Archive for the 'humor' Category

An Open Letter To Canon: Everything You Need Is Not In The Box!

October 5th, 2011

Charlotte Rosato-Alessi sent me this humorous video yesterday. Charlotte said: This past week I was shooting a home for a realtor. It was the homeowner that insisted on a professional and while I was shooting the home the realtor announced to the homeowner that she just purchased her own DSLR so she could take these [...]

Battle At F-Stop Ridge

September 15th, 2011

Good $14M Entry-Level Home In Beverly Hills

August 24th, 2011

Estella Sneider, a real estate photographer who works the Beverly Hills area sent me this link recently to the Wall Street Journal article that she got on a listing that she shot in the Beverly Park neighborhood. You’ll have to forgive me for listing this post in the Humor category. But there is just too [...]

A New Video From The Rockstars of Australian Gold Coast Property Video

July 16th, 2011

For regular readers this video needs no introduction, but for those new readers or those of you that may have missed their earlier videos (this one, and this one) that PlatinumHD.tv did for Neo Property. A little back story may help appreciate this video. Adrian Jenkins (the boss in the white coat) and Ian Adams of [...]

Have I Told You Lately How Much I Love My Villa?

June 23rd, 2011

Amazon Apologizes for Pfretour.com and PFRE eBook Download Problems

April 29th, 2011

From the HuffingtonPost: It’s been more than a week after Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service went down, taking sites like Reddit, Quora and Foursquare with it. Amazon is finally issuing an apology and in-depth explanation on how and why the cloud service failed so spectacularly. Read the whole article here. This was the same outage that [...]

Every Home In Brisbane is Now Waterfront!

January 18th, 2011

Brett Clements points out that Brisbane, Australia has a bunch more waterfront property than it did just a few weeks ago. This Platinum HD video promotes Mark Creevey and Tony Williams who specialize in dealing with conditions in a down market. I suspect that they’ll be popular agents in Brisbane for a while. I can’t [...]

I’m In Love With My New Solid State Drive

December 27th, 2010

Back in November I gave my backup MacBook Pro to a up an coming young 11 year old photographer friend that wants to learn video and photo editing. Since I don’t like to be without a backup machine I bought a new iMac. When purchasing the iMac on the Apple site the configuration panel now [...]

Some Agents Are More Capable Of Narration Than Others

October 31st, 2010

Some agents are more capable of narrating their property videos than others. An then there is Stuart Darcy of Ray White, in Mermaid Beach, Queensland, Australia. Stuart doesn’t just narrate his property video, he gives an award winning vocal performance. Stuart recorded the sound track for this property video of his listing at 3 Gallieo [...]

Same Cloud Pattern Photographed Over Seattle, Bay Area, San Diego and Portland

October 2nd, 2010

Thanks to PFRE blog reader Julie Mannell for pointing out this interesting post on the Seattlebubble.com/blog last week by Tim Ellis pointing out that this very same cloud pattern was photographed by real estate photographers over Seattle, the Bay area, San Diego and Portland. First of all why would anyone replace skys in Seattle? Everyone knows [...]