None of what either of you keep saying makes the slightest dent in the validity of this photograph.
If you don't want to accept the Truth, that's a personal issue, but even if the observer were at TWO THOUSAND feet elevation, this image would NOT look like this on a Round Earth. You
still wouldn't see this much of the buildings due to their leaning away at
forty five miles distance; and they also wouldn't appear straight up and down like that either.
All this image proves...
...is that Venus is very visible
during the day time when THAT side of the Earth is toward the sun and Venus.
Look closely at the line that bisects the black Earth dot. That line demarcates the day/light side of Earth from the night/dark side. With that particular trajectory, shown by the dotted line, it is clear to see that Venus would only be visible just above the horizon at sundown. NOT at roughly 45 degrees, way up in the night sky, for hours after sundown.
And it doesn't matter if you want rock-solid proof of the 45 degree angle; anybody in the southern U.S. can simply look up into the sky for themselves tonight and see CLEARLY what I am claiming.
Absolutely ZERO proof needed here. They can go prove it to themselves.
So go ahead and create an image of the photograph like this one which has a flat plane surface...
...and make the ground curve, accurate to the proper dimensions in that area of Texas, and we can all put this one to rest.
Because it's Game, set, match and Checkmate when that is presented.