Barbara, you will enjoy working with wide-angle lenses. There are some great tutorials on the KenRockwell.com website on shooting wide angle (and ultrawide lenses too).

Karen Anne, I do like the TourFactory virtual tours, like the one you described in your comment.  The black background with white serif script reversed out of the background looks elegant.  And the big screen format is an inviting way to take in a home tour.  RealBird does a nice job with their virtual tours, but TourFactory seems a bit better for luxury properties.  I've noticed that Debe Maxwell embeds a lot of TourFactory tours in her posts also.

Thanks for the reminder about Groups.  Sometimes I just plain forget to search my Groups list and select all the applicable ones.

Marcia, I was aware that there is a fairly large communty of Lake Minnetonka area (including Wayata) "snowbirds" in Naples.  Fun!  Thanks for your comment!

Iran, the challenges of staging a home in our northwest Wisconsin area (in a recreational community) would make a wonderful subject for a post.

Our Madeline Island office is, literally, on an Island in Lake Superior.  That water you see off your shoreline goes all the way around (grin).  We are over seventy-five miles from the nearest urban area (Duluth-Superior) and around 250 miles from Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.  To my knowledge there is not a home stager within an hour and a half drive (plus a half-hour ferry trip) of our locale. 

In addition to that, we encounter numerous other obstacles to staging a listing in a resort/recreational area.  Sometimes the home is occupied by a seller who is reluctant to alter their home in any way.  In other cases, the home may be rented in our Island "rental pool", meaning that the home is largely inaccessible, even for showings.  I have in some cases been forced to do a photo shoot in the span of under an hour, which requires much preparation and planning.  That is barely enough time to set up camera and tripod, adjust lighting and change lenses or filters.

When I have a listing in the Minneapolis & Saint Paul area, I have available a dizzying array of staging resources, which is a delight.  In the north country, we often find it necessary to perform miracles.