Category Archives: Images

What catches my eye.

Photo Challenge: Scale

Posted on February 7, 2015 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

This week we’ve been challenged to visualize scale by Michelle W. Let’s ponder size relationships. I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions about what that means! I first asked my Grandkitty Otis to assist. I can say that all … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Depth

Posted on January 30, 2015 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

This week we’ve been challenged to explore depth by Ben Huberman. Whether we relate to the word in a visual or emotional way it all seems relative. To an ant, a pebble may seem a mountain. Standing on Glacier Point … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

Posted on January 23, 2015 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

This week we’ve been challenged by Krista of WordPress to Express Yourself! Well, okay, I will add a picture. But to see how I really express myself I’ll ask you to check out how I express myself with numbers, too. … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Serenity

Posted on January 16, 2015 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

This week we’ve been challenged by Cheri Lucas Rowlands of WordPress to provide our interpretation of serenity. An image that invokes calmness or tranquility. I find it most simple to be at ease when visual stimulus is minimized. Not voided, … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Shadowed

Posted on January 9, 2015 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Depth can be created in a two-dimensional image. That’s why photographs are made, not taken. It can be created with a little lighting magic, in nature, or with the help of a little dodging and burning in Photoshop. Sometimes it … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: New

Posted on January 2, 2015 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Another New Year. It brings another set of challenges and opportunities. We are granted an unknown number of chances for renewal and redemption. Each day brings a fresh set of downs and the chance to put the last play out … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Warmth

Posted on December 27, 2014 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Living on the west side of the Bay Area four miles from the Pacific Ocean and about two miles from the San Francisco Bay the weather is pretty mild. Summer rarely gets real hot and when it does it only … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Yellow

Posted on December 19, 2014 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Yellow is that burst of color just before the dawn. The color of our breakfast meal just after a yawn. Yellow is the sound of buzzing circling a bloom. It can never ever be the color of gloom. Yellow makes … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Twinkle

Posted on December 12, 2014 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

My kids love the end-of-year holidaze. They spend eleven months looking forward to the celebrations, excitement, gift-receiving and general merriment. Can you blame them? When they are little they tolerate the pop of flash bulbs that document the year-end joy. … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Gone, But Not Forgotten

Posted on December 5, 2014 by JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Cemeteries are fascinating. I live nearby the Golden Gate National Cemetery on the San Francisco Peninsula and it is a place of beauty. Cemeteries are places of awe. It probably started before I can remember. I can imagine my mother … Continue reading →

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