Real estate photographer in the Wachau

A real estate photographer in the Wachau is a photographer who produces listing and marketing pictures of houses, flats, wine estates and holiday rentals in the valley – wide, straight interiors, exteriors in good light and details that explain what makes the property special. Much of what sells here is old: vaulted ground floors, courtyards, press houses and former monastery estates, such as the Nikolaihof in Mautern or the Göttweigerhof in Stein, that monasteries once used to run their vineyards.

That history has rules attached. The Wachau municipalities use a protection-zone programme, the Wachauzonen, developed by an expert group of the province with the support of the Federal Monuments Office. Buildings in historic centres are surveyed and placed in four categories – under monument protection, worth preserving, characteristic of the townscape, and other – with building rules for each. According to the World Heritage association, the zones apply in Dürnstein, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Mautern and Bergern im Dunkelsteinerwald, and Aggsbach-Markt, Krems and Spitz are preparing them. For a listing this means exteriors that show façade, roof and setting clearly, because a buyer planning changes will look at exactly those. A typical shoot of a house takes two to three hours; you receive corrected, HDR-blended images ready for portals and print.