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Congratulations Alex Vincent! March 2024 PFRE Photographer of the Month

Congratulations Alex Vincent, March 2024 PFRE Photographer of the Month! The theme this month was "Kitchen". Alex Vincent - #906 Yvonne Raaijmakers - #909 Peter Wingfield - #902 Here's what Alex has to say: Thank you for the award of Photographer of th ...

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Congratulations To Travis Rowan - Winner Of Aug/Sep Property Video Contest

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04/10/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Travis Rowan, of Maui, HI, who has won the August/September property video of the month contest with his video at the right. Click the image to the right to watch the video. Also click the numbers listed below to see each video that the jury awarded points to. This is the second win in a row for Travis. He won the […]
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Congratulations Aaron Flores - PFRE Photographer Of The Month For September

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25/09/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Aaron Flores, Phoenix, AZ who has won the September Photographer of the month contest with his photo at the right. Click the image to the right to see a larger version of Aaron's image. Aaron is a second time PFRE photographer of the month. He won this same theme (Patio, Deck or Garden Space) last September! I […]

Congratulations Kate Benjamin August PFRE Photographer Of The Month

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23/08/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Kate Benjamin, Detroit MI, who has won this months Photographer of the month contest with her photo at the right. The jurors really liked Kate's image of this quaint old home. Click the image to see a larger version. This month, there were 48 great images! Many of them were extremely well executed. The competition is […]

Congratulations To Travis Rowan - July PFRE Videographer Of The Month

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02/08/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
The winner of the July video contest is Travis Rowan of Maui, HI. Juror Hamish Beeston's says: A lovely, classy film. Beautifully shot. Great light balance. Love the mix of wide angles and close-ups for textures / finishes, which real estate videos do so well. Also really good mix of slider and jib shots. My favourite shot […]

Congratulations To Ling Ge July PFRE Photographer Of The Month

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24/07/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Ling Ge of Irvine, CA, who has won this months Photographer of the month contest with his photo at the right. Click the image to see a larger version. Again this month, a bunch of great images! The competition is intense! Here is the jury’s voting results: 35 points, #10, Ling Ge - irvine, CA. 27 points, #15, Matt Harrer - St Louis, MO […]

Congratulations To Anders Carlson - June Videographer of The Month

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02/07/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
The winner of the June video contest is Anders Carlson of Kailua Kona, HI. Anders has the distinction of being the first person to win both the still contest (multiple times) and the video contest! Juror Hamish Beeston's comment was: Fantastic. Really like this one. Great mix of shots (lots of quality details and all verticals vertical!), […]

Congratulations Tony Colangelo - PFRE Photographer Of The Month For June

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24/06/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Tony Colangelo, Victoria BC, who won this months close still image contest. This is Tony's second win. He won this contest back in August of 2013. A lot of great images this month! The competition is getting very keen in this contest. This month the voting was much closer than it's been for a […]

Congratulations To PFRE Videographer for May - Hamish Beeston of Bristol, UK

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31/05/2014
By: Larry Lohrman
And the winner is Hamish Beeston of  Beeston Media, in Bristol, UK. Patrick Kerwick, one of the two video jurors this month said: I am absolutely astounded by the quality of work that was submitted this month, it was a pleasure just watching each of the videos for my own education as a fellow videographer. As you […]

Congratulations To Sebastian Erras May PFRE Photographer Of The Month

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23/05/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Sebastian Erras, Amberg, Germany, who captured the jurors attention with this image at the Bay of Saint-Tropez, France. There is a lot to be learned this month by looking through the contest entries and reading the discussion on the entrants photos. There was more discussion this month than there has been in the past. Studying […]

PFRE Videographer of the Month for April: Congratulations Patrick Kerwick!

