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February 21, 2012

Picture Frames Express Photo Competition (June: Sights of Summer!)

 

June Theme: Sights of Summer!

Thank you to everyone who entered and voted on the May competition. It was great to see how creative some of you were with the shots of your pets and animals, and most of them were just plain cute!

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Entries will need to be submitted via Facebook. You will find the competition tab on the right hand side of our Facebook page just below the large cover image. Alternatively, you can enter the competition page directly by clicking here.

Once you have ‘Liked’ the Picture Frames Express Facebook page you will be able to upload your entry directly via the entry form. The theme for this month is ‘Sights of Summer’. You can do whatever you want within the area of this theme and we’ll be fairly lenient with regards to what is acceptable.

The top voted on and 10 of our own favourites from the rest will make a final shortlist of 20. The winner and runner-up will then be chosen objectively by someone with no knowledge of how the pictures arrived in the shortlist or how many votes are associated with each one. We think this is the fairest way to give everyone a chance of winning.

Closing Date

This month’s competition closes at midnight on 31st May 2012. Winners will be announced within 14 days and a number of runners up will be featured on our blog.

You have full creative freedom over your photos as long as they are of the correct theme and not in breach of the terms and conditions. We are excited to see your camera skills, so submit your photos now, and remember this it’s only one entry per person.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is the competion open to entrants outside the UK?

A: No, we can only accept entries from UK residents – sorry.

Q: I’m having trouble voting. What is the problem?

A: There is a known issue with Safari on Mac computers. We recommend trying a different web browser or computer. Apologies for the inconvenience. If you’re not on a Mac, signing out of Facebook and back in should fix any problems.

 

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September 5, 2011

Picture Frame Famous Landmarks

Whilst stumbling through the Internet one afternoon we came across these beautiful photos of what are considered to be some of the most important landmarks of the world. A landmark is considered as anything that makes a place instantly recognisable such as a building, statue or natural wonder. If you showed a picture of any of these landmarks to someone then they will most likely be able to tell you what country that landmark is in. For anyone who visits these places or enjoys regular travelling, taking that all important photograph to capture your visit is a great moment.

Here are some of our favourites which we think would make great wall decorations if put in a picture frame and displayed in your home.

 

picture frame of Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu, Peru

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower, Paris

Christo Redemptor

Christo Redemptor, Rio de Janeiro

 

And if we were to get one picture frame produced of any famous landmark then we would have to go with this…

 

picture frame of Easter Island

Easter Island, Polynesian Triangle

 

If you have any pictures from your travels that you think would look great in a picture frame, then we can help mount or frame your favourite picture so that you can display it proudly in your home for all to see.

July 27, 2011

Amazing Concert Panorama

Once again it’s time for one of those marvellous images from the Internet that the Picture Frames Express team loves. That’s right it’s another amazing fully interactive 360 degree panoramic image to feast your eyes on!

Check out the Take That Progress Live 360 Wembley Photo.

Take That panoramic picture

Although not as big as the 80 gigapixel panorama of London we previously posted, this 20 gigapixel panorama of Take That’s recent concert at Wembley stadium is truly impressive. The panorama takes in everything from the band onstage and their giant stage prop, to the screaming girls in the front row and the steward stood on the very back row. It even allows each every individual fan that packed into the stadium to tag themselves on Facebook.

If you were there with friends and have found your group within the crowd then we think you should have multi picture frames made as a memento for everyone. You could have a picture of you and your friends in the crowd, a close up one of the band and one of the whole stage. This would look great in any of our styles of picture frames and be a great reminder of the sell out concert.

If you were there and have tagged yourself, then why not let the Picture Frames Express team know.

Till next time.

April 21, 2011

Frame the easter weather!

As you’ve probably noticed, the UK has got it’s groove back! In terms of weather anyway!

Say goodbye to those wooly gloves, hats and winter jackets because spring is officialy here!

All over Britain we’ve been bathing in a lovely warmth for the past week or two and the effects are really starting to show. People are scrambling to their sheds and brushing the cobwebs off the deck-chairs and there are smiles where-ever you go! Though we may be known as a nation to over-react with any weather, it hasn’t stopped anyone from lashing on the suncreams!

We have a wonderful series of bank holidays coming up, giving us all a little time to relax and lounge about in the garden, basking in the beautiful weather. Don’t forget though, easter is only a few days away too! We’ll all be having to cram our fridges with choccy so it doesn’t melt!

This fantastic weather has arrived just in time to make our May!

