Can you see yourself here?

I was?excited?to get a rush call to photograph this winterized cottage in Lombardy, Ontario for Ainsley.

Why?

In part it's because, as it is early April, there aren't any leaves on the trees so you can actually see the cottage from the water.?More significantly (again because it is April) it is the kick-off to "cottage photographing season" and?cottages represent an escape-the-city lifestyle filled with barbecues and playing/relaxing on the water during summer family gatherings.

The purpose of real estate photographs is to?show the technical (clean, staged accurate depiction of the building) and?to share the emotional?experience of the lifestyle - in this case, sitting on the dock (or in the enclosed porch) soaking in?the calm of the?lake.

Each property I get to photograph (be they offices, shopping centres, homes or manufacturing plants) needs the technical and the art joined together so the viewer can project themself into the scene.