Photo by Frank Gasteiger

Archive for July, 2009

Date: July 6th, 2009
Cate: Accommodation, Architecture, Commercial, Photo News

Marketing Your Way through a Recession

In a recession, consumers become value oriented and distributors are concerned about cash.
Maybe you own or manage a hotel, motel, B&B etc. and you have done everything you can do to marketing your business. You have paid a truck-load of money for placing ads in the travel guides and magazines, your website wasn’t cheap either and you wonder where you can save money… Of course, you can do the photography for your business yourself because everyone can take a photo.
Right…!?
So it might look like this photo a client presented on the website:

In a recession, consumers become value oriented and distributors are concerned about cash.

Maybe you own or manage a hotel, motel, B&B etc. and you have done everything you can do to marketing your business. You have paid a truck-load of money for placing ads in the travel guides and magazines, your website wasn’t cheap either and you wonder where you can save money.

Of course, you can do the photography for your business yourself because everyone can take a photo.
Right…!?
So it might look like this photo (the actual photo presented on a B&B website):

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To enhance the appearance of the room, we used ARRI lights to create the mood the luxury lodge deserves and the new photo looks now slightly different:

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Same room, same price for a night.
Now judge for yourself, where will the guest more likely stay ?

A photograph which I took recently for a B&B in Marlborough got chosen as the 2009/10 front cover for a prestigious travel guide.

Date: July 5th, 2009
Cate: Photo News, Wine

Grape Harvest 2009 – Marlborough

It’s been a grey, cold and rainy weekend. Not much going on outside so we kept the wood stove going and relished hot chocolate and cookies with our kids teenagers.
In the evening, when the aroma of warm mulled wine filled the kitchen, I thought I should finally upload some images of the grape harvest which I took for several wineries in Marlborough.
Enjoy…