AJOPhoto RSS Feedhttp://www.focusphotos.com/index.htmlAJOPhoto News...eninfo@focusphotos.comCopyright 2009 Andrew Johnstone Photography.2010-08-19T15:36:42+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:30:36 +0100Big Move!info@focusphotos.comhome photography2010-08-19T15:36:42+01:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/80f970276c853a3120b4705059000075-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/80f970276c853a3120b4705059000075-12.html#unique-entry-id-12Well the big news is that after nearly 10 years here in France we are set to move home to Devon in the UK. Really looking forward to making the change though it will be sad to see the last of our beautiful house in the Tarn, but it is time to move on!
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Our son Robert (11) is starting ‘big school’ next term and the opportunities that school in the UK have to offer are fantastic - drama, sport, music, art, technology and design and computing - all aspects of the curriculum which are issing from French schools as far as I can see. There was a really interesting feature on the BBC about the French school system - so your don’t just have to trake my word for it. See http://bbc.in/8YIUEB

I’ll still be available for assignments in SW France - I have a base in Toulouse with friends, but otherwise I’ll be working from Devon for the forseeable future!






]]>Boxes Pro and Decorateinfo@focusphotos.comWeb Design RapidWeaver2010-07-03T06:29:49+01:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/6fac1406a872b2267b2aeb09589e7e50-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/6fac1406a872b2267b2aeb09589e7e50-11.html#unique-entry-id-11I have two new themes for RapidWeaver available via my Web Store - Decorate and Boxes Pro.
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Both themes include animated JQuery Menus, sliding boxes and my own home made Twitter snippet, as well as a host of other handy features. I have worked hard to make both themes standards compliant and they work neatly across all broswers.
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]]>Simon Blake's New Siteinfo@focusphotos.comWeb2010-01-26T16:56:23+00:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/347a952b8ee80f78007c281c34ae1dd2-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/347a952b8ee80f78007c281c34ae1dd2-10.html#unique-entry-id-10My latest web projecty has just gone live. I just finished a new site for my mate Simon Blake, film and theatre director and screen writer. Please check out the link at:

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]]>Nile film Updateinfo@focusphotos.comFilm2010-01-26T16:48:03+00:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/be13bcfc5659f3ca99b951c4be514dd8-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/be13bcfc5659f3ca99b951c4be514dd8-9.html#unique-entry-id-9The hot news is that Death of the Nile? as been picked up by NHK in Japan. The film has also been screening on the guardian website for the past month or so, racking up 11,000 views, which is double the normal viewing figures for films on the Guardian's site! I am very excited and I hope we'll get the chance to finish the project if we can get a bite from one of the major networks.

The link to the Guardian site is here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/jan/15/climate-change-nile

Please take a look if you have the time.]]>Two3Five released!info@focusphotos.comWeb RapidWeaver2009-09-01T07:47:00+01:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/bb8aa9179067edbe939d8785f0cdefe7-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/bb8aa9179067edbe939d8785f0cdefe7-8.html#unique-entry-id-8
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Two3Five]]>Grant for Nile Filminfo@focusphotos.comFilm photography2009-10-20T06:42:44+01:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/d2db07ebb4272249049a2b1d34c3e98c-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/d2db07ebb4272249049a2b1d34c3e98c-7.html#unique-entry-id-7I am really please to annouce that I have been awared a development grant by the Commonwealth Brodcasting Assocation CBA, as part of the DIFD funded CBA Media Development Scheme for my new film project "Death of the NIle?" documentary film project.

The CBA DFID funding is aimed at journalists and filmmakers develop projects and programming
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focusing on development issues in Commonwealth countries and in these tough econmic times, with TV and media budgets being cut, the scheme is more important than ever in helping to produce films that raise awareness on develpoment issues. You can read more about the CBA Media Development Scheme here:

http://www.cba.org.uk/CBA-DFID/index.php

The funding means that I have been able to do further research and development work on the film project and also fund a trip to Uganda for several days shooting. We'll also be shooting several key interviews in the UK and to day I am in Aberystwyth in Wales to interview Dr Henry Lamb about his current project work on Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

We plan to post regular updates on this blog about the film project and the forth coming trips.

More later!]]>RapidWeaver Themesinfo@focusphotos.comWeb2009-06-26T08:13:05+01:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/eb8a9ed8af4547b17d0b2c2d6e37aea2-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/eb8a9ed8af4547b17d0b2c2d6e37aea2-4.html#unique-entry-id-4

Searching for a great new look for your website? Then what about trying out one of my new themes for Mac web design software RapidWeaver.

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Ice Cream is a fresh new theme, on the market just in time for the long hot summer and Boxes is specially designed for displaying photography on the web.


Both themes are now available at my new Web Store and you can grab yourself a super deal as I am offering a bundle deal - two new themes for the price of one and a bit! Nice one!

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As some of you may know, I’ve been messing about with web sites for an awfully long time now and at the last count I had redesigned my own focusphots.com site no less that 5 times in the past 5 years. So for better or worse here we go with Focusphotos v6.0!

The new design has been made possible by my switch to using Rapidweaver from Realmac Software. Now don’t get me wrong some of the other software I have used in the past is very good, programmes like Freeway from Softpress are excellent design tools and are better for some projects. But Rapidweaver is a delight and much more flexible than it seems when your first open the tin. It has allowed me to have my own blog for a start - which depending on how you look at things may or may not be a good thing!

In these trouble times, adding strings to your bow is what it is all about. I’ve already started to offer courses and begun shooting weddings and the upshot of my acquisition of Rapidweaver is that I am now able to offer my own web design service. The sites I produce are all fairly simple, highly geared around photography and what is more I can bang them out quickly and inexpensively. The average website can take weeks to build using other authoring tools, but I can turn projects round fast - depending on the levels of complexity of course ad on the quality of the clients content! I am also now able to offer web hosting on my own dedicated, secure servers so frankly its all pretty whiz bang!

If you are interested in a new website, give me a call.

Andy

]]>WD films on The Water Channelinfo@focusphotos.comFilm2009-04-14T10:58:09+01:00http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/7c4d19e8aa3be9e1ac30a2a36c6ba5b9-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.focusphotos.com/Blog/files/7c4d19e8aa3be9e1ac30a2a36c6ba5b9-2.html#unique-entry-id-2NB poster

Hot news, the full length versions of three of my previous films for Wild Dog Limited have now been added to the Water Channel.

Follow these links to the following films:

The Nile, our river (Development and civil society in the Nile Basin)

Money into Water, Water into Money (Access to water for the poor in Ethiopia)

SecureWater (Water and sanitation for the poor in Kenya, Sri Lanka and India)

The films are all presented as flash videos so they are viewable on most computer systems. Please take a look and if you like please regster with the Water Channel, log in and rate the films!

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