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Ashley Franklin Photography

Name: Ashley Franklin Photography
Address: Belper, DE560, GB
Telephone: +441332843908
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I am a pro photographer who runs an annual workshop in Tuscany and sells photo art prints, photo jigsaws and the first ever photo book of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site

27/10/2025

I'm delighted at being chosen by Britain's best photo magazine Outdoor Photography for a four-page Portfolio feature in the November issue showcasing my favourite woodland haunt: The Chevin, that wondrous walkway above my house.
As my text reads: 'Up here, camera in hand, I can forget debts, doubts and disquietudes by wrapping myself in this intimate landscape where, under verdant canopies, sit gnarled, tangled and tentacular trees including, in the poetic words of a visitor known as Old Frith, age-old oaks which ‘lean in as if for a quiet word’.
I hear The Chevin calling every autumn, especially when mist descends'.

23/10/2025

I will have three new jigsaws on sale (for the first time) at Strutts Autumn Market this Saturday 10am - 3pm.
One shows Heage Windmill in all its six-sail glory, another depicts Belper River Gardens in the autumn, and the third shows Milford in the snow. Six other jigsaws will be on sale.
Each jigsaw is unique (no one else I know is selling photos of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site as jigsaws) and costs £19.95, with £2 of each sale going to Prostate Cancer UK. £100 has alreadey been banked as we head towards a national screening programme.
See you on Saturday.

23/10/2025

I'll be there, focusing on the sales of my Derwent Valley jigsaws, mounted prints and Christmas cards. Details to come in future posts...

11/10/2025

I'm still exploring the world of infrared, having only converted my Canon six months ago, and it's been exhilirating, not least in finding how the mundane becomes magical. Look, for example, at the two images of a field of wildflowers which I came across at the National Memorial Arboretum. When taken in colour they looked ok but, in infrared, the scene looks otherworldy and, if I may be so bold, sublime.
The other three shots were taken in Tuscany.

06/10/2025

This Tuesday, October 7th, Derby City Photographic is holding a Members Lecture by Clare O'Flanagan, entitled Diary of a Deviant - Explorations of an Urbex Photographer.
This is the world premiere of this talk which will reveal one of the most fascinating areas of photography. Clare will show us extraordinary images captured in abandoned factories, houses, hospitals, military units, churches, warehouses, mines, prisons and many other deserted and forgotten places, images taken largely in the UK but also across Europe, including Chernobyl.
‘What draws me to these places’ says Clare, ‘is that they reveal the hidden, overlooked side of the world. There’s something compelling about capturing decay, silence and forgotten history, and where traces of human presence linger.’
Visitors are welcome - admission is only £4. The venue is: Room 107, Strutts Community Centre, Belper DE56 1UU. 7.30pm.

03/10/2025

Sigur Ros performing at a packed Royal Albert Hall last night along with the 40-piece London Contemporary Orchestra. Towards the end, as you'll see in my photo, the band were joined by a boys’ choir – the Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan school – while above them a musician helms the Albert Hall’s colossal, 9,999 pipe grand organ.
It was one of THE great concerts. The four-star Guardian review by Patrick Clark got it just right when he wrote of the band's 'grand orchestral crescendos... as glacial in pace as they are in beauty.'
I first saw this world tour in Stockholm but the the Albert Hall, with its immense grandeur and superior acoustics somehow enhanced the beauty and grace of the music, the Sigur Ros's dreamy art-rock songs blending seamlessly with the strings and brass as if Sigur Ros and orchestra were a single organism. I sat there spellbound.
Highlight? A song called Skel from Atta, the album of the century... https://sigurros.bandcamp.com/track/skel

29/09/2025

I am just about ready to print some new Christmas cards. I've selected three definites and I need three more from these six, all taken on The Chevin. I'd welcome your thoughts on these six. I know that three sets of photos are very similar but I'm torn as to which ones to choose. I'm even wondering if I should I go with two similar images and one from the other four.

16/09/2025

When your village revives a horticultural show, you know you're part of a real village, so I felt proud to be asked to take photos at the 2025 Milford & Makeney Flower & Produce Show.
The organisers are to be congratulated along with the villagers who rose to the challenge. And how... last year's event attracted 27 entrants and 100 entries. This year saw a 40% rise, with 37 entrants and 145 entries.
Some lovely memories here... the pervading smell of fresh bread when the bread entrant brought his loaf in fresh from the oven at home... the proud smile on the faces of the junior trophy winners... the cheery presence of Elaine & Glenys of the Potty Plotters programme on Radio Derby... the curvy courgette that won 1st prize... the ugly veg plus the long, pointy parsnip... David Moreton's fabulous shirt... the precision judging... and, best of all, the moment I photographed one of the judges cutting into my wife Francine's Victoria sponge and saying something like 'what a beautiful spongy texture'... she came second. There's always next year...
PS: the photos of the parsnip, the ugly veg and the judges gazing at a green plant are by Alan Carr.

31/08/2025

This Tuesday, September 2nd at 7.30pm in Room 107 of the Strutts Community Centre, my camera club - Derby City Photographic - will begin its third season in Belper. And what a special season opener we have...
Matlock-based landscape photographer JAMES MILLS rarely gives talks, yet has been taking stunning landscape images for over 10 years. In his talk, James will take us on a photographic journey, showing atmospheric Peak District woodlands in mist through to his exciting experiments with light-painting landscapes at night. Some of his work is pictured here.
Do join us at Strutts: visitors are charged only £4 and we feel that once you pick up our new season brochure, you will want to come again, maybe to catch a talk on portrait, landscape, architecture, nature, wedding, urbex or audio-visual photography.
To see our full programme on the club's website, click here: https://www.derbycitypc.co.uk/

18/08/2025

Last week I ad-ventured out (even us old gits can invent new words) into The Chevin with my infrared camera for the first time, and continue to be wowed by the way IR creates a strange, mystical and spectral place. Mind you, it helps that I'm in an otherworldy setting like The Chevin . I'm still experimenting with the medium but that's what makes it so exhilarating.

17/08/2025

The Derby City Photographic Club exhibition is now on at Belper Library. There are 43 prints from 24 members in the main exhibition, with a supplementary exhibition - A Day in the Life of Belper Library - comprising 51 photos in 16 mounted prints. It runs until August 30th.
Members of the club will be in attendance throughout the exhibition so you can find out more about Derby City, whose new season opens at Strutts Community Centre on Tuesday, September 2nd.

29/06/2025

Here's a second set of images from my workshop in Tuscany last May. The more I look at these images, the more I am convinced that they're the best I've produced out of 12 visits to the area. All the sights you see here are available to you if you care to join me and my fellow tutor Ian Daisley in May 2026. Four out of the six places in the first week - May 2nd-9th - are already taken so it's almost certain there will be a second week - May 9th to 16th.

Address

Belper
DE560

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	8am - 8pm
Sunday	8am - 8pm

Telephone

+441332843908

Website

http://www.ashleyfranklin.co.uk/

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