Photoblogging

Sometimes a head-on shot of the exterior front of a house isn’t the best way to showcase what the home has to offer.

2 story head on

Sometimes you should take a picture from an angle you’d never normally use.

2 story from side

That’s the same house and the two pictures were taken within about 60 seconds of each other. You’d hardly even know it. While it’s a very unusual angle for a real estate “front” photo, I’d argue that picture number 2 is the better way to showcase this home.

thoughts?


heather

Heather Barr is a Realtor. She's a chow hound, a gym rat, and a political junkie and a happy workaholic.

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“Amare” for the home team

by Chris Butterworth on August 30, 2010

in Op Ed,Photoblogging

Professional sports ain’t what they used to be, what with free agency and all..

You want to get behind the home teams, and you want to love the home players, but those players seem to come & go every year.  So I root for the teams, and when I have to buy something player-specific (like a #11 Fitz jersey for a 6-year old at Christmas), I gravitate towards players who are “good guys” and who I think will be in Phoenix for a long time.

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The guy in front of me yesterday had to be disappointed this summer, since he’s now supporting the New York Knicks’ top player…

Your has never gotten all the way behind free agency Realtor,

Chris Butterworth


chris

Chris Butterworth spends more time analyzing statistics and reading economic reports than is healthy. He's also a husband, father, writer, and amateur photographer. In his spare time he trained for and competed in his first triathlon.

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Moving Stills 97 – Summer Shade

by Chris Butterworth August 24, 2010 Photoblogging

The Fry’s grocery store at Tatum & Shea installed shade covers in their parking lot last week – a great solution to the Parking Lot Shade Tree question I posed last summer.  It still leaves me with 3 unanswered questions: 1. Is this a competitive advantage?  In other words, would you drive a little further [...]

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All about the Phoenix monsoon

by Heather August 4, 2010 Glossary Posts

This is a reprint of a post from summer 2009. When I was a kid and we moved here in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the knee-jerk reaction answer to “When’s the monsoon?” was “August”. With the heat island effect, it seems like the monsoon arrives earlier and lasts longer each year. In 2008, [...]

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the heat sneaks up on you

by Chris Butterworth August 3, 2010 Op Ed

This morning was beautiful – absolutely beautiful.  I took advantage of the nice weather & grabbed a seat on the patio at Paradise Bakery this morning.  Did I mention it was 5:45 am?  That might have something to do with the almost cool temperature.. By 7:00 I noticed it was getting a little warm, but [...]

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Got Lead Based Paint?

by Chris Butterworth July 27, 2010 Photoblogging

We stumbled across this beauty the other day – it’s a bank-owned REO listing, built in the early 1970s, and it doesn’t look like the prior owners had updated anything since the first few years they were there! But here’s the catch:  most buyers (almost all buyers) in this price range are going to either [...]

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Moving Stills 96 – Remodeling at Arizona Biltmore

by Chris Butterworth July 15, 2010 Photoblogging

I drove through the Biltmore parking lot this week and had to do a double-take (and then a triple-take!)  You don’t usually see Piestawa Peak nestled between Sam’s Cafe and Steamers! You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial post in [...]

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Moving Stills 95 – Quitter’s Hill

by Chris Butterworth July 2, 2010 Photoblogging

Wide lanes, smooth asphalt, sparse traffic, and a 105-foot vertical gain make this four-tenths of a mile stretch of Tierra Del Rio Blvd a great place to train.  Located about a mile north of the intersection of 107th Ave and Happy Valley Rd, I biked and ran this hill about 100 times this spring while [...]

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Moving Stills 94 – Flagstaff Wild Fire

by Chris Butterworth June 21, 2010 Photoblogging

Yesterday my family was driving across Northeastern Arizona towards Flagstaff.  We could see this plume of smoke from 75 miles east on I-40, and stopped at Little America for a chance to stretch our legs and take a couple pictures (and smell the charred forest…) You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post [...]

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Moving Stills 93 – Reflection in SCF Tower

by Chris Butterworth May 18, 2010 Photoblogging

A great reflection off the SCF Tower at 2nd Street & Earll Dr. You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial post in the series – Moving Stills 1. You can see a map of all my Moving Stills photos here. [...]

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Peoria’s new Beardsley Connector offramp

by Chris Butterworth May 14, 2010 Op Ed

There’s a lot of construction in Phoenix.  I guess this is probably true in most cities – maybe it’s just a fact of life, that they’re always building things, and then breaking them down to make them bigger. Sometimes the construction is because the city is growing; other times it’s because they’re trying to make [...]

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Moving Stills 92 – Echo Coffee

by Chris Butterworth May 12, 2010 Photoblogging

Echo Coffee – a brand new coffee house on the corner of 68th Street & Thomas Road.  I’ll post a full review soon, but here’s the short version:  This is a GREAT cafe in a location that badly needed one! Here is a map of all the Moving Stills’ locations. You can read the rules [...]

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