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.

Machu Picchu, Peru

The Eiffel Tower, Paris

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…

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.

Check out the Take That Progress Live 360 Wembley Photo.

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.

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

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!

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

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…

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

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!

GOAL!!!

Apparently not.

This terrible call from the referee sparked THE WHOLE INTERNETS* to step in and express their opinions.

*not actually ENTIRE internet.

Some, in photo form.

Brilliant use of sarcasm.

This photo was taken using a new ‘Referee Vision’ camera.

We are pretty sure the 2nd photo will be framed and hung proudly on the walls of thousands of German homes; because it’s hardly something the British are proud enough to frame. But if any of you are, be you English or German, you know where to go for your custom frames .

Until the next badly judged goal, The Picture Frames Express Team

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!

A truly surreal fantasy landscape shot, crafted from scratch!

The power of the digital paintbrush is really shown off in the shot above, the true creativity and imagination of the artist can be expressed in infinite detail and depth.

A whole new world, straight from the creative centre of the artists mind!

A highly detailed and creative digital caricature.

As you can see from the images above, if a computer savvy artist can imagine it, then he can create it! We find it brilliant how someone can take a caricatured image that would normally come across as cartoon, and add such high detail and depth that it becomes totally photorealistic!

Last but not least, our personal favourite here at Picture Frames Express… The world through the eyes of renowned digital artist – David Fuhrer. This peice is called – “Blue Moon”. We think it would look fantastic in a nice large picture frame!

But you can judge for yourself….

David Fuhrer's - 'Blue Moon'

It’s good to see that the art industry is still thriving in this new age of technology, hopefully with the release of Photoshop CS3, it may be the dawn of a new, ’21st Century Renaissance’! (Minus the frilly clothing and messy paint brushes!)

We hope you found these 4 images inspiring, maybe you could check out some of our featured Photoshop tutorials and try your hand at creating a similar peice ready for a Picture Frames Express custom frame!

Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team!

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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.

After watching this video, complete with the chaotic crescendos and super slow-mo shots, don’t be surprised if you catch yourself throwing some dog food into your trolly on your next trip to the supermarket.

In the mean time we recommend a framed picture of your faithful companion too. (end of shameless plug)

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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!

This picture (above) sparks many images of summer amongst the Picture Frames Team, it’s almost as if the clouds are parting to light up the great colour in these flowers to break from the miserable greys and blacks of the recent winter. This shot really does convey the warmth of the fresh spring breeze, and the flowers carry that oh so familiar scent! (Photo by code poet)

Pink blossom lighten a recently bar branch

Don’t you find that the first sign of blossom is a brilliant indicator that spring has begun! From a branch totally scarce of leaves, to a tree almost overflowing with so many vibrant petals. Some dropping of for a chance of sweeping with the breeze like a rain of brightly coloured confetti.

Spring also bring a resurgance and life to the undergrowth! With bugs, birds and all sorts of wildlife tripling their numbers.

The first ladybird of spring, an inspiring sight! A sign of things to come, with the land and air soon to be bustling with all sorts of tiny life; a good reminder to take bug spray to the next family picnic!

Beautiful refraction through water droplets hanging on blades of grass

We hope that these few pictures will inspire you to get out there and start snapping some of your own spring photos! Ready for the new picture frames you’ll be buying for this years fresh start!

From all of us here at The Picture Frames Express Team, have a lovely spring!

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