Timothy Courtney Media

TimothyCourtneyMedia.com is the creative portfolio of Timothy Courtney, a photographer, artist, designer, and photojournalist whose work explores the intersection of visual storytelling, fine art, design, and documentary photography.

Featuring an extensive body of work, the portfolio showcases photography, original artwork, video game projects, and exclusive photojournalism, offering a distinctive perspective on people, places, culture, and the moments that shape our world.

Beyond his personal creative work, Timothy is also available for commissioned projects, collaborating with individuals, businesses, and organizations to transform ideas and concepts into compelling visual experiences. His commissioned services include custom graphic design, original artwork, photography, and other creative solutions thoughtfully developed to meet each client's unique vision and needs.

Photography. Art. Design. Photojournalism. One creative vision.

In this view of downtown Houston, you can see the busy afternoon traffic flowing in and out of the city...	Desert Night is a painting of a sandy desert at the start of the night. Classic cacti are spread across the landscape, with bright and colorful shades throughout the scene...	I found this northern map turtle sunbathing on a river rock and was impressed how it had found the perfect one...

Galleria Mall in Houston at night. I stayed there a while for this shot to get the colors so vibrant...	I dare you to find cuter kittens than these three...	You can see the grand main entrance to the ExxonMobil headquarters campus in Springwoods Village...

Snowy mountains in early Spring is a painting of mountain tops and trees partially covered in snow as Winter begins to end...	This is the Galvestonian, a 12-story condo on E. Beach in Galveston Texas. Some of the penthouse suites have 5 bedrooms overlooking the ocean....	Volcano apocalypse is a painting with fiery lava erupting into a bleak setting of apocalpse...

The sun is setting over the nearly 2 mile Woodlands waterway running through center square...	Werewolfland is a fantasy landscape painting of a lush forest where werewolves are thought to live...	The Houston City Hall building at Bagby St downtown was completed in July of 1939. Some nights, it's lit up in Cougar red...

This painting is called Rome Concrete Construction, inspired by a fascination with Roman architecture and inventions including their concrete which lasts far longer than what we use today...	The Woodlands waterway trolley crosses under a bridge toward the main section of the riverwalk...	Lucas the Game is a unique action platformer, DRM-free and available to play for Windows, Mac, and Linux...

The Woodlands Church at Fellowship drive was built in 2001 and seats up to 4,000 people...	Space Ace Assassin is a fun space shooter game, where you battle the intergalactic guard. Available for Windows...	Huts in the desert mountains is a surreal painting of a vast desert with remote dwellings...

This painting is called Sunflower by Timothy Courtney. It's a bright and cheerful painting inspired by Summer...	NASA Scientist Marc Fries, Dr. Neeraja Chinchalkar, and Rice Professor Bidong Zhang discuss the Houston meteorite fall on-site...	The famous endangered species, the ring-tailed Lemurs from Madagascar. There was even a hit movie series based on this unique species...

In this photo, people wait in line for the Texas Renaissance Festival's elephant ride...	I'm waiting on a bench at an old historic train station. The way they used to make things is so different...	This Malayan Tiger is extremely endangered. There are only about 150 of these tigers...

Sikorsky helicopter seen in the movie The Titanic, flying above the gulf beaches in Galveston Texas...	This is the iconic downtown Houston Texas skyline. This was photographed near Sam Houston Park...	This is a famous River Oaks mansion in Houston and it's home to Lakewood Church preacher Joel Osteen....

In Lucas the Game, the player is jumping on a trampoline box as a red scarf monster skates on ice ahead....	Dreaming about Nashville is a painting of a vibrant woodland with beautiful and fast moving water running through it...	This is an amazing field with the sun shining through the clouds. The clouds were so nice on this day. It had been raining off and on again...

construction of Kelsey Seybold in Springwoods Village...	The Burrowing Owl has memorable yellow eyes and dome shaped heads...	Look at the open palm and extended fingers of an Orangutan or Pongo Pygmaeus. Orangutans are considered Great Apes...

In the game Space Ace Capital Galaxy, a robotic guard explodes after being shot by the player's spaceship...	Faithbridge Church on Stuebner Airline's construction was completed in 2006. It is around 55,000 sq ft...	Photography Tips: I've had my media on every major TV network in Houston, many regional programs, & sites from news to travel. I made a video to help others edit photos...

Cabin in the Woods is a painting of a remote old cabin beside a peaceful pond and wooded area...	This is a North American black bear. Their coats can be black, brown, cinnamon, or even blonde....	This tourist boat is a taxi for the Woodlands Waterway. It's a tourist spot in the Woodlands...

The hammerfall survivor answered questions for a while from a second story window about the meteorite that crashed through her roof...	In this closeup of the chondrite, you can see some of the hairline fractures, known as dark streaks, where the rock...	The lucky meteorite owner explained her surprise at the whole thing, but she seemed to understand it was a meteorite before most other people....

