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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

15/11/2025

I have five new Christmas cards - the Milford Winter Collection (A5 size) - on sale for the first time tomorrow at the Belper Winter Fair.
They are £2.50 each, but only £10 if you buy any five.

15/11/2025

I have two new Derwent Valley jigsaws on sale at tomorrow's Winter Fair at Belper: Autumn, Belper River Gardens; and Winterscape, Milford.
As I sold several copies of both jigsaws at Strutts' Autumn Fair, this could be your last chance before Christmas to purchase them. I'll be in front of the Belper Ritz 10am - 4pm.

15/11/2025

I have just removed my cover photo showcasing my Derwent Valley photo book because I may well sell the remaining copies at tomorrow's Winter Fair in Belper. I have only seven copies left. If I achieve this, it means a near sell-out of 1,000 copies in exactly two years. I say 'near sell-out' as there is one copy left in Belper's Hall of Frames and there may well be one or two copies left at Cromford Mills and Masson Mill Textile Museum.
Thank you to anyone who bought this book, and even more special thanks to the donors subscribers, sponsors and the 50 photographers whose images were included - you are the saviours of this project.
If you would like to be one of the seven to buy the book tomorrow, here's a few images from the publication which will also be on sale either as mounted prints or jigsaws.
My stall will be in front of the Belper Ritz, tomorrow 10am - 4pm. And the weather will be glorious - honest. Just look at the forecast.

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.

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.

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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