Photography For Real Estate

In Seattle, each night during the Christmas season a large Yacht with carolers (the Christmas ship) visit various public beaches around Lake Washington. Seattle boaters decorate their boats with lights and follow the Christmas ship to join in the festivities.

I want to point out a few differences here in PFRE’s new home. As I said before the main motivation for the move was added flexibility. There were a lot of things I couldn’t do back at the old blog… like the Feedburner subscription sign up box on the upper right side. With the blog [...]

Ken Bui from Realivent.com and I were talking about a post I did recently over at geekestateblog.com on large image slide shows. As a result Ken showed me how he could turn my monoslideshow for into a more fully featured property site by using the free property site features that the Real Estate Marketing Platform [...]

Cherie Irwin pointed out an article on MSN real estate by Dana Mattioli of the wsj.com. The tips are not new to readers of this blog but I like the quotes from buyers that these kind of articles. Also the catch phrases that reporters come up with are interesting. “pix appeal” and “online appeal” are [...]

Please excuse my off-topic post but I just got back from a great week of Kayaking on the lower Columbia river and wanted to pass on some info on this little known but great location to the several readers that expressed interest in Kayaking the lower Columbia. Skamokawa, WA is a sleepy little town in [...]

Starting tomorrow (Sun 9/9) I’ll be “off the grid” for a week (until Sun 9/16). We are participating in a kayaking adventure based a Skamokawa on the lower Columbia river. We’ll be retracing some part (the easy part) of the Lewis & Clark expedition via kayaks. As my son says, “dodging the wakes of container [...]

About 6 months ago I switched from using Outlook to using Gmail. I also moved many of the files that I use for maintaining this blog to Gmail documents which allows one to keep online versions of spreadsheets and Word like documents. In particular I keep the Real Estate Photographer Directory as a online Google [...]

This weeks Flickr posting theme is challenging shoots. Challenging situations can be learning situations.
The photo above is easily the most challenging listing we’ve ever had. We were selling it for a personal friend otherwise we’d probably never taken this listing. This little home was built in 1904 and had two wild and crazy renters living [...]

Sorry about the interruption! In the process of implementing a new domain name photographyforrealestate.net I got some name server pointers mess up and the blog has been inaccessible since about  2:00 PM  PST yesterday (May 14th). I’ve learned more than I want to know about name servers in the last 12 hours.
Everything should work the [...]

Photography for Real Estate blog is starting it’s 3rd year of publication tomorrow. For the first year I posted very irregularly but this last year I’ve been posting more regularly. This is the 201st post. Readership has reached an average of around 1500 unique readers per week.
I want to thank all the readers of this [...]

I frequently get requests for recommendations for real estate photographers from Realtors. Also, I know real estate photographers are interested in knowing what other real estate photographers around the world are doing. So to fill this need I’ve decided to do a real estate photographer directory. If you’re a real estate photographer and would like [...]

I was surfing around this morning and ran across a delighful series of articles on architectural photography at about.com . These articles give interesting background and history to the subject of photographing buildings as well as and links to work by some of the greats in this field link Ezra Stoller and Julius Schulman.
Even though [...]