The home of the lost meteoroid was buzzing with media ever since the moment the Ponderosa Fire Department received confirmation the...	Everytime I walk past bottle brush plants in bloom, I feel that I must stop and stare....	Masai Giraffe or Giraffa Camelopardalis Tippelskirchi are the world's tallest species. They can be up to 19-feet tall...

This painting is called Sniper in the Bushes by Timothy Courtney. It's a night illustration with a nice atmosphere and many blues...	Among the NASA and Rice University faculty at the scene was the man with the cowboy hat on, Dr Marc Fries...	This painting is Downtown City Buildings at Night, inspired by many nights spent walking around in Houston...

Hurricane Beryl was a category five hurricane that hit Texas. It caused widespread damage. This sign is falling apart but hanging on by cables...	Colorful Teepees at Sunset in an Indian Reservation is a painting showing the unique style of handcrafted tipi dwellings...	This Cheetah or acinonyx jubatus is amazingly spotted. Cheetahs each have their own unique set of black spots on their fur....

This is Charlie an old female Zebra at the Houston zoo. She enjoyed trotting around with bigger animals all days. Charlie lived there since...	This is the Houston Texas Temple on Champion Forest drive. Construction of this church was completed in...	This extremely tall skyscraper is Willams Tower at Post Oak Blvd in the uptown Galleria. It's 909-feet tall and...

Sherrie James explained how the whole thing happened, and pointed to where the meteorite came down at such speed through her roof...	On this side of the meteorite which is scorched from when it was on fire, you can see the burnt crust over a rock indentation...	A falling and flaming meteorite weighing nearly a ton split apart above the Houston area, and a large chunk pierced the roof of this Texas home and landed inside...

In this patriotic neighborhood, the street is filled with flying American flags. It had been windy and they really were flying well...	Adventure Map is an illustration where each circle is for a game level. I liked it so much that I continuously worked on it for years after. Inspired by treasure maps I used to imagine...	This talented bagpipe musician performs Renaissance era music for the public. This is at the Texas Renaissance festival...

This is the Palisade Palms resort at East Beach, in Galveston Texas. The resort was built in...	This painting is called The Road Warrior Dream by Timothy Courtney, inspired by an actual dream...	This is construction just north of Houston, at the Oakridge high school addition in Conroe isd...

This is a Patas Monkey, sitting and resting in a beautiful grassland habitat. These monkeys can run up to 30mph, making them the world's fastest primates...	This famous Houston mansion is the home of Lakewood preacher Joel Osteen, one of the world's most well known televangelists...	I built this motorcycle from a crate full of parts. It was a great experience and very satisfying when it was done...

This is a painting of animal fur prints for the jaguar, zebra, and tiger. There's so much variety in the species of the world...	This Chimpanzee is knuckle-walking through a grassland. Chimpanzees are capable of walking on their two legs but prefer to walk on all four...	This is Lake Paloma at Creekside. It's surrounded by beautiful Holly, Italian and Bald Cypress trees, Olive trees, and Mondo...

Ponderosa Forest is a sprawling neighborhood nestled in northwest Houston, and is where a historic meteorite fell from space and entered a home through the roof...	Dr. Neeraja Chinchalkar and Rice University science professor Bidong Zhang discuss Houston meteorite fall...	Lucas the Game was featured in 'The Psychic Pixel Party Bundle', alongside titles like 'Synonymy' [narrated by Richard Dawkins], 'Sword of the Samurai', and 'Pixel Poetry' [Indie Game Documentary]...

mandatory selfie...	Patty Bear died at the age of 31 in the Houston Zoo where she spent most of her happy long life. She was the oldest known Andean Bear...	funny closeup...

Rothwood park in Spring...	This is Pretty Satellites, which is a fantasy landscape painting...	Building inspectors visit the construction site of Oakridge high school near David Memorial and I45...

This is Chapel in the Woods, located in the Woodlands Texas. This is a beautiful spot for private weddings...	shatterproof glass broken...	This is three video game covers by Timothy Courtney for independent games, including Space Ace Assassin, Lucas the Game, and Ghost of Greta...

The canyons is a painting inspired by a book I read many years ago, of deep wonderous canyons and tough wildlife in a harsh environment...	Nasa scientist Marc Fries leads Professor Bidong Zhang and Neeraja Chinchalkar, to contact meteorite owner Sherrie James for a research slice...	Don't go in the woods alone is a painting of an eerie and ominous wooded pathway...

Tour buses are all parked in a line alongside Macy's at the Galleria Mall in Houston...	Galveston is a landscape painting inspired by many Summers spent at the beach overlooking the Gulf waters...	This striking Leopard or panthera pardus rests in an amazing rock habitat on wood chips and dirt. Leopards are in the panther family...

Just behind those trees south of Rayford & Sawdust Rd, Exxonmobil started headquarters construction...	This is the amazing Arctic Wolf. Some people call them Polar wolves but they actually can exist in warm regions too. They feel mythic until you see one. They must have old souls...	This was an album cover experiment on the steps of a very old train. It was a somewhat cool day and the photo captured a nice atmosphere....

