{"id":6298,"date":"2015-04-08T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2016-01-20T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:51:33","slug":"aprils-photographer-of-the-month-alison-tuffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/photographer-of-the-month\/aprils-photographer-of-the-month-alison-tuffin\/","title":{"rendered":"April\u2019s Photographer of the Month- Alison Tuffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6302 aligncenter\" title=\"winningimage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/winningimage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;What can you tell us about your winning entry?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I captured this image last December in some nearby woodland, it was taken the morning after we&#8217;d had a very heavy snow-fall in Shropshire. I wanted to achieve a very natural, organic feel to the overall result &amp; I think I managed to achieve that with this shot.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;How did you get into Photography?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It all started around 13 years ago, when my eldest daughter Jessica arrived. I wanted to capture those precious moments in her\u00a0life. The first camera that I used was a Minolta Dynax 5 &amp; ever since then it&#8217;s very rare that I&#8217;m without a camera in my hand!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s only in the last three years that I started to look at my photography on a more serious side; it was after a family holiday to The Lake District three years ago that I had my first order for a canvas of Coniston Water at Sunset &amp; from there I&#8217;ve not looked back!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6304\" title=\"Imagesforinterview3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Imagesforinterview3-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;What do you enjoy about photography?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love the fact that photography &#8220;freezes&#8221; that precious moment in time to be shared with generations to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I just love to capture the beauty of the Great Outdoors &amp; all that lives within it. 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I absolutely love what I do &amp; I try to convey that \u00a0in my work for people&#8217;s enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I know this might sound a little bit corny but I truly believe I&#8217;ve finally found what I&#8217;m good at &amp; what I believe, I was always meant to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6305\" title=\"Owl5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Owl5-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;What are your plans for the future?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I would love to keep capturing images which give enjoyment to others and to keep gaining further knowledge\/experience in the photography world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I would also love to have a studio so that I could develop more with my portraiture work, maybe diverse into Newborn\u00a0photography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whatever the future holds, I will always have my camera nearby no matter what!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6306\" title=\"IMAGEFORINTERVIEW4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAGEFORINTERVIEW4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;What do you plan to do with your framing voucher?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve just ordered three frames with the winning voucher from Frames Express which I plan to use framing some Wildlife images from a Birds of Prey photography course which I attended a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6307\" title=\"Madeline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Madeline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;What can you tell us about your winning entry?&#8217; I captured this image last December in some nearby woodland, it was taken the morning after we&#8217;d had a very heavy snow-fall in Shropshire. 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