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Facebook Cover Graphics FREE download
For something alittle bit different why not have your name on a graphic for your Facebook cover image. Feel free to get any from here, alternatively just complete the form below and we’ll be happy to email you one for Free. If you have a particularly long name it is best to use a shortened version or nickname instead.
Using our Love, Peace, Happiness, joy background with your name in the foreground in bright vivid colours. Let us know what colour variation you would prefer 1-4 below. Remember the graphics are free for you to use on Facebook. Higher resolution versions are also available to use for larger format printing. They do look cool printed bigger. £20 for the digital file. All copies must retain the miketurnerphotos.co.uk wording to use.
Write once read forever MDisc – Don’t lose your memories!
Did you know that storage devices used at the moment have a limited storage life of less than 10 years? Which means you could lose your precious photographs, data, and music. I really didn’t realise this myself so looked further into it, this is what if found out…
Hard Drives have two disadvantages
- Mechanical failure can occur any time due to the rotation depreciation.
- Data will be vanished due to the earth magnetic field. In most cases the data corruption starts when data is not re-written within 5 years.
Flash Memory: Flash memory has problem for data retention
- Over time, the cells will lose their charge state. Approximately 5-7 years.
Magnetic Tape: This is the most common long-term archiving technology
- Very sensitive to the storage environment, humidity and temperature must be well-controlled or the tape will fail
- Standard practice is to re-build the archive every 3 years to ensure the archive
Solid State Disk ( SSD )
- SSD is working on the same technology as Flash memory, hence not suitable as data retention media.
Optical Media ( CD-R/DVD±R/Blu-Ray ):
- Optical drive is the most common use data carrier system
- The lifetime of optical media is highly depended on the storage environment
- Very sensitive for the UV.
None of these storage media lasts longer than 8 years…scary if you have lots of images archived thinking they provide lasting memories that you can come back to again and again.
MDiscs can hold data for 1000 years! I liked the product so much I bought the company…only joking. But we do now sell the discs here. They are genuine Ritek manufactured discs (created by Millenniata) that we get directly from the exclusive UK distributors. They have an anti-scratch surface (unlike many in the market). Please read the technical data and compatibility data PDF below for further information before making a purchase. M-DISC Introduction-Traxdata-R and Final Technical Report1
Traxdata M-DISC DVD Printable
3 x M-DISC in “3 in 1” silver DVD box.
You will need the starter pack if you don’t already own a M-Disc writer.
Starter-kit: LG External slim M-Ready
writer + 3 x M-DISC in retail pack
If you’re interested in purchasing any of these products please drop me an email and I can give you an idea of prices etc
Run a Facebook Competition and get more customers
- Encourage more likes for your Facebook page,
- Increase your customer base,
- Engage with your community,
- Create buzz and chatter about your brand
All good reasons to host a photo competition on your Facebook page.
We can do all the integration for you, while you just sit back and reap the benefits. Drop me an email for further information. £60 for 2 week competition…you can’t go wrong.
I increased my page likes by over 100 within 48 hours, 300 overall, booked in 10 sessions from the competition. You can further boost your competition by promoting it using Facebook’s ‘Promote post’ paid service and aim it at your target market or/and use Google’s Adwords to boost traffic to your page. Both these methods involve investing a little bit more capital, but can significantly boost your competitions visibility. I have used both to get more eyeballs on the competition, which hopefully sells itself once people arrive at the page. You can promote either through a daily budget or lifetime (of the competition) budget, from as little as you like. We would be happy to advise you what has worked for us in this respect.
Our aim is to help photographers by providing solutions that equate to profit, that can be easily measured for ROI. We want to build long term relationships with other photographers for the mutual benefit of the industry. Please get in touch with me if you are interested.
Below are some pointers about what is important about running your own Facebook Competition.
Enjoying the Garden
We’re enjoying the weather while we can, great to be able to sit out in the garden on a very warm and sunny August day. I just wish we had more of these kind of days in the UK. Hazel is a keen gardener and has certainly got green fingers. So while I sat in garden I thought I would capture some of the wonderful colours we have around us, hope you enjoy them too.
Making sure the light is coming from a direction other than from your camera position provides more interesting image, otherwise it can appear somewhat flat, which isn’t particularly appealing. A good rule of thumb is having the sun at between 45 – 80 degrees to your camera position and the subject you are photographing.
Get an interesting composition, I prefer close up shots myself as you can see. Using a shallow depth of field helps to blur the background, I was using f5.6 for this shot. This isn’t a macro lens so I couldn’t get particularly close to the flowers and achieve focus, but I used the zoom to fill the frame more.
I would love to know which image you prefer and why
