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A beauty worth stopping for

Local photographer’s countryside snapshot chosen as 2026-27 Area Guide cover
A beauty worth stopping for
Local photographer Kelly Pryor, owner of KJP Nature’s Eye Photography, captured the pastoral Texas landscape shot that appears on the cover of the 2026-27 Area Guide.

Author: PHOTO COURTESY KELLY PRYOR

For photographers, capturing that perfect photo is everything — even if it means asking a loved one to pull over on the side of the road during a family road trip.

Local nature photographer Kelly Pryor didn’t intend to make a pit stop in Royse City for the simple purpose of snapping a photo, but one glance at a rustic barn along a quiet Texas back road was just too picturesque to pass up.

“We were down there visiting my brother, and we were coming home on one of the little back roads, and I saw that and was like, ‘Oh, that is it, that screams Texas 100%,’” Pryor told The Azle News. “I was like, ‘Stop the car. I want that picture!’”

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