What you’re failing to remark upon is the fact that all these agents are time poor. What with potential buyers knocking on their doors and all those sales to process you can forgive them for the lack of attention in the photoshopping department. I can see it now, in between the 230pm viewing at Belmayne and the 315pm viewing at Spencer Dock they probably had 10mins to ‘google image search’ Clontarf Church
You know you can’t have a sky like that and not put Willy Wonka’s boat, a c.1900’s mens rowing team and a venetian Gondala floating down the beautiful aquamarine blue liffey
apparently he did it the old-school way
“Using a scalpel and glue and sometimes a microscope, Seán mixed fragments of postcards and other ‘found materials’ in elaborate compositions to create a fantastic but seemingly possible Other place, where The Pyramids nestle in Carlingford Lough, John Hinde’s freckled-faced children collect meteorites outside the Observatory at Knowth, and Newry Gagarin, the celebrated cosmonaut, hovers over the Dublin streets.”
They really are charming images, made all the more appealing when you read about his MO
I have to say, coming from an architectural background, I used to love our presentation drawings in college, cardboard, scalpel, pen, bits of plastic for the windows making little 2d masterpieces. 3D imagery leaves me cold, I think it’s amazing, don’t get me wrong, but I find it hard to get enthused about a design that is presented thus…give me a botched model or a watercolour any day, they just have more soul. Same with cgi movies, star wars is so much more charming when you watch the docus about the deathstar scale models