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This month got off to a slow start with Salon results only starting to arrive during the last week or so. In total, I’ve had reports from 7 Salons…… ...more

In early 2010 I started a long term street photography project entitled "Ordinary People". In the period since then I have accumulated a large collection of images.... ...more

December has been “a funny old month” for Salon results. Some 12 Salons have reported – One BPE Salon and 11 Internationals. As would be expected, with the Christmas Holidays, it’s been very much a story of two halves, with around half the Salons reporting in the first 2 weeks of the month and the a flurry of activity during the last week…… ...more

Last weekend I was successful in obtaining the CPAGB award. Judging of the ten images required took place at Llanberis in North Wales and I went along to watch the proceedings…. ...more

This month has seen a pleasing flow of results from Salons around the world with 9 acceptances across 4 different International Salons and a further 3 acceptances in the 21st Guernsey Salon…. ...more

For over 40 years I have used an SLR style camera. Initially, Praktica and then Canon cameras. Then for the last 14 years or so I have used the Minolta/Sony system. Over the last few months I have concluded that the time has come for a change….. ...more

October is a busy month for Salon results cards and with almost 60 acceptances across National and International Salons it would be difficult to itemise all the results here. So, I will simply summarise the highlights… ...more

After the relative disappointment of the August salon results, the level of acceptances during the last month has been a great deal more encouraging… ...more

After a rather disappointing collection of Salon results, August has been rounded off with three acceptances at the Great Barr PS B.P.E. Open Exhibition 2011 ...more

A number of the galleries on this site have become rather cumbersome and not particularly user friendly....... ...more

A few months ago, I recognised that I had several thousand digital images on my hard drive that I had not post-processed or, if I had, I had been disappointed with the end result and had written the image off. Many of these images “failed” because I didn’t get the most out of them when I originally processed them largely because I didn't know what I know now!…….. ...more

After a relatively quiet spell we are entering a busy period for entries to International Salons. The quiet spell has enabled me to reflect and consider a new strategy for international salon entries..... ...more

My BPE1* Certificate has recently arrived safely.... ...more

I have spent the last couple of evenings adding 23 images to various galleries...... ...more

When I started in photography back in the 70's and 80's I concentrated on monochrome photography. After a break of around 14 years, I returned to photography when I purchased my first DSLR and concentrated on creating colour images, with just the odd black and white image..... ...more

The last 4 days have seen a very successful set of Exhibition results..... ...more

Last year I started to submit images to UK Exhibitions that are accredited to the British Exhibitions (BPE) organisation. ...more

I have been entering National & International Salons since March 2010 and with acceptance rates averaging around 25% total rejections are a "day to day" hazard for the exhibitor..... ...more

I've just spent several processing sessions working on some HDR images made at Ripon Cathedral back in February and learned a number of lessons... ...more