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Listing Pictures When It Is Raining - What To Do I spent another rainy day working on my photography and the thought occured to me, "What do you do when you get the listing and need the photographs to post online?" Instead of trying to take the front of the house, stage something that protrays th...

Marvelous Monday! This will be a quick photo comparison post. It shows two pictures taken from two different perspectives. It is a table setting, not a house, but the concept is clearly demonstrated. It's all about angles and distance from your subject. In September, I was in Miami working on the...

Serious Sunday Sometimes It All Just Clicks Sometimes the picture we take isn’t quite right. For a long time now I have wanted to become proficient with Aperture and the wonderful features it has available for enhancing, fixing or simply making the picture better. I titled this post “Serious Sund...

Super Saturday, 12/1/12.... Today marks the beginning of the new direction for Catherine Cornelia Real Estate.  Photography is the critical element in real estate marketing, this picture is an example of good composition. You get a sense of how the home sits on the lot, a feeling for the landsca...

Fabulous Friday Fabulous Friday; November 30; Announcement Day! I am ready to announce the new direction Catherine Cornelia Real Estate will take - I am going to specialize in real estate photography. For those agents that want to “take their own pictures” I am offering classes. They will be affo...

Multi-tasking - It’s Not The Best Use of Your Time We have been led to believe there is virtue in multi-tasking and that women are much better at it than men. The truth of the matter is multi-tasking shifts your focus. Instead of concentrating on one thing and getting it done, you are pulled in m...

Interlaken Gardens Whitehall Road, Eastchester, NY Here is the first post in the series The Street Where You Live. I am starting with the streets in Interlaken Gardens, a beautiful garden style cooperative apartment complex located in Eastchester, NY just 30 minutes from Grand Central Station.  ...

This is a wonderful reminder about seniors alone. The focus is on holidays but in the new assisted living facilities, it can be lonely any time. Imagine living in a building where the one thing you have in common is your age and very little else.   My mother lives in a retirement community called...

The question to ask, "is that your final and best price?" is priceless. The hard part is keeping quiet until they answer. In addition to letting them know you are talking with other contractors, impart a 'time is of the essence' factor with them. Letting any contractor believe that you have all t...

Holiday train show New York botanical garden What a wonderful way to celebrate the holidays. This annual event is sure to delight young and old alike. Located in The Bronx, the New York Botanical Garden is easy to reach by car or train making this an ideal adventure for the kid (or the kid at hea...