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Something old | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Photography Basics With Memory Gate

Point of Interest | Photography Composition

Point of interest, sometimes referred to as the centre of interest, is probably the most important element in any photographic composition. If your photography has any goal at all then at the most basic level it has to capture or record a subject or point of interest. In order for that image to become good or even acceptable, then your photograph needs to emphasise the importance of your point of…
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Top marks for Borehamwood teacher’s story in national competition

Do you remember our special storytelling event this summer at Vauxhall City Farm with Tamzin Outhwaite? Well, well, we now have a winner for the literary competition. A newly-wed trainee teacher from Borehamwood has won this year’s national Munch Time children’s story writing competition. Shayna Evans scoops the £1000 cash prize for her story ‘Here Comes the Airplane!’ (you can download…
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Lips | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Boredom | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Photography Basics With Memory Gate

The Rule of Thirds Photography Basics Composition

When considering the rules of photographic composition one of the most well known of them all is the rule of thirds. This theory of composition is not by any means new and the term dates back to John Thomas Smith’s 1797 book Remarks on Rural Scenery where he discussed the the balance of dark and light in a painting. If you want to begin to take and compose well balanced images then an…
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Movement | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Technology | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Feet | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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