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One of the services that agents should provide to their clients is photography. Some perform this service, themselves; others hire professional photographers; while most perform this service, themselves – but should hire professionals, instead.

I enjoy photography, and joined a photography group last year here in Atlanta. They use Flickr as a means to communicate the groups conversations and show off their member’s works. Flickr (now owned by Yahoo!) is a huge group of photo enthusiasts where you can find pretty much any kind of like-minded photographers and their works imaginable.

One of the groups on Flickr is the Photography For Real Estate group of which I am a member. The group focuses on the challenges of real estate photography. Although most of the members are photographers who contract their services to agents – many are agents, themselves, learning to improve their skills.

You can set up an account on Flickr for free, which will allow you to upload and share photos with the world. That’s free – as in no cost. Nada. The big goose egg. There are some limitations to a free account, such as only being able to create three groups of photos… but a pro membership is just $30/year, should you desire.

As many of you are progressing into setting up your own blogs, you might be looking at different ways to insert images into a blog post. While Flickr does have the capability to compose code that you can use to insert images into your blog, a Swedish company called Admarket created an application called FlickrSLiDR, which takes a group of your Flickr photos and creates a slideshow for your blog.

It is easy to use… and the application delivers the goods. The viewer can mouse around to set the speed of the slideshow, pause it, or go to a particular image.

To help demonstrate this cool application, I have solicited the talents of famed photographer Scott Hargis, who is based in the Oakland California area. Scott is the most admired photographer in the Flickr Photography For Real Estate group, and his contributions there have been invaluable to real estate photographers from around the globe.

Here is a set of Scott’s work for your viewing pleasure:


Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.