Focal View Digital ePublishing welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with Americymru because we have a shared aim to bring people together and find ways to make the most of interests and skills.

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Focal View

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Focal View aims to support creative photography of all levels through training, competitions, e-publishing collections and books, portfolio presentation and profitable collaboration with writers and poets.

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Who is Focal View?

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We are a business partnership with many years of combined experience

Brian has a long background in advertising and professional photography, is a member of the Royal Photographic Society, a photography tutor and also an international competition judge.

Adrian is a teacher trainer, ex-head teacher, environmental educationalist and computing trainer. He creates and manages the web-site, digital publishing and presentation of work.

Together, we have found a way to support all those with a passion for the creative image and to present their developing expertise to the world. We have a special aim to make pictures work. We do this by finding photographers through the competitions we run and judge, presenting photography through eBooks and portfolios and then going the extra distance to promote new authors work and then going on to find the opportunities for them to collaborate commercially with writers and poets.

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Now with Americymru

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We have the ideal opportunity to promote new authors and photographers together.

ETO brings together new writers and poets in the biennial compendium of stories which in turn provides excellent collaborative opportunities for photographic illustration. This leads to an illustrated version of ETO as well as individually published new collaborative eBooks which form strong beginnings to what we hope will be long and successful careers in both writing and photography for a purpose.

We have another strong link. Focal View began as a business based in Wales and most of the photographic contribution has come from new photographers in Welsh clubs and societies. Our word has spread through kind recommendation and we now take in work from around the world. It was through these connections, that we discovered Americymru and in particular, the American Welsh Bookstore and Ceri Shaw.

Americymru is all about Wales abroad and provides cultural ties with what to many is their home country even though these connections might sometimes be through past generations.

This shared interest in the culture of Wales and the opportunities that working together affords, enables modern connections through writing and photography, which will bring people together and make for new friendships and understanding.

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The Focal View Americymru International Salon

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We are expanding this process now by inviting photographers at all levels, anywhere in the world, to enter the Focal View Americymru International Salon competition.

The competition is free to enter. There is a two month cycle and the top five images are awarded prizes that include publishing opportunities. The current competition cycle will also provide the front cover of the next edition of ETO

We publish all images by permission and so new work can be seen all over the world. We undertake to look for collaboration opportunities as well.

Visit http://www.focalview.co.uk/americymru_international.html to learn more and to find out how to submit your entries.

The competition is open to anyone anywhere and to maximize the commercial potential of your winning images, we recommend you purchase the latest edition of ETO and use this as your base material to illustrate. ETO is included in the fees for the Focal View Photographic Course. The competition winning criteria are based upon the likely value of the image for commercial collaboration.

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Focal View Photographic Course

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For all those not sure about your skills and potential for collaborative illustration, we provide our training course which specifically sets out to enable new photographers to know where and which images to take and how to fit them into writing.

The Focal View Photographic Course runs for ten weeks from enrolment and includes individual tuition and image critiquing as well as a full copy of ETO. All tutorial and learning resources are included as well as entry into the international salon. Images are chosen by the Course Tutor and a selection panel of professional photographers.

A feature of the course is the opportunity for literally anyone with a reasonable camera, from whatever background, to learn more about commercial photography and to start bringing a hobby and a passion into a financially rewarding business opportunity.

Experience is optional but enthusiasm is essential.

Visit this url - http://www.focalview.co.uk/fv_photo_course.html to enrol on the Focal View Photographic Course

Focal View is a photographers website. We offer training, we support and present excellent images through our portfolio exhibitions and we look for commercial opportunities. We are a limited business in that we focus only on photographic excellence. We critique and judge to the highest recognized standards and we present exhibition images to other photographers. This means that criticism of new work is constructive and detailed. We know that serious photographers would expect nothing less.