About the pictures ...
I currently use a Canon EOS 50D to take my photos. Though some older images where taken with a Fujifilm S7000 or a Canon EOS IX7.
I take my photos in RAW format and develop them in Adobe Photoshop's built in
RAW converter. Most of my black and white
images have been taken in colour and later been converted into black and white, using Photoshop.
In my images I strive to capture mood as well as visually stimulating cut outs of every day life.... and see myself more as an image creator rather then a photographer.
All pictures are copyrighted. If you are interested in using a photo for web or print then
please contact me on
dorit@a-picture-a-day.com
or use the contact form on the right hand side.
A selection of images are available as greeting cards, prints, canvas prints or framed and matted prints on:
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I am also a member of the
ART for Cancer Group. 50% of sales proceeds from a selection my photographs will be donated to Cancer Research UK and/or Macmillan Cancer Support.
About me ...
My name is Dorit Fuhg and I'm originally from Lauter in Saxony, Germany. After living and working in Switzerland for 3 years and in Norway for a summer season,
I came to Bournemouth, UK in 2001. What was meant to be a half year stay to learn English,
turned into some sort of permanent residency.
Well, plans don't always work out and living in Bournemouth is not too bad after all.
I now live in Southbourne, a lovely district of Bournemouth and work for a commercial property agency in databases and system developments.
Currently I'm studying part time towards a CIW - Certified Internet Webmaster certification with NITLC (the National IT Learning Centre).
I have already completed several modules and hold diplomas for "Advanced Database Design" and
"Global Communications/ Web Design". In order to pass the Web Design module I had to demonstrate that
I'm able to use HTML and CSS effectively to build a website by hand coding only. The completed website
can be viewed here:
www.feinschmeckerschule.de.
I thoroughly enjoyed the process of planning, designing,
coding and publishing the website, so I decided to build one for myself, which is the one you are on
right now.
Recently I have built two more websites which I'm proud to be able to add to my professional web design portfolio.
epcsouth.com and
onceuponatease.com.
I will also soon be launching my freelance webdesign site,
designgrove.com.
Of course my live is not all about working and studying... even though sometimes if feels like it. Whenever
I have a minute I either go out to take pictures. For me
that's just the best way to relax. When taking a picture and focusing on the subject I can forget
everything else around me...
About this site ...
The main reason for building this website was to practice my newly learned HTML and CSS skills. Above all I wanted
to tackle the challenge of building a website that adapts to different screen sizes, hence the "liquid" layout.
If you don't know what I mean, resize your browser window. You'll see that the actual main content width adapts to the browser width.
Some features on this site, like the flash picture galleries, have been built by very clever coders, who put there
codes and scripts on the web for others to use. Many thanks to you all.
As my hobby and passion is photography, over the years I took a large amount of pictures, and all they do is "gathering dust"
on my hard drive. I thought it'd be a shame not to do anything with them. So here they are. And new ones are of course added on a regular basis.
You might wonder why I named the website "a picture a day". Well, when I bought the domain name in 2006 it sounded
like a good idea to take one picture every day but soon I realized it's
not going to happen. It started out alright until one day I just couldn't find
the time to take and post a picture, so the next day it had to be two pictures,
which took me all evening... I now stoped putting myself under the pressure of having
to take a picture a day - I have too many other things to get on with. Though I will keep the name
of the website for now.