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01/05/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
And the winner is Patrick Kerwick of  Vantage Photography, in Santa Fe, NM. Allan MacKenzie, my video judge said: I have to say mate was that was tough! Hawaii certainly is well represented with good talent and make the top 3 cut but just got taken at the finish line with the personal touch portrayed by the homeowners, they […]

Congratulations To Barry MacKenzie April PFRE Photographer Of The Month

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28/04/2014
By: Larry Lohrman
A bunch of great images this month. Congratulations to Barry MacKenzie capturing the jurors attention and winning by a significant margin. Here is the jury's voting results: 48 pts #25, Barry MacKenzie, London, ON 20 pts #41, Alasdair Mcintosh, York, UK 10 pts #49, Robert Ekins, Sydney, AU 9 pts #30, Dean Hales, Melbourne, AU 8 pts #27, […]

Congratulations Kate Benjamin PFRE Photographer Of The Month March 2014

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24/03/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Wow, that was a hard job deciding on a winner. Seventy-seven photos and a bunch of good ones. PFRE jury has chosen Kate Benjamin of Detroit, MI as the PFRE photographer of the month. To the right is Kate's winning photo. Click on it to view larger. Don't be discouraged if you got just a few […]

Congratulations Ryan Wicks PFRE Photographer Of The Month Feb 2014

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24/02/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
This month the PFRE jury has chosen Ryan Wicks of East Sussex, England as the PFRE photographer of the month. To the right is Ryan's winning photo. There was a big increase this month in commenting and favoriting the contest images. Thanks for everyone's participation. I think this level critical analysis and discussion is very […]

Congratulations To George Gutenberg - January PFRE Photographer Of The Month

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23/01/2014
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to George Gutenberg of Palm Springs, CA who is the PFRE photographer of the month for January. This month I had 36 amazing twilight images entered in the January contest. Both the readers (as indicated by the favorites feature on Flickr) and the jury agreed that George's image was the winner and Jonathan's was […]

Congratulations Ethan Tweedie - PFRE Photographer Of 2013

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23/12/2013
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Ethan Tweedie of the Big Island of HI the PFRE photographer of the year for 2013. Ethan's winning photograph is on the right. Click on it for a full size image. Here are the voting results: Ethan Tweedie - 37 Dan Ryan - 22 Aaron Flores - 20 Brandon Beechler - 17 […]

Congratulations Tony Colangelo PFRE Photographer Of The Month For August 2013

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26/08/2013
By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Tony Coangelo of Victoria, BC the PFRE photographer for August. Tony's winning photograph is on the right. Click on it to view a full size image. Here are the voting results: Tony Colangelo – 24 Cal Mitchener - 20 Jared Saulnier - 11 Conrad Rowe - 10 Saul Goodwin - 5 Sebastian Erras […]

Congratulations Ron Putnam July PFRE Photographer Of The Month

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23/07/2013
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Ron Putnam of Chico, CA the PFRE photographer for July. Ron's winning photograph is on the right. Click on it to view a full size image. Here are the voting results: Ron Putnam – 44 Don Miller - 23 Charles Lynch - 10 David Jones - 8 Chad Geauvreau - 4 Barry MacKenzie - 4 Jonathan […]

Congratulations To Ethan Tweedie PFRE Photographer For June

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24/06/2013
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Ethan Tweedie of the Big Island of HI the PFRE photographer for June. Ethan's winning photograph is on the right. Click on it for a full size image. Ethan is another second time winner. Here are the voting results: Ethan Tweedie - 40 Aaron Flores - 23 Barry MacKenzie - 13 Ash […]

Congratulations Jason Roehner February PFRE Photographer Of the Month

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25/02/2013
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Jason Roehner's photo of this Scottsdale, AZ property as the winner of the February contest. This month is Jason's second photographer of the month win. He won back in September 2012. Here is the voting results: Jason Roehner - 49 Ilona Berzups -19 Nestor Trillo - 16 Luke Phillips -12 David […]

