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Thursday, 20 March 2008 

Painters with Light Gallery Owners Presentation

The Painting with Light team get quite a few enquiries from gallery owners about exhibitions and being visually orientated folk we decided to create a presentation about the group and its work. Dave Peck did all the hard work, designing and building a powerpoint presentation to showcase our work.

The thing is, powerpoint is not really a format you want to stick on the web. So I have used authorPoint Lite to convert the presentation to flash and then stuck it on some spare webspace. If you get a spare few minutes, why not take a look at the Painitng with Light Society Gallery Owners Presentation and let me know what you think.

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Monday, 25 February 2008 

Kevin Goodchild exhibition opens

Fellow Essex photographer and good friend Kevin Goodchild has his first exhibitions of images of Essex opening today. If you are anywhere near Rayleigh its bound to be worth a visit.


Polders
(by Kevin Goodchild)

The exhibiton runs through to Friday 28th March at
The Mill Arts & Events Centre
Mill Hall, Bellingham Lane, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 7ED
Telephone: 01268 778737

If you can't make it to the exhibition the images are on his website.

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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 

Lemon ~ Limited Edition Managment ONLine, Access97 Release

I have had a couple of mails from people trying to use my Limited Edition Management System (LEMON) on Access97 and failing miserably.

For these poor souls I have created LEMON for Access 97, I hope you find it of use.

And for no apparent reason here is a picture I took in Southwark Cathedral the other day as part of my Friday Lunchtime Project:

Remembrance
(Click to view Large)



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Saturday, 24 November 2007 

Painters With Light Exhibition opens in Norfolk

Regular readers will be aware that I am a member of The Painting with Light Society - A group of Landscape Photographers from East Anglia. There are eight of us in the group including such talented folk as Jon Gibbs who won Landscape Photographer of The Year and Ian Flindt who had five pictures Highly Commended in the same exhibition.

Our latest exhibition has just opened at The Stable Gallery, Kelling, near Holt. The Exhibition runs from 24th Nov - 23rd Dec.

Happisburgh Dawn
(Click...or visit the exhibition to view large)

The exhibition will feature the work of all 8 members of the society together with prints from a guest photographer, Kate Barclay. In total over 40 framed prints will be on display.

Framed or Mounted prints will be available for purchase so why not pop along for a look if you are in the area.

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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 

I've got a gig

As mentioned in a previous blog I have decided to try avoiding the conventions of photography when it comes to exhibiting my work.

Not for me the conventional exhibition, no I've got myself a music gig. I will be exhibiting my pictures as part of a charity concert for Haven House Hospice, pictures will be available at special pricing and for each photograph sold £10 goes to the Hospice.

If you can come along it would be great to see you there:

Gig Poster - Click to view large


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Tuesday, 4 September 2007 

We got an award!

Well September has only just started and it's a pretty fine month in my opinion. After an August where events conspired to stop me taking hardly any pictures at all, I managed to get down to Leigh-on-Sea for the dawn on Saturday morning and capture some interesting light.


Moonlight Fossett
(Click to view Large)

In addition I am chuffed to bits that this site has been awarded "website of the month" by Outdoor Photography magazine. It's actually for the October issue but magazines being what they are the issue is out now. A big welcome to all those hundreds (indeed hundreds, I checked my logs) of people who saw the article and decided to check out the site. Hope you will stick around.

The final piece of good news is that I have a gig. Yes a gig, not an exhibition. I have been invited to exhibit my pictures as part of a charity concert. More details real soon.

Yup, September is a good month.

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Monday, 2 July 2007 

Francis Aliefeh Exhibition

If your in London at any time between the 2nd July and the 9th of September why not pop along to a new exhibition by Francis Aliefeh at The Oxo Tower.

London Eye by Night
London Eye by Night
by Francis Aliefeh


Francis Aliefeh Exhibition 2nd July - 9th Sept
OXO
8th Floor, Oxo Tower Wharf
Barge House Street
South Bank
London SE1 9PH

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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 

Holding your first Photography Exhibition

I'm still spring cleaning the site and migrating the articles section of the site into this here blog malarkey. So I though I would point you all in the direction of an article I wrote three yeas ago.

