Can I use a photo as the color for my text swatches

I want to create a set of letters (Lake in Wood Camping Resort) that use a photo of the campground as their swatch, instead of a solid color. Can I do this? If yes, how? I am a novice at INDESIGN so need all the help I can get.
My thought would be to place text over the photo, using a large open font, that only shows stroke, no color in the swatch. So you could "see thru the Letters into the campground) then, delete the photo but still have the font contain the colors of the photo. Am I dreaming or is this possible? I have fiddled around with it but to no avail. Thanks for any advice, recommendations, Cathy

There was a good discussion about this in ID forum
1. Place image
2. Draw white box to cover image
3. Place text on top
4. Set opacity of text (effects panel) to 0. Text dissapears
5. Group with white box from step 2
6. With group selected choose Knock Out Group (effects panel)
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