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You may have heard of Aviara Oaks Elementary and Middle Schools.  They're in the heart of Aviara, off Ambrosia, across from the gated community of Sanderling and the non-gated, but a bit more expensive, community of Serenata.  If you live in either of these communities, the schools are an easy wa...

We've been working on our HDR capabilities.  I went out and bought a shutter release so that I don't touch the camera to fire it.  That has seemed to help on avoiding the ghosting of some of my past attempts.  Here are some photos from the newest attempts to master this new technology.I think I'm...

As you know, my husband John and I practice real estate in Southern California, and we had distributed a flyer with recent sales activity in an Aviara, Carlsbad neighborhood.  I ended up getting subpoenaed for a trial relating to a sale in that neighborhood.  A NY Times writer contacted us and sp...

We got a call from one of the writers over at the San Diego Union Tribune today who was writing a story about foreclosures in San Diego County.  He needed some numbers about what percentage of homes in the MLS were REOs.  That got my husband John (some of us refer to him as MR. Metadata) to think...

Here's our newest listing that comes on the MLS later today.  The home is located at 506 Hillock Place, Encinitas.  The neighborhood is a great one - we know it well because we live in the neighborhood (about 400 yards from the home).How about that kitchen!  Here's the rest of the brochure....I r...

Here's a new aerial that I took of Fletcher Cover Park in Solana Beach.  This is a really nice park with awesome ocean views and path to the beach!I took this picture using our pole camera rig.  The one item that I thought became really obvious was the infinity symbol shape of the rubber tot lot ...

OK, this will be my last post on this high dynamic range photography stuff.  But I wanted to show you where I got to in about 24 hours.  The first picture is one of the exposures that I took of a pond in the middle of a condo community.  It's exposed for the mid-range of values.  I also exposed f...

Here's another test photo.  I had been struggling with taking a good photo of this home for a week.  The trees in front of the home proved to be obstructions that were to be dealt with only by avoiding them.  So I knocked on the neighbor's door and got permission to take photos from the neighbor'...

Boy have I been confused a bit about this High Dynamic Range merging stuff.  I've been reading my new book, "The HDRI Handbook," and I now am beginning to get a handle on why the HDR images can look so, so good.  But I thought I would share some of my confusion because I thought that maybe someon...

We just got done photographing a new listing, and I liked this photo so much, I thought I would share it with the group.  What I really liked about this photo was the degree to which the light was bouncing around in the room.  There are a lot of shiny surfaces, and they all help give definition t...