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Sep 2009
Latest News!
22/09/09 16:30 Filed in: News
NEW WEBSITE AND PRODUCT DOWNSIZING!
Welcome to the new version of the website! We hope that you like the new design, and find that navigating the site is a lot easier than our previous website.
We recently looked at the products we were offering, and decided that some of them may have been a little confusing to those who visited our website. So we have now simplified the website and our business, to try and focus on our core products and services; Virtual Tours, Digital Photography, Virtual Brochures, and Virtual Videos.
As a result, some of our previous products and services are no longer generally available as of 1st September 2009.
Website Design - Although we design and maintain our own website, there are an awful lot of fantastic website designers out there, and to try and keep on top of all of the new technologies that are constantly being released, would not allow us to focus fully on our core photographic services in the way that we would like to.
Scripting Services - We previoulsy offered UNIX/Linux and OpenVMS scripting, which were our "geeky" products, and to be perfectly honest, were not generating much business for us, which is why we decided to ditch them so we could concentrate more on all of the other cool and fun stuff that we offer!
We are hoping that this new streamlined approach provides you with a better experience on the site, and provides the necessary information that you need concerning our services.
NEW PRODUCT!
As you may have seen, although we have removed some products, we have introduced a new product; VIRTUAL VIDEOS.
Virtual Videos are a really cool product whereby we edit together still photographs, video, music, and captions, into motion videos, that can be inserted easily onto websites.
A very cost effective and low-cost alternative to Virtual Tours, they provide effective marketing for your business, and can help get your message across to your customers with ease.
REFERRAL SCHEME!
As of 1st September 2009 we are now operating a Referral Scheme.
How does this work?
1) You have to be one of our existing customers.
2) You refer someone to us, who purchases one of our products or services.
3) For introducing us to a new customer, we give you a Marks & Spencer Voucher (value of which is determined from the product or service package they purchase from us).
4) The customer you refer to us, will also receive a 10% introductory discount on our list prices, for the total package of products they purchase from us (first purchase only!).
See our Referral Scheme page for more information.
Welcome to the new version of the website! We hope that you like the new design, and find that navigating the site is a lot easier than our previous website.
We recently looked at the products we were offering, and decided that some of them may have been a little confusing to those who visited our website. So we have now simplified the website and our business, to try and focus on our core products and services; Virtual Tours, Digital Photography, Virtual Brochures, and Virtual Videos.
As a result, some of our previous products and services are no longer generally available as of 1st September 2009.
Website Design - Although we design and maintain our own website, there are an awful lot of fantastic website designers out there, and to try and keep on top of all of the new technologies that are constantly being released, would not allow us to focus fully on our core photographic services in the way that we would like to.
Scripting Services - We previoulsy offered UNIX/Linux and OpenVMS scripting, which were our "geeky" products, and to be perfectly honest, were not generating much business for us, which is why we decided to ditch them so we could concentrate more on all of the other cool and fun stuff that we offer!
We are hoping that this new streamlined approach provides you with a better experience on the site, and provides the necessary information that you need concerning our services.
NEW PRODUCT!
As you may have seen, although we have removed some products, we have introduced a new product; VIRTUAL VIDEOS.
Virtual Videos are a really cool product whereby we edit together still photographs, video, music, and captions, into motion videos, that can be inserted easily onto websites.
A very cost effective and low-cost alternative to Virtual Tours, they provide effective marketing for your business, and can help get your message across to your customers with ease.
REFERRAL SCHEME!
As of 1st September 2009 we are now operating a Referral Scheme.
How does this work?
1) You have to be one of our existing customers.
2) You refer someone to us, who purchases one of our products or services.
3) For introducing us to a new customer, we give you a Marks & Spencer Voucher (value of which is determined from the product or service package they purchase from us).
4) The customer you refer to us, will also receive a 10% introductory discount on our list prices, for the total package of products they purchase from us (first purchase only!).
See our Referral Scheme page for more information.
Photographers Rights 2
There are now several high-profile campaings being run concerning the current legislation that is abusing photographers rights.
These draconian laws and misinterpretation of the laws are causing anyone with a camera to be targeted, including foreign tourists; as was reported recently concerning an Austrian Father and Son, who were stopped from taking a photograph of Walthamstow Bus Station!
The Metropolitan Police have issues new guidelines to their officers; http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm but over-zealous officers may still interpret these in anyway they see fit.
The British Journal of Photography has its own campaign running presently, which has the backing of many other photographic organisations (such as the Bureau of Freelance Photgraphers and UKlandscape), and uses the "Not A Crime" slogan. They are encouraging photographers, both amateur and professional to take self-portraits of themselves with a "Not A Crime" or "I Am Not A Terrorist" caption and post them to their campaign website; http://www.not-a-crime.com
There is also an independent campaign http://www.PhotographerNotaTerrorist.org which is also encouraging photographers to take self-portraits with "I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist" captions, and to post via their website.
They organised a flash-mob campaign on Saturday 12th September 2009 at Canary Wharf in London - a spot notorious for photographers to be stopped by the Canary Wharf Security services. Approx. 60 photographers turned up with cameras in hand, and all took some interesting photographs, whilst the Security who were outnumbered, looked on in dismay.
There's more information on: http://www.PhotographerNotaTerrorist.org/events
They have also created a very handy "Stop and Search Bust Card" that any photographer should print out, and carry with them, which cleary states what rights you have as a photographer in a public place, and also what Police Powers may be used against you.
I have added my own picture to show my support, to both of the above campaigns.
"How Photographers Are Perceived In The Eyes Of The Police and Government"
Please give these campaigns your support, before Britain becomes a complete no-photography zone!
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