May Theme: Pets & Animals Thank you to everyone who entered and voted on the April competition. Again, we were very pleased with the level of interest and hope it keeps up in the coming months. The rules of the competition will remain largely unchanged this month after a number of improvements last time [...]
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We would like to congratulate Kayleigh Parsons-Matcham from Oakhill, the winner of our April photography competition ‘The Great Outdoors’ with her photo ‘Winter Trees of Yorkshire’. She will win £200 worth of picture frames. We really liked the colour tones in the picture and thought that it encapsulated the theme very well. The road [...]
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As the photo competition continues to grow from strength to strength entrants will have noticed the competition has been split into themes. In honour of this month’s ‘The Great Outdoors’ theme we have focused this blog post towards taking a great shot outdoors that will be worthy of framing in one of our picture frames. Landscapes [...]
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Congratulations to Ian Mayou from Penzance, the winner of our March Photography Competition and the £250 framing voucher. His lovely picture of a rainbow landing on the Brisons just off Porth Nanven Cove in Cornwall really caught our eye and we think it’s a worthy winner. The timing of the shot is fantastic to capture [...]
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This month has seen the start of our Picture Frames Express Photo Competition so in honour of that we thought we would start a new series of blog posts offering tips and advice on taking great photos to hopefully give you some inspiration. Part One – Composition When taking a photo, the composition refers [...]
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The main ‘global photographic event of the year’ shortlist has now been announced. The Sony World Photography Awards has gained interest from budding photographers everywhere. The 2012 competition opened on the 1st June 2011 and closed on the 12th January 2012. The judging process takes place during January and the shortlist announced on the 2nd [...]
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The Christmas and new year period are now behind us and if you agree with us it’s quite sad to see it go. One way you can keep those happy memories to last is to buy picture frames and display the photos you have taken over the holiday period. Maybe you have taken photos of [...]
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We are well into the Christmas season now and most people will either have put their decorations up over the weekend or will be doing so during the next. There is a wide degree of how far you can go with Christmas decorations, with some people happy with a simple tree to others that replace [...]
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Posted in Across the Web, photos
So you’ve taken an amazing photo, you’ve ordered your made to measure picture frame and you’ve framed it and it looks great but now comes the difficult part. Where are you going to hang it? If a picture frame is hung well on a wall then it can create an interesting focal point within a [...]
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If you want to display something a little different in a picture frame then why not try creating your own panoramic-like image which can be displayed in a frame with three or more images going either across or down. Next time you go somewhere and see a beautiful view, such as the setting sun on [...]
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