January 1st, 2009
The voting results are in and the new PFRE Idol contest winner for January 2009 is Michael Yearout, AKA extreme wide angle in the PFRE flickr group, of Breckenridge, Colorado. Congratulations Michael! Those of you that frequent the PFRE flickr group will recognize this as one of Michael’s distinctive images with the great Rocky Mountain [...]
December 31st, 2008
Just a reminder of the PFRE Idol voting going on: Vote for the current month’s 2008 PFRE Idol until midnight Dec 31 here. Here are this months images being voted on. Then, from Jan 1 through Jan 7 we’ll be voting the best PFRE Idol image from the 2008 PFRE Idols (including the one that [...]
December 27th, 2008
On December 31 the voting for this months PFRE Idol will be complete and the seventh PFRE Idol winner will be announced. During the first 7 days of 2009 voting will take place to choose which of those seven PFRE Idols will be the PFRE Idol of 2008. That’s right we’ll be voting for the [...]
December 1st, 2008
The voting results are in and the new PFRE Idol contest winner for December 2008 is Jon May, of Mt Coolum (just North of Brisbane), Queensland, Australia. There must be something special in the water around Brisbane. Jon is the second PFRE Idol in a row from Brisbane area. Congratulations Jon! Here is Jon’s story [...]
November 18th, 2008
Voting is currently in progress for this months PFRE Idol. See the photos here and vote here until December 1. I also want to thank the sponsors cpgtours.com and iPropertyWebsites.com and Michael Asgian for their generous support of the PFRE Idol contest. I noticed that the other Idol contest (American Idol) selected a winner this [...]
November 1st, 2008
The voting results are in and the new PFRE Idol contest winner for this month is Linda Mandy, of Forest Lake, Queensland, Australia. I love Linda’s winning photo above. This kind of interior shot done at twilight with distant views is one of my favorite kinds of shots. Congratulations Linda! To see more shots of [...]
October 14th, 2008
This months PFRE Idol entries contest entries are ready for your voting. Another set of great real estate images! For a full screen slide show of these entries click here. To recap the voting procedure, to vote you need to register here. If you registered to vote any previous month you don’t have to register [...]
October 2nd, 2008
Congratulations to Wayne Capili, of Monterey, CA, who has won the October PFRE Idol voting. Wayne’s photo above is a stunning piece of work. This months photos was an outstanding set of images, to be chosen the winner in this set of images is a real distinction. Wayne describes his real estate photography business in [...]
September 15th, 2008
This months PFRE Idol entries contest entries are ready for voting. Another set of great real estate images! For a full screen slide show of these entries click here. To recap the voting procedure, to vote you need to register here. If you registered to vote last month you don’t have to register again, just [...]
September 1st, 2008
The PFRE Idol voting results are in and Linda Sabiston, of Sunshine Coast, BC (flickr handle: Coastalpics ) is the winner of this months PFRE Idol contest. Congratulations Linda! This is indeed a very special image! I has a combination of soft, even lighting inside and nicely exposed windows. Linda said she knew this image [...]
August 30th, 2008
Just a reminder that tomorrow (Sunday, August 31) voting ends for this months PFRE Idol. This is a great exercise in critical evaluation of real estate marketing photos. Remember when voting these are marketing photos. Also, it’s the photographers skills we are evaluating, not the property. Here is the info you need to vote: This [...]
August 7th, 2008
Phil Scott of New Canaan, CT is the second winner of the PFRE Idol award for this month. The photo above is Phil’s front-shot that he submitted for the contest. For a front-shot it think it is a particularly striking image. It helps that this property is a striking property elevated above the surroundings but I [...]
August 6th, 2008
In the first PFRE Idol contest two contestants tied for first place. One of the winners was Tyra Pacheco. Those of you that frequent the PFRE flickr photo discussion group will recognize Tyra’s work and notice how much her work has improved over the last year. This is Tyra’s kitchen shot that she submitted to [...]
August 3rd, 2008
Michael Cole of CPGtours.com yesterday agreed to sponsor the PFRE Idol Contest by providing each PFRE Idol with 5 free tours on CPGtours.com (a $100 value). Thanks Michael for your support! Also, thanks to Michael Asgian for volunteering his time to create the pages/code that will allow us to make the contest contestants anonymous, allow [...]
August 1st, 2008
We have two winners- tlpacheco (Tyra Pacheco) and pwscott61 (Phillip Scott) each with 17 votes. The images in the contest are on this flickr discussion thread. Congradulations to Tyra and Phillip. More on Tyra and Phillips work in a future post.
July 29th, 2008
It’s time to vote for this months PFRE Idol. To vote use the Polldaddy poll at the bottom of the right side-bar. To look at the four contestants contest entries see this flickr discussion thread. The voting will be open until Aug 1 (I’ll take down the poll when I get up Friday 8/1 around [...]
July 7th, 2008
Think you have enough talent to be the next PFRE Idol? Now’s your chance to prove it! Check out details here. With the help and advice of many readers and PFRE flickr group members I’ve changed the photographer of the month award selection process to remove some of the objections to the last process. Thanks [...]
