Some properties announce themselves from a distance. Summit doesn't. You arrive through a canopy of old-growth redwoods, the driveway curving up and away from the world below, and by the time the house reveals itself you already understand what kind of place this is. The Bay spreads out beyond the tree line. The light filters down in long columns. The architecture holds its ground without competing with any of it.

Originally built in 1968 by Robert Overstreet - a San Francisco architect whose work carried the organic imprint of the Wright tradition - the home was conceived as a cantilevered log-pole structure woven into the hillside rather than placed on top of it. A meticulous, down-to-the-studs transformation preserved that original intent while bringing the property fully into the present: five bedrooms, five decks, a bespoke Italian kitchen, a barrel sauna, and glass cube skylights that pull the redwood canopy directly into the interior. This shoot for Schneur Scop called for images that honored both the history of the architecture and the thoroughness of its reinvention.

A property like this doesn't fit neatly into categories. It's too personal for a spec sheet and too architecturally layered for a standard listing. The goal was images that hold both things at once - the wildness of the site and the refinement of what's been built within it. Legacy properties deserve that kind of attention.