{"id":129,"date":"2007-08-21T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/129\/please-let-us-take-your-photos\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:28:30","slug":"please-let-us-take-your-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/129\/please-let-us-take-your-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, let us take your photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens more often than I&#8217;d like &#8211; I come across a photo of a property, taken by a Realtor, that just&#8230; well&#8230; could be soooo much better.<\/p>\n<p>If I had more time, maybe I&#8217;d start a collection of photos that shouldn&#8217;t have been used.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my two examples of the day. The heading of the first photo made me laugh: &#8220;Spacious Dining Area&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Spacious Dining Area\" alt=\"Spacious Dining Area\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/spacious-dining-area.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope the spacious dining area wasn&#8217;t too offended at my laugh &#8211; but it&#8217;s a photo of a window, and shows no spaciousness whatsoever!<\/p>\n<p>This next one was used as the main listing photo:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Main Listing Photo\" alt=\"Main Listing Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lead-shot.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like a picture of a doorway, doesn&#8217;t it? Could this really be the front of the property?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that these Realtors are excellent at their job. However, they aren&#8217;t photographers. I certainly wouldn&#8217;t want to buy or sell a property without a Realtor &#8211; why should a Realtor market their photos without hiring a professional?<\/p>\n<p>We have a very competitive <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/city\/vancouver\/priceList.htm\">Introductory Special<\/a> that should encourage all Realtors to try our services&#8230; unless they are afraid of getting a taste of something they&#8217;ll want to eat a lot of. Was it Pringles that advertised &#8220;you can&#8217;t eat just one&#8221;? I definitely stayed away from Pringles after that, knowing that they were probably right.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230; getting to my point. We&#8217;ve got the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/videos\/vancouver\/\">best Real Estate Photography and Video in Vancouver<\/a>. Try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens more often than I&#8217;d like &#8211; I come across a photo of a property, taken by a Realtor, that just&#8230; well&#8230; could be soooo much better. If I had more time, maybe I&#8217;d start a collection of photos that shouldn&#8217;t have been used. Here are my two examples of the day. The heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}