Nothing says “welcome home” quite like HDR mold, rot, and CAUTION tape.

I love how they cranked up the HDR so high that the dead brown grass looks like it’s glowing a bright yellow color.

The ridiculously overdone HDR amplifies every little defect, even in the least-terrible-looking room in the house.

Seriously, this place looks like some kind of Siberian prison.

List price on this 1,840 square foot rathole: Six hundred thousand dollars.

And it went pending after only nine days on the market.

Welcome to Seattle!

And in case it didn’t quite do the trick, you can always show an interior…

…then go back to the view.

Repeatedly…

And why not toss in an extra, beyond hi-def view, just for the heck of it?

A little tasteful HDR can make for some good-looking listing photos.

Unfortunately, the HDR applied to the photos of this listing is neither “a little” nor “tasteful.”

This would be a truly terrifying reality to live in.

The exterior shots are the least-terrifying of the set, but even those have an almost cartoon-like feel to them.

If I were the seller of this $1.2 million home, I would fire the listing agent and the photographer immediately. These photos are a bad joke.

This is another one of those listings that really more amazing than “looney.”

I mean, they did overdo it on the HDR on a few of the interior shots…

But that view. Whoa.

This shot from the “virtual tour” is pretty great, too.

Seems totally safe. Have fun, kids!

This is what I imagine a $3.3 million home would look like if a nuclear weapon had just been detonated ten or twenty miles behind the photographer.

The interior is just as unnaturally bright. Somehow even the black cupboards appear to be emitting a radiant glow.

That is a lot of drawers and sliding doors. I think this is a hallway but it almost looks like a closet full of closets.

When your landscaper doesn’t stop at the front door… rocks on the floor, inside the house.

Don’t miss the listing description, either. The listing agent for this home, one Wendy Lister (because when your name “Lister” of course you’re going to become a real estate agent), is fairly notorious in the Seattle area for her expensive listings and over-the-top prose:

Extraordinary Big Sur extended profile. . a statement of authority above the astonishing saltwater isle/view plateau. Moments of appreciation ~ subtle to sensational. Elongated entrance foyer, unprecedented. Protracted hall of wardrobes to two substantial owner suites. Without reservation, the colossal great-room of white terrazzo, brilliant seascape spectacles, the sheer volume are powerful. Remarkable: pool, resort-size cabana (fpl, bath), tennis, coach house, gated. 3 more living zones.

It’s no “egrets seek the sky, involuntary sigh,” but I still call it listing gold.

This home’s previous primary listing photo was apparently attempting to convey what the home would look like to a prospective buyer who was totally tripping balls on LSD.

This is what the home looks like in our version of reality.

The old photo was replaced at some point with the second version, but the LSD version still shows up at the time of this writing as the thumbnail on a Google search for the address.

Nothing like a living room furnished with radioactive decor to give your home a healthy, pleasing glow.

And a glowing, radioactive bedroom.

And some glowing, radioactive clouds.

Somehow I thought San Jose would be less… glowy.

Nice find by Burbed!

Wow. Just wow.

This is apparently what happens when a listing agent spends 30 seconds reading a Yahoo Answers post about “that new-fangled HDR thing” and rushes out to apply it to their listing.

Seriously. What were they thinking?

To wrap up our impromptu “Out of Place HDR” week on Looney Listing, let’s behold this gem, also in Seattle, with an asking price of over half a million dollars.

I especially like how in the above photo the light on the ceiling is far brighter in the full-wall mirror than it is in the foreground. Magic physics!

Nothing says “let’s cozy up and watch some TV” like boxes piled to the ceiling. Oh and no furniture to sit on because there isn’t room for any furniture among all the clutter. So cozy!

Apparently it’s “Out of Place HDR” week here on Looney Listing!

Nothing like a splash of TOTALLY REALISTIC color to sell your triple-wide in Middle of Nowhere, Oregon.

Are trees supposed to glow white like that?

The best part is that the interior photos are all fairly normal until suddenly, halfway through the set…

…BAM, over-saturated sink close-up!

Massively cluttered basement? No problem!

Just shoot that thing in over-saturated HDR!

Then everyone will be so overwhelmed by the hyper-reality of your next-generation photography skills that they’ll never notice all of the random crap covering every possible surface!