Congratulations Dan Ryan PFRE Photographer of The Month January 2013

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24/01/2013
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has chosen Dan Ryan's twilight shot of a home in Madison, New Jersey as this month's winner. This was a difficult group to judge there were a record number of contestants (48) and there were a bunch of great twilight shots. Click here or on the photo to the right to view […]

Congratulations Iran Watson: 2012 Real Estate Photographer of The Year

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18/12/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations Iran! The PFRE jury has chosen Iran Watson's as the Real Estate Photographer of the year. Iran is a Realtor/Photographer in Marietta, Georgia. This was a very difficult task to pick a winner from the fantastic field of entrants! The voting results are as follows: Iran Watson - 40 Jason Roehner - 19 Charles Lynch - […]

Congratulations Charles Lynch: November PFRE Photographer of The Month

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26/11/2012
By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Charles Lynch's  photo of this elegant penthouse in Adelaide with a view of Adelaide's most prestigious beach as November's photo of the month. Here are this months voting results: Charles Lynch - 39 Elly Ball - 18 Paula Susi - 12 Jason Roehner - 10 Kerry Bern - 10 Thom Neese - 7 Matt Waclo […]

Congratulations Nestor Trillo - October PFRE Photographer of the Month

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24/10/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Nestor Trillo's elevated photo of Waikiki Beach, shot from the 23rd floor of Nauru Tower, this month's photo of the month. For those of you not familiar with Honolulu, that is Diamond Head in the distance and Ala Moana Beach Park on the lower right just up the road from Waikiki Yacht Club. […]

Congratulations Jason Roehner - PFRE Photographer of the Month for September

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24/09/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Jason Roehner's photo of this Scottsdale, AZ property in the golf community called Silverleaf in the McDowell Mountains. Jason's photo won by the largest point margin I can remember! Here is the voting results: Jason Roehner - 88 Scott Frederick -31 Chris Wood - 16 Andrea Calo -11 Ash Chynoweth - […]

Congratulations Craig Ryder - August PFRE Photographer of The Month

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27/08/2012
By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Craig Ryder's photo of this lake front estate in SW Michigan the winning photo for August. Craig shot this with his Nikon D800. It has a wonderful look and feel to it! Here is this whole shoot done with a D800. This month I had a record 32 images of daylight […]

Congratulations Peggy Taylor: FastPix Photography Services For Real Estate

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09/08/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
If you've been a PFRE reader and/or a PFRE Flickr group participant for the last few years you probably already know Peggy Taylor in Tampa, FL. I've featured Peggy several times in the last couple of years (and she has been an active participant in the PFRE Flickr group for several years. Yesterday I got […]

Congratulations Ethan Tweedie July PFRE Photographer of The Month

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24/07/2012
10 Comments
By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has voted Ethan Tweedie the July PFRE Photographer of the month. This month the voting was very close between Ethan's shot to the right and Steven Reed's amazing glass shower shot (#20). This was a fantastic bunch of master bath shots, many of the jurors remarked how difficult it was to choose […]

Congratulations Matt Waclo June PFRE Photographer of The Month

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25/06/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has chosen Matt Waclo of Reno, NV as the June PFRE Photographer of the month. The voting results are as follows: Matt Waclo - 37 Charles Lunch - 12 Michael Asgian - 12 Roberto Dangond - 11 Barry MacKenzie -10 Kai Caemmerer - 10 Ethan Tweedie - 8 Thom Neese - 4 Robert Frye […]

Congratulations To Anders Carlson May PFRE Photographer of the Month

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24/05/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has chosen Anders Carlson's interior shot with a view as the winner in the May PFRE photographer of the month competition. Anders is a photographer and videographer on the Big Island of Hawai'i. As you can see below Anders won by a large margin. The point results of the voting is as follows: […]

Congratulations to Iran Watson April PFRE Photographer of the Month

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23/04/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has chosen Iran Watson's master bedroom photo as the winner in the April photo competition. Iran is a Realtor/Photographer in Marietta, Georgia. Julia Mannell, of Seattle, WA was just one point behind Iran in the voting. The point results of the voting is as follows: Iran Watson 38 Julie Mannell 37 Tracy Boldery 18 […]

