Today, I had a chance to talk to Jon Paul, a Realtor with Realty World Lake Tahoe who just joined ActiveRain and is looking for ways to grow his relatively new real estate career.
What motivated me to reach out to Jon, though, had to do with his first post - My First ActiveRain Blog Post. Jon is a nature photographer, but certainly not an ordinary one. He uses large format cameras and actual film, a labor of painstaking love that results in extremely fine detail, as can be seen by the photo included in his first post. He approaches photography as an artform, looking for ways to express his creativity, and his artistic talent and skill served him well during the 12 years he owned his own gallery. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of his work.
One of the things about Jon's first post that I particularly liked was the way he tied his photography to his real estate career - it's an elegant and unique branding statement.
Jon and I talked a bit about our different approaches to photography - large format cameras and film, the darkroom and the development process are a different universe than the world of digital SLR's and Photoshop. But perhaps there is a connection in what we are trying to accomplish, and it was a fun and interesting conversation. Jon is going to be a great addition to those of us who here with an interest in photography.
Please check out Jon's first post when you get a chance and welcome him to the neighborhood.
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