It’s a great time to dig those picnic baskets and coolers out of the loft and start packing some sarnies! A perfect reason to dig out those dusty digital cameras and snap a few photos to frame! Summer and spring can bring us some of the best times of our lives, so why not give yourself something to remember those good times by?

What better way to preserve a memory than framing it and hanging it on your wall!

Here at picture frames express, we offer a great range of fully customisable and made-to-measure framing options to suit any photo, any wall and any customer!

Take a look around our site and see if you can find the perfect from for those sunny photos! We’re sure you’ll find something to suit your taste!

Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team

January 27, 2011

More panoramics

Continuing from our last post’s theme of ridiculously big photos – we present to you another fantastic find from across the internet.

360 Cities.net are the proud owners of a mind boggling 80 GIGAPIXEL fully interactive three-hundred-and-sixty degree panorama of London city!

Amongst several other brilliant city panoramas of course; but as of November 2010 – the London panorama is the biggest panoramic photo, EVER TAKEN!

 

Click here to visit the London 80 gigapixel panorama.

 

If that hasn’t completely blown your mind, then you really do need to see this.

A brochure of fully interactive, 360 degree… VIDEOS.

Incredible what we can do with technology, isn’t it?!

We hope you enjoyed this short but hopefully mind blowing post, we’re off to see if we can get the London panorama into a picture frame for our wall!

Until next time,
The Picture Frames Express Team

December 30, 2010

We need a bigger picture frame

We’ve covered a number of digitally concieved images and styles here on the Picture Frames Express blog, even several ways to digitally enhance an average photo.

We’ve seen how combining several elements for different photographs can create surreal landscapes or even realistic caricatures.

But what if we were to take several photos of our subject from different angles and digitally stitch them all together?

We end up with a…

P A N O R A M A

Just incase you didn’t notice, this image scrolls left to right.

Feel free to click the image itself to open it in a new window and experience it in full resolution.

This wonderful effect is achieved by carefully aligning several photos either horizontally, verically or even both; to create the illusion of one great seamless image!

One that is way too big to frame!

Below is a useful tutorial from YouTube, incase you are interested in how exactly these awe-inspiring photos are pieced together.

Or maybe even make your own!

Happy Panoramas!
The Picture Frames Express Team

June 29, 2010

England was FRAMED!

As I’m sure our British readers will know, England suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of Germany’s squad at the world cup the other day.

The most controversial part of this match being the disallowed ‘goal’ from our very own Frank Lampard, which wrecked an already staggered level of team morale and spurred on an intense disliking of the referee (from the English fans of course).

The fact of the matter being, technology was out-ruled as a form of validation for a goal, referee’s word is final, no matter how inaccurate! This has raised talks amongst FIFA execs about the use of ‘Goal-Line Technology’ to help verify referee’s decisions and ensure a fair game.

Plenty of other sports use similar technology to validate badly judged calls and accurately review split second movements for fairness, but FIFA just don’t agree that it is in the best interest for the sport

Below we have photographs taken of the ‘no-goal’ using the goal-line tech. Judge for yourself!

England Was FRAMED

Goal…?

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April 30, 2010

21st Century Renaissance

With the dawn of Adobe Creative Suite CS5 we think it is the right time to show off the true power of a creative mind combined with an industry defining image editor… Photoshop!

As you know, we here at Picture Frames Express are strong advocates for the power Photoshop gives it’s users. It helps keep true creativity alive in this digital age, it is a brilliant source of images that are truly worth framing and hanging above the mantelpiece!

Today, we will show you a few awe inspiring digital illustrations from some of the best Photoshop artists from across the globe!

Surreal landscape

A truly surreal fantasy landscape shot, crafted from scratch!


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April 29, 2010

Has digital photography gone to the dogs? Dogs Filmed At 1000 Frames Per Second

A dogs life in Picture Frames

After our last post about life in spring we thought we’d take a closer look at one of mans best friend, Dogs!

You’d be forgive for thinking dogs and digital photography isn’t exactly going to be ground breaking. You would of course be wrong, barking possibly (sorry)

The following video from pedigree chum is a collection of hounds filmed at 1000 frames per second and some of the expressions they manage to capture are surprisingly human. (more…)

April 28, 2010

Spring 2010!

 

So! Spring is finally here, plenty more sheep and rabbits pottering around, flowers blooming again, leaves on the trees. The world is crawling back to life! With temperatures practically soaring over here in the UK, it’s getting easier by the day for us to forget such a cold and depressing winter. In light of this, we are going to post a few pictures of some of the best spring photography we could find across the web!

 

vibrant pink flowers

Vibrant pink flowers amidst a perfect sky. Photo by code poet

 

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