Friday 19th September 2008 | |||
Local Photography, Viewpoints, Rainbows and the Magic of Merlin | |||
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This week we have a varied collection of articles some of which is linked and some others that offer a continuation from other weeks, plus a look at the magic of Merlin in time for the start of the TV series this Saturday. Merlin,
is a BBC TV programme that is to run Saturday evenings starting this week at 7:30pm,
and is produced in similar style to Dr Who and the Robin Hood dramas. So its
fiction based around the names of some ancient characters that may have existed,
or may not, and if they did were not as many believe. We have looked before at
the
places connected with King Arthur,
Carried over from last week we have
an article on how to photograph
rainbows.
When I say we are covering
Viewpoint photography
The picture of the week, a picture of Gloucester Cathedral was taken from the top of a church tower in around 1900. It's one of the many photochromes we have on this website. To get to the photochromes select the Locations button on the left and then Photochromes Project button. Use the county map within this to get to see what is available. Currently we have nearly a 1000 old images online covering most English counties, we still have to get around to adding most of the Welsh and Scottish ones.
Building a master list of all viewpoints in the UK would be a massive project,
and rather than attempt this we will get to the same objective by listing
viewpoints by area, from
time to time, and we start this week with some very close to us,
with a list of
viewpoints in
Gloucestershire.
We also have a list of
attractions in Gloucestershire
This brings us to the other theme of the week, Photography in your home area.
The Photo Skills course will start in a weeks
time on Saturday the 27th, but being online you can take a look when you want,
and start at any point over a three month period. This is completely free, has
no registration, and is completely available online. We will be closely working
with this, so a lot of the material used by the course will be articles and
projects that appear here, and every time they want to suggest a topic for
people to photograph they will be able to find the locations within our guides.
This has benefits for them, in that we have already done a great deal of what is
needed, or have it in hand, and its beneficial to you and us in that it means we
will have even more articles and coverage over the next few years. Yes I said
years, this is not a simple course but one where everyone should get to take
better photographs within a few months or so, and then go on expanding their
skills and learning new techniques as they put them into practice. As you don't
register and don't have any cost, its up to you to decide when you know enough
and stop. In some cases after getting through the first year, some people may
look at the course as it progresses, looking in detail at the areas of interest
and missing those that are not. So working along side us, it will provide other
parts plus taking many of our jigsaw pieces
We will also shortly start to have some adverting, so far we have operated by the project being sponsored, this has allowed us to grow independently fast, but in order to let more people know about what we have available we need to do a lot more advertising and PR than we can on our existing sponsorship. Rather than split our time between developing this site, training and marketing advertising, we have done a deal to allow others to do the marketing of the advertising. This is being set up in a way that allows people working from home to set up their own team business, later each team can become a company. We have also updated the introduction section of this website, more a case of catch up than anything terribly exciting, but may be of interest to those who have just started to visit us. Finally where does the River Thames start? We
have also produced two location guides, covering both places where the Thames is
said to start Thames Head,
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Summary of Articles Included this week | |||
Lists relating to ........ Photography | |||
In the News This Week
See information above on the
Photo Skills FREE
photography training course
Straw sculptures - a windmill has been created
out of straw bales - see
www.snugburys.co.uk/sculpture.htm
NEW Photoshop CS4 - On the 23rd, we are expecting to see the launch of Photoshop CS4. We will bring you more on this when it happens and we get to see what differences there are. The
Cerne Abbas Giant
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Locations Guides Added This Week | |||
Cotswold Farm
Park, Gloucestershire
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire
Seven Springs, Gloucestershire
St Briavels Castle,
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Sudeley Castle,
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire
Thames
Head, Gloucestershire
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