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Jim Bartsch at work.
Lane ocean-front home had run in New York, and been seen by a billionaire who flew out in his private plane within days and bought it. Similarly, a man in Connecticut saw an image online, flew out, and purchased the El Capitan ranch estate. Though he has shot many homes owned by celebrities, he won’t “shoot-and-tell.” Bartsch does report that he photographed Michael Jackson’s former home Neverland, which was on the market recently, and last January, he photographed the Playboy Mansion. “There are no bigger properties than those,” he concludes. “He is definitely an artist,” adds Food & Home Publisher, Phil Kirkwood. “He can take what would be an ordinary, everyday space and somehow inject the dramatic. He has a unique quality to his photos, from the angles he chooses, to the styling of the shot, to the light he creates in post computer work.” See Jim Bartsch’s photography at www.jimbartsch.com w w w. f o o d – h o m e . c o m
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