drupal 7 frontpage image scroller: getting image URL in overwritten view template?
here two alternatives to get the image address:
(to both examples the machine name of the image field is *image_test_field*).

1) this example is using the $row offer by view template (in this case the name of the field was obtained using dsm($row) or print_r($row)):

  $uriImagefromView = $row-&gt;field_field_image_test_field[0]['rendered']['#item']['uri'];
  $urlImagefromView = file_create_url($uriImagefromView);
  // $urlImagefromView variable now has the path to the image


2) this example is loading the data from entity_load  (in this case the name of the field was obtained using dsm($entity) or print_r($entity)):

  $nid = $row-&gt;nid;
  $entity = entity_load('node', array($nid));
  $uriImagefromNode = $entity[$nid]-&gt;field_image_test_field['und'][0]['uri'];
  $urlImagefromNode = file_create_url($uriImagefromNode);
  // $urlImagefromNode variable now has the path to the image


I hope this information be useful.