Hola,

Well it took some doing .... I really liked the picture I used for the 
backdrop so I figured a way to keep it in the scene. I used "looks_like" on 
my main light source and positioned it just in front of where the sun 
appears to be. It left the front to the building in the shadows. That 
started the radiosity task which wasn't that difficult, the radiosity 
tutorial in the pov docs pointed me in the right direction, however I didn't 
get the results I wanted until I switched from a sky_sphere to a hollow 
sphere surrounding the entire scene. I used an eye dropper to sample the 
colors from the backdrop photo and textured the sphere with a three part 
color_map with a scaled bozo distribution. Thanks everyone for all the 
constructive feedback.

Jim

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