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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

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.

13/08/2025

Alongside the Derby City Photographic Club exhibition at Belper Library from this Saturday, August 16th, is a display of over 50 photos chronicling A Day in the Life of Belper Library, which was produced by me and a fellow member, Liva Paseka.
The photos, all taken over two days in July, are a visual document of the library's life, portraying the staff, volunteers and customers, young and old. It's our love letter to the libraries, hopefully reflecting what they do for their community, especially the children.
Here's three of the images. The exhibiton runs until August 30th.

08/08/2025

I'm delighted to announce that Derby City Photographic Club is holding its first ever exhibition in Belper, which has become our new home. Having built our reputation in the town over two seasons, we wanted to enhance our presence with a display of 43 prints in Belper Library.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, August 16th and runs until the 30th, just a few days ahead of our new season at Strutts Community Centre.
Do come and see our work. It comprises a wide spectrum of subject matter from 24 members.
Also, alongside the exhibition will be a display of 16 prints depicting 'A Day in the Life of Belper Library'.

01/08/2025

Final day in the Val d'Orcia, Tuscany so went out early morn to capture sunflower fields. Googling 'Sunflower fields Tuscany' gave the impression there would be sunflower fields aplenty but this clump of fields in Monteroni d'Arbia is the only major sunflower area within a 40-mile radius of our hotel, which is in the heart of the Val d'Orcia. Still, at least I got a few cypress trees in the pictures, though I was hoping for a castle or folly or - in your dreams, Ash - a willowly maiden in a white dress and wide brimmed sun hat, looking like Carey Mulligan.

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.

26/06/2025

Here is the first dozen images from my recent Tuscany workshop in the Val d'Orcia. It was the best fortnight I have ever experienced in this area, with five atmospheric misty sunrises, two spectacular sunsets, three fresh landscape locations and largely dramatic weather conditions throughout.
I have already filled four of the six places in the first workshop week next May (2nd to 9th). So, if you're interested, message me or contact me via the Tuscany Workshop pages of my website:
https://www.ashleyfranklin.co.uk/tuscany-workshop

23/06/2025

I learnt today that one of the many Tuscany photos in my image library is being used for the cover of a novel by Austrian crime writer Andreas Gruber. Herb Graz - which means Seize the Heart - is a missing persons thriller which takes the investigator to Tuscany. The photo is a cypress tree-lined drive which I take my Tuscany workshop photographers to every May as it's only a few miles from our hotel.
I'm not sure if the red colouring - which I presume depicts blood - works, but when a large sum of cash dropped into my account, I suddenly began to like the cover more.

18/06/2025

.A dozen more photos from Colin & Gill's wonderful garden in Stanley Common on a sunlit summer morning when I walked through a gate to capture their 10-acre woodland idyll. The lake shimmered and the orchids gleamed.

15/06/2025

This scene looked ideal for an infrared treatment. This was taken at a viewing point above the cliff-top town of Sorano in Tuscany. Those two straggly trees and all that foliage just cried out: 'shoot me in IR!'. So I did...

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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