This is Ponderosa Park which was searched by Nasa and Rice University scientists looking for meteorites from the Houston hammerfall...	Texas has many buildings for the oil business. This is the Marathon Oil Tower on San Felipe. It's 562 feet tall, the 20th tallest Houston bldg, and has 41 floors. Glass panels like this are very reflective...	cute kittens...

Pundt park at Spring Creek...	Isuzu npr dump truck...	You can see the grand main entrance to the ExxonMobil headquarters campus in Springwoods Village...

This photo shows the bridge in use at the grand main entrance to the new ExxonMobil campus...	Fabrice Champagnac who was very close by when a meteorite landed answers questions...	De Brazzas monkeys are in the Old World Monkeys family. They're closely related to the apes of 25+ million years ago...

Just down the road from the meteorite hammerfall is this beautiful walking park, where people were enjoying being outdoors on this day...	Rapid waters is a painting of a somewhat dark and dangerous forest which seems endless and its lifeline is the rapid moving waters...	Sherrie showed me the damage the spacerock sustained on roof entry. There were scratch marks and dings on the burnt outer layer called the fusion crust...

firepit burn...	The back of St Luke's Hospital of the Woodlands sits at the corner of 242 and interstate 45. It's a sprawling hospital with views of the water end to end...	abandoned Kroger...

Cyber is an animated Gif, dark with green matrix like letters and numbers flashing, inspired by a matrix future where we're all digitized beings...	I was talking to another artist the other day, and he referred to those big Texas birds, and I realized he was talking about the Turkey Vulture. Technically he was right, because I've seen them all over the place...	Pond in Fall is a painting of a beautiful landscape full of Fall colors lighting up a waterfall, which is flowing into a pond...

This well-built wooden handmand bridge leads across a drainage area. It's a walkway created that goes out to a hilly open field. It's a great place to think...	This painting is Bee With a Key by Timothy Courtney, inspired by many favorite elements of video games ever since childhood...	Williams Tower on Post Oak is 64 stories high and averages 14-feet per level in height. It's not the tallest building in Houston though, because...

This Galápagos Tortoise suddenly decided to take a stroll through this field. They can weigh up to 600lbs so you don't want to put your feet under one...	This is St Luke's Health the Woodlands Hospital near I-45, north of Houston. It has gone through many construction cycles...	This curved building with concrete columns and a massive outdoor patio is the back of St. Luke's Lakeside Hospital...

This is City Place park on Lake Plaza in Spring. The whole area has great walkability...	This is a closeup of a 1961 AMC Rambler with a nice paint job. The AMC Rambler was part of the big metal cars with large engines era...	This painting is Highway Vulture Before a Rain Storm, inspired by life in Texas...

This striking looking snake is the Royal Python. Depending on your region, you may know it as the Ball Python...	Lucas the Game is an action platformer for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Play as Lucas, a crying lovable spy, on a one of a kind adventure...	Love standing in front of red curtains. Red curtains are underrated, except in theatres...

This is early 2011, when Exxonmobil's construction company had just cleared a long winding road...	The lead construction managers were meeting with Exxonmobil representatives and local inspectors to talk about the project...	This is the historic former residence of Julius H. Ruhl, on Sealy Avenue in Galveston, built in 1875...

It's beautiful the way these Galveston mansions, the landscaping, and this very old gargoyle at Bishop's Palace come together...	This is Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital's East Tower being built in Shenandoah, just south of The Woodlands...	A visionary said she had apparitions of the Texas Chainsaw...

Developer of Card Hunter & Captain Forever, Jarrad Farbs Woods interview with Timothy Courtney...	Developer of Else Heart Break & Blueberry Garden, Erik Svedang interview with Timothy Courtney...	Co-creator of Hotline Miami and Keyboard Drumset Werewolf, Dennis Wedin interview with Timothy Courtney...

Game Talk by Timothy Courtney presents: interview with the developer of Celeste and Skytorn, Noel Berry...	Developer of games like Canabalt and Overland, Adam Saltsman interview with Timothy Courtney...	Designer of games like Mark of the Ninja and Firewatch, Nels Anderson interview with Timothy Courtney...

Timothy Courtney's Game Talk interview with ModDB and IndieDB founder Scott Reismanis aka INtense...	Game artist for Not a Hero, Jake Hollands interview with Timothy Courtney...	Developer of games like Hotline Miami & Norrland, Jonatan Cactus Soderstrom interview with Timothy Courtney...

Developer of I Wish I Were the Moon and Today I Die, Daniel Benmergui interview with Timothy Courtney...	Artist for games like Hotline Miami and Else Heart Break, Niklas Akerblad interview with Timothy Courtney...	Composer of Games Like Fez & Shoot Many Robots, Rich Vreeland interview with Timothy Courtney...

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