The Hilliard Photographics Group: Blog

We finally were able to get the electronic files from Custom Wood Homes for one of my favorite houses ever, The Hinoki House.

Beautiful Asian inspired design.  We never got to meet the owner, but he was gracious enough to get us the keys and told us to stay as long as we liked to enjoy the house and get all of the photos we needed.  He even sent a crew over to clean up the property before we arrived and put away all of the construction materials from a walkway and fence they were working on.

It is located in western North Carolina. View the feature article here.

This image of a log home in Georgia just placed in the top 5 of the Professional Photographers of America cover competition.  Each photographer was allowed to submit 1 image and there were over 5000 entries.  That puts us in the top 1/10 of 1% of the professional photographers that submitted images.

We are very excited to be included and the image will be featured with a story in the November 2009 issue of Professional Photographer magazine.

“An incredible architectural shot.  It’s twilight, yet the maker captured everything.  He deserves a lot of credit for the exposure and execution of this image.  It’s inviting.  I want to be there.  I feel like I can touch and feel everything in the image.” - Helen Yancy, Professional Photographers of America juror, International Print Competition.

We did this photo last week to illustrate a story on train awareness.