Show the land, the barn and the house.

A shot list for acreage.

• The approach: the gate, the drive and the first view of the house.
• Barns and stables: aisle, stalls, tack and feed rooms, wash stall, hay storage.
• Riding: arenas, round pens and trails.
• Fencing and pasture: board, wire or electric, run-in sheds, water.
• Other buildings: equipment sheds, workshops, guest or tenant houses.
• From the air: the whole parcel in context, the tree lines, ponds, streams and neighboring land.

Hunt country, in season.

Fauquier, western Loudoun, Culpeper and Rappahannock look their best in late spring, when pastures are green, and in October, when the hills turn. Winter shoots show bones and views, but brown grass is real; we can enhance a lawn near the house, but we don't repaint pastures. If a listing has to go up in February, a drone flyover of the whole property often tells the story better than ground photos of dormant fields.

Drone on large parcels.

Most farm country in our area sits outside the airport and military rings we check, so drone is usually a same-day part of the shoot. Near Manassas Regional, Dulles or Stafford Regional the pilot requests LAANC authorization, which usually comes through in minutes. Our pilots keep the aircraft within line of sight, so very large tracts may need a few take-off points. Horses can startle at drones; tell us where they'll be and we'll fly away from them or ask that they be stalled.

Boundaries and facts.

Buyers will ask where the property lines are. We can mark an approximate outline on an aerial, labeled as approximate, using the parcel information you provide from the county's GIS or a survey. It's a marketing graphic, not a survey, and we say so on the image. Acreage and building facts in captions come from you.