Congratulations to Steve Carroll March PFRE Photographer of the Month

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24/03/2012
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By: Larry Lohrman
The PFRE jury has chosen Steve Carroll's kitchen photo as the winner in the March kitchen photo competition. Steve's company PreviewFirst serves Orange County, San Diego County, and most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside County California. The point results of the voting is as follows: Steve Carroll           40 Brandon Beechler […]

Congratulations Nick De Clercq Feb 2012 PFRE Photographer of The Month

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29/02/2012
By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Nick De Clercq, of Ghent, Belgium for winning the jury voting for the February 2012 photographer of the month. About a month ago I featured Nick's story in a post. I now have all of the names of the eight finalists in the voting and to total jury points that they received posted in […]

Congratulations to PFRE Photographer of The Month For November: Briana Gray

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01/12/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
It's now December in Greenwich and Briana Gray has won the voting for the November PFRE photographer of the month! This is Briana's second win this year. She was PFRE photographer of the month for May.  I have a bunch of two time winners now, two of them this year. Here are Briana's comments on this […]

Congratulations Mike Leyland, Cairns AU PFRE Photographer of The Month October

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01/11/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
Halloween is over in Greenwich and Mike Leyland of Cairns AU has won the voting for the October PFRE photographer of the month. Notice that Mike won last month too! Mike is the third two time winner and the second photographer to win two consecutive months. Congratulations Mike! Mike says: Hats off to everyone who had a photo […]

Congratulations Mike Leyland, Cairns AU PFRE Photographer of The Month September

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01/10/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
It's now October UTC/GMT and Mike Leyland of Cairns AU has won the voting for the September PFRE photographer of the month. Mike says: The house was a nominee for the HIA (Housing Industry Association) awards and had pretty awesome views. The bath was one of the numerous places from where you had clear views […]

Congratulations to Linda Sabiston August PFRE Photographer of The Month

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01/09/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
It's now September 1 GMT so the voting for the August PFRE Photographer of the month is over. Congratulations to Linda Sabiston from the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, CA. This win makes Linda a two time winner of the PFRE photographer of the month because Linda won back in August of 2008 when I […]

Congratulations to Dave Rezendes July PFRE Photographer of The Month

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01/08/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
It's now August 1 in GMT so the voting for the July PFRE Photographer of the month is over. Congratulations to Dave Rezendes of Dave Rezendes Photography, Inc. of Honolulu, Hawai'i who was voted PFRE photographer of the month for July. Dave's stunning image is of a home in Honolulu designed by Long and Associates AIA, […]

Congratulations to Ron Kenny June PFRE Photographer of The Month

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01/07/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
It is now officially July in Greenwich, UK which means the PFRE Photographer of the Month voting for June is over. The winner for June 2011 is Ron Kenny who works the greater Seattle area. Ron was assisted by Chad Douglas of Puget Sound Aerial Imaging. Ron says, "this image is a joint effort between myself and […]

Congratulations to PFRE Photographer of The Month For May: Briana Gray

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01/06/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
It's now June 1 UTC/GMT, so I'd like to congratulate Briana Gray of San Diego, CA for her winning master bedroom image. Briana's image won the vote by six votes. There was a tie for second place between Ron Kenny and Chris Wood. Olin Redmon took third place. Briana says: For the last two years I have […]

Congratulations PFRE Photographer of The Month for April: Jasmine Mak

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02/05/2011
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By: Larry Lohrman
Congratulations to Jasmine Mak who won the voting in the PFRE Photographer of the month flickr group for April. Jasmine's image won the vote with 7 votes. There was a tie for second place between Scott Basile of San Diego and Lorenzo Vecchia of Barcelona. There was also a tie for third place between Eric Lucero, Matt Waclo. […]
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