'Face / Side'
Every building will have at least one 'Face' being photographed, this usually being the front of the building. The term 'Face' will be used to describe a single 'Side' of a building. For example a shop positioned in the middle of a terrace will have two possible 'Faces', these being the front and back of the building. Most likely only one 'Face' (the front) will be photographed in this example. A detached building (depending on its shape) might have four or more 'Faces', front, back and sides.

'Hero Side'
When we talk about the 'Hero Side' of a building we are normally dealing with the front, but not always. The term 'Hero' is referring to the Side (or Face) of the building where the most detail (geometric and textural detail) will be lavished. In the example used later in this guide you will see that the holiday apartments have their 'Hero Side' at what is essentially the back of the building, the side facing the sea front.

'Cloning'
Cloning is a PhotoShop (PhotoShop is one of the photo editing software applications we use) technique we use for carefully sampling material around obstructions and than layering these sampled materials over the obstructed area, thus removing the unwanted element from the image.

Well, that's the terms out of the way, now I'll quickly tell you about the camera icon you will see on each page. To make sure you can quickly see all the 'key points' I have put this little camera icon next to each of them. I've also tried to keep the descriptions as short as possible while giving you all the details, I don't want to get you bogged down with too much reading.

What To Do Next

If you have decided to go for GeoDock Foundation™ or GeoDock Bricks & Mortar™ you should print out and fill in the 'Here I Am' sheet so we have your website/web page details and your exact location.

Once you've had a look through our guide, printed out and filled in the 'Here I Am' sheet (this sheet is explained at the bottom of Page 2), picked a nice sunny day and taken photographs of your building, you're ready for the next step.




HomeFront™ customers only, please print out and fill in this version of the 'Here I Am, Residential' sheet.




From May / 7 / 2008 you will be able to send your 'Here I Am' sheet and photographs to us and get a 'FREE Build Quote'. The best way to send photographs to us is to put them onto a CD and post them along with your 'Here I Am' sheet to:

If you have ever tried to send large digital photographs via e-mail you will understand why putting them onto CD is the best option available.

Hope You Have Fun

Well, I think that should be most of the little details about this guide, and what to do with it, sorted out.

If you would like to email me about anything please do so; just follow these email instructions designed to stop spam mailing: use the address show in the image here to the right (antl at earthhd.co.uk) and please make sure you put the 'Subject' of your email as 'A Question About earthHD'
This email setup is simply to stop some of the thousands of spam email we receive.
Please Note: that our email is setup not to allow attachments larger than 250kb.

It's just left for me to say I hope you enjoy photographing your building and I'll look forward to personally dealing with every 'FREE Quote' request during the GeoDock™ startup period. Please Have Fun.


Anthony Lawrence,

GeoDock™ Founder