Setting up an Exhibition gives a few pointers on setting up your first exhibition. Since that first exhibition I have become quite practised at putting on exhibitions. Reading it again I still feel it offers some useful advice that you rarely see on any of the photography sites on the web.


Bluebell Stripes
(A popular Exhibition Shot)

I hope it is of interest and to borrow a line from my own article:
If you are thinking of putting on an exhibition then go for it, you won’t regret it.

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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 

Lemon ~ Limited Edition Management ONline

Many photographers who produce Limited Edition prints of their work have developed ad-hoc systems to manage them.

Faced with the constant headache of maintaining what has been printed and sold, which numbers have been allocated, etc. I decided to develop a system to bring this under control. The current release features:

  • Keep track of editions and sales easily from one screen.
  • Block Allocate ~ reserve a group of prints for a particular customer.
  • Certificates of Authenticity.
  • Print Run ~ Mark a group of prints as printed and generate the appropriate certificates.
  • Sales reports.
  • AutoAllocate© ~ When creating an edition numbers can be automatically allocated.

This is free software. The only thing I ask is that you mail me if you use it. The reason for this is so that I can mail out notices of any bug fixes/enhancements to existing users as soon as they are spotted. I like to keep track of the number of users out there. It's not much to ask is it?

New Release - Version 1.1 Released 23 Oct 2006

  • First Release used in anger :)
  • Added ability to generate single certificate
    Added Image path rename form
    Added version History
    Added new certificate Format "Shepherdpics"
  • Recreated the reports to provide useful info!
    Various minor fixes

Where can I get this fantastic software ?

download Click here to download




Access97 Version

How do I install it ?

The Installation is very straight forward. Here are the instructions.

Where can I get support ?

Check out the users guide, if that doesn't help then simply mail me and I will see if I can help.

Does it cost anything ?

Nope not a sausage. If you would like to donate a thankyou gift then please use the paypal button below and I will make sure all payments go to charity.

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Sunday, 14 January 2007 

I made the papers

I have had a picture in The East Anglian Daily Times yesterday. As part of a three page feature on the exhibition at The Basement Gallery, Ipswich.

The picture chosen was "May in July", taken at sunset on Derwent Water. I haven't actually seen the paper myself as I am well out of their circulation area, but I am told it looks good.

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Saturday, 6 January 2007 

Edward Norton - Nature Photographer

Last weekend I popped up to The Basement Gallery to see how my work was going in The Painters With Light Exhibition that is on there.

Whilst I was there I was very pleased to see Edward Norton's first exhibition in the same gallery. I have met Edward on many occasions and its always a pleasure to shoot along side such a talented technician and all round good chap.

Having seen his work on the web it was great to see his work as prints, where they really come to life. If you are visiting Ipswich in January I strongly recommend you pop down to The Basement Gallery: 11 Elm St & 12-14 Princes St and checkout Edwards Beautiful images.


Candle Snuff
By Kind Permission of Edward Norton


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Wednesday, 6 December 2006 

Painters With Light Exhibition opens at The Basement Gallery

A small exhibition by The Painters with Light Society, opens at The Basement gallery, Ipswich. The work displayed can be found here

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Sunday, 5 November 2006 

Painters With Light Exhibition opens at St. Helenas Hospice

The first permanent exhibition by The Painters with Light Society, opens at The St. helenas Hospice. The work displayed can be found here

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Sunday, 5 March 2006 

Beauty of Britain Virtual Exhibition Opens

For those of you who can't make it to my latest exhibition, I have created a virtual exhibition so that you can enjoy it from the comfort of your mouse.

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Friday, 3 March 2006 

Beauty of Britain Exhibition Opens

My new exhibition entitled The Beauty of Britain opens at Daiwa Securities Europe Ltd, London.

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Monday, 9 August 2004 

A Year in the Meadows opens at Loughton Library

My new exhibition A Year in the Meadows has just opened at Loughton Library.

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