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Have you heard about St George’s Day?
St George’s Day was celebrated in Derby city centre last Saturday with games, archery and dances and greetings to the dragon who was visibly struggling from a running nose – I wonder why?
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Soothing Photography Competition and Impressionistic Photos
Creating impressions with the use of ICM (intentional camera movements) has been for a long time one of my favourite camera techniques. It’s what I start with when I go to a photoshoot or what I end up doing just because I like it so much. I find these photos very soulful and very satisfying […]
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‘But you have a family!’ – On Photography, Competition, Trauma, Change and Performance
I like to improve. To do better and be better. I love coaches, teachers and mental health professionals. I like to advance. But in the last two years I wasn’t full of pick-me-up stories myself. I was the opposite (that’s a long story to be told at a different opportunity). Partially, it was because I […]
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Multilingualism, Photography and Family Communication
It’s not easy to raise children in today’s highly pressured environment, let alone to grow their language skills steadily in multiple languages when they are just growing up so quickly and find themselves under pressure too: to achieve and to perform. I bet you often find yourselves tired and lost for words or you simply […]
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December Newsletter
A winning entry in the Rolls-Royce Photographic Society Contest won by Alicja Pyszka-Franceschini I’ve been sitting here for a couple of hours trying to write this newsletter. Truth be told, I have never written a newsletter before and reaching out to people is not a common practice of mine, albeit I would like to make […]
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Portrait, Purple, ICM
Modern portrait. My work. In the photograph Leyla @lili_rose_tulips Purple is a colour of maturity. It calls me a lot recently. It asks for attention. It makes me happy because it tells me that my inner adult wants to find it’s voice. Maybe a wise strong woman.. It also calls for cooperation, preparation and courageous […]
Alicja Pyszka-Franceschini
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Alicja Pyszka-Franceschini 