Intriguing Vistas who? đŸ™ƒ
We are travelers that just can't get enough of the beauty that Mother Nature creates!Â
After 45 years in the transportation industry I had been through that ringer more than enough. An online store named Intriguing Vistas was never in my wildest dreams something that was going to be in my future. Funny how things happen, and I'm now doing something that makes me smile everyday. And I think I'm pretty good at! Please tell me how wrong I am about that!
My retirement plan was completely different from its current course, and I'm quite alright with that. Life had other plans and you can choose to jump on board, hang on, and see where you go, or stay at the station wondering what happened to your life...I've always thought standing at the station was a waste of time...there is way too much to do and see.
Oh, the name....well it's kind of simple and I think, kind of cool.
Beside the fact that it fits perfectly with how we try to live life, It is also a play on words as well. If you look at our home page picture (I'll wait while you look) back? Ok... what you are looking at is a 1996 (yup 1996) Country Coach Intrigue, Vista edition, diesel pusher coach. Which has taken us across the U.S. twice so far with excursions up and down both coasts as well. We are not even close to being done with travelling and capturing as much of the beauty that North America has to offer as is possible. The amount of pictures that I have to work with so far, is mind boggling!!! That library is growing daily too!
I think this could be a really cool ride...and if you see some old guy driving an antique RV with his head hanging out the window like a dog, smiling and waving......yeah that's probably me. Say Hi!!
Now more serious stuff.
Art Theft is a CRIME!! It has no place here, and it never will! Stealing someone else's work is pretty low. And I need to be able to look at myself in the mirror, as scary as that is! Â
Also, in my mind, using AI to create images from nothing but commands on a keyboard is Art Theft. Not a point of discussion, it is.
AI gets those images from what it has been exposed to and learned from, which has been the work of a millennia of artists....human artists. Stop supporting this practice.
Nothing and I mean nothing, is used in the images that you see on our products that wasn't in the original picture that I started with. I use a few different programs to achieve the look I want from each image. The one addition I do make, is to add our logo.
That's it.
Integrity Matters!