The Collingview photos, as the house actually is.

The whole set was made across one late-summer day and into the evening, which is the reason the light holds together from the first frame to the last. The same visit produced the film. Nothing was brought in for the shoot and nothing was taken out of a room to make it photograph better.

Exposure and straightening aside, the images are as they came off the camera. There is no virtual staging on this site — no furniture added to an empty room, no fire lit in software, no sky replaced, no view dropped into a window. That is common enough in property photography to be worth stating rather than assuming, because it is exactly the difference a guest notices on arrival and never forgets.

Every file is processed through the build, which strips the camera metadata out of it. That is a privacy measure rather than a technical one: a photograph straight off a phone or a camera carries the GPS coordinates of where it was taken, and the street address of this house is not published.

There is no autumn photography, no winter photography and no spring photography. Every image on this site is from the same green week in late summer. The consequence is visible on the seasonal pages: the ski page and the fall page are illustrated with fires, interiors and architecture, because the alternative was to run a summer photograph under a heading about October and let you work it out on arrival.

There is also no room-by-room bed photography, for the same reason there is no bed configuration published on the house page: it has not been confirmed. A photograph of a made bed reads as a promise about how the house sleeps, and that is a promise that has to be checked before it is made.

Both of those are jobs with dates on them rather than permanent absences. When the autumn set exists it will replace the interiors on the fall page, and this paragraph will get shorter.