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Black and white Framed prints of London in the January snow.

This blog is a little out of date but in January it snowed in London and here are a few highlights within the set of prints I made. I travelled mostly by bike, train into the centre of London, along the river through Clapham and Battersea and ended up in Wimbledon.

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Commuters on London bridge. Using slow shutter speeds

London bridge is synonymous with commuters. Capturing the movement against the static Tower Bridge in the background requires a slower shutter speed than normal. The camera also needed to be on a tripod in order to keep the tower bridge element of the image sharp.

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Fine art prints of Paris and why they are fine art prints.

The definition of Fine art photography is: Fine Art Photography is a mode of photography where creative expression takes centre stage. Basically it’s a photographic print that can be displayed where the viewer will appreciate it for its content and the skill it would have taken to make it.

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Albert Bridge prints I’ve made over the years.

When I first started selling my prints in London on the Northcote Road market on Fridays and Saturdays it was a popular print. As it was a limited edition I quickly ran out of prints I could sell. An estate agent once joked that most houses they had for sale in Clapham had that black and white Albert Bridge print hanging somewhere.

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Prague print in an Airbnb in South West London.

Many years ago before I started my gallery I had a market stall on Northcote Road in South West London where I sold my framed prints on a Friday and Saturday. Occasionally in those early days I would be asked to do a commission.

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Framed prints of London are perfect gifts.

Framed prints are great gifts. For the man or woman who has everything a reminder of a time or a place can be the perfect gift. A number of our clients have given our prints to colleagues for retirement and leaving presents.

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Why we use black frames. Black frames work well as sets.

You’ll see in my galleries all of my prints are in black frames. There are two reasons for this. I like to show my clients a real print in a real frame because I make everything by hand and I like to think that my prints work so well in sets that the frames need to be the same.

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Why are all of my prints limited edition?

A limited edition print is a copy of an original artwork that is produced in a set number, making it more rare and valuable than an open edition print. All of my prints are limited edition normally one of a hundred and fifty.

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Prints for Office walls. Framed city prints are perfect.

There’s a huge choice out there of art that can be put of office walls. And a lot of it is inexpensive. There is also a lot of ‘fine art photography’ to choose from. When you key in for example ‘Prints of London for and office’ we lurk around the bottom of the first page, sometimes somewhere on the second page.

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Prints for Hotels. The Park Plaza County Hall in London.

The Plaza Hotel County Hall at the south end of Westminster Bridge in London has two of my framed photographs either side of the bed in each of the ‘superior’ rooms. This was a commission and I loved every minute of it.

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What is a light streak and how I make one.

A light streak requires a slow shutter speed and the camera needs to be sitting on a tripod. It tests every element of your skill as a photographer and I feel very smug when I’ve been successful with one.

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New York prints on a staircase and other tricky spaces.

Offices and homes have corridors and if you live in terraced house you’ll more than likely have a staircase. Some offices in period buildings have staircases and have to think about whether or not to hang pictures in what can sometimes be a tricky space.

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