a modest size. At just 3500 square feet, there is little wasted space, yet you'll find features such dome ceilings, timber beams and headers, and limestone interior walls.

This home proved to be something of a photographic challenge; the front of the house was bordered by a cliff, requiring a wide angle lens (which I don't like to use on exteriors) to capture the elevation, and preventing me from using my roof-rack rig to photograph from the top of my SUV. Other challenges were presented by dark wall and sloped ceiling colors upstairs, making some rooms difficult to light, and warm colors on the first floor that presented a tad of a white-balance challenge. These things resulted in a little extra time spent on the property, but the end results I think turned out pretty well.