Real estate photography of Crystal Beach rental home--

Most of what I advertise for my business is geared toward families and couples: engagement, maternity, newborn, children, high school seniors and family portraits, and event photography related to one of the above.

But, I am available for other types of portraits and photography. I don't advertise it as much, because of a lot of the pricing is very specific to that individual project, so advertising a specific price wouldn't do much good. 

Recently I was asked to take photos of a beach house in Crystal Beach (near Galveston Island) to be displayed on a rental site. I picked a day when the beach house would be empty. Apparently this house is pretty popular, because there was only one week day available the month I planned to shoot. I gathered my gear, my younger cousin and she and I headed down to the beach for a little work and a little play.

Once I arrived at the beach house and noticed the pristine condition of this little gem, I realized why it was rented out solid for the next month or two. Check out the video and it may be your next vacation spot of choice.

My younger cousin sat back and relaxed while I got to work, photographing the house from top to bottom, inside and out.

On a side, but related note, this photo below is another example of some of the odd photography jobs that I can do, but don't usually advertise. The owner of this home had a 4X6 print of their daughter (when she was about 4 or so) feeding the seagulls Cheese-Its on the beach. They wanted a larger image for the beach house and asked if I could help. I told them that without the negative, blowing the photo up to more than an 8X10 probably wouldn't work, but I'd see what I could do. I scanned the image and began cleaning it up. I repaired a few scratches, touched up the color and removed power lines that were in the original photo. I knew a large print from a small scan would be grainy and pixelated. So I started playing with a few Photoshop effects. I added a "painted" look to the image and blowing it up large was no longer a problem. This is about 24X36-inch print made from an old 4X6-inch print.

Now, back to the house. Check out this kitchen!

And this lovely master bedroom and master bath.

This secondary bedroom has two double sized beds with plenty of space!

The third bedroom and hall bath are just as nice as the rest of the house!

And this is the view you get when you walk down to the beach...only about 50 yards from the front porch of the beach house, Captain Morgan's II.

After I was finished shooting photos and videos of the beach house, my cousin and I headed down for a little fun in the sun. Keep an eye out on the blog post for a few portraits I made of her while at the beach. Time to book those senior portraits and a few at the beach are always a nice touch!

If you want to rent the Captain Morgan's II for your next weekend trip out of the city, click the photo below for a direct link to the rental site. Just because school has started doesn't mean you can't book a trip. You know in the Houston area it will be warm out until October. Sometimes even winter beach trips are fun too...just a quiet weekend away from the traffic and stress of everyday life.

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