Who is going to be first to offer the 360 degree tour picture sets for weddings or events. A growing phemonenen in the US but not actually being offered widely to clients in the UK. Good quality DVD memory pakages seem to be slow to take off in a quality format. Let us know if you offer these services so we can pass them on to our customers.
We are very pleased to announce a pre-launch of a childs education book.
Is your child starting school next year or has just started school this year?
Are you a little apprehensive about his or hers introduction and initial achievement in that most important subject - READING. Do you want to ensure he or she starts reading confidently, with enjoyment?
Has your child started school already, but makes excuses and starts to fidget when asked to read at home.
All childrens reading schemes have a family character but these characters initially have no meaning to the child, how much more sensible is it to begin reading with familiar characters. This will create a confidence and enjoyment in reading and an “ownership” which will hopefully carry on to the childrens writing when they create their own stories for others to read.
The book provides:
We will initially be launching four books
All you need to do have is 17 pictures within the context of the book and simply provide us with the name. We also include names of brothers and sisters.
For example the Going On Holiday Book will have a picture of the child (with brother or sister) laughing and the text is the names or names are happy. The book also has simple adult tips to help you achieve the most out of the time you spend reading the book.
This product will be on this site to buy shortly. If you are interested in pre-ordering please contact us at
customersupport@reflectionsofyou.co.uk
An added benefit is the book lasts. It is a record or album of your child in a particular exciting time. You will keep the book and in years to come still keep looking back at when your child first made steps in learning.
Very young children learn faster from picture books that contain colour photographs than from books with colour drawings, according to research.
The findings suggest that the beautifully illustrated and iconic pictures in classic children’s literature, beloved by parents and grandparents alike, may appeal more to the parent than the 18-month-old child.
Psychologists say their study shows that illustrated books play a much greater role than simply entertaining toddlers, by helping them understand how the world works.
It was well known that picture books helped four- and five-year-olds learn, they said, but until now it was harder to assess what toddlers actually learned. For the study, researchers read toddlers a picture book that described how to make a toy rattle.
Thirty-six children aged 18 months were then asked to mimic actions that had been shown in the book using three objects - a wooden ball, a stick attached to a plastic lid and a plastic jar. The children scored twice as well when they had looked at a colour photograph book of a rattle being made than when they looked at a book with coloured pencil drawings.
While none could make the rattle, most put the ball in the jar and about half tried attaching the lid to the jar.
Gabrielle Simcock, of the University of Queensland, and Judy DeLoache, of the University of Virginia, said: “The younger the child, the more difficult it is to appreciate the relation between a symbol - a picture - and what it stands for.
“And if there is any difference between the mental image they form from looking at the picture and the real objects - as would be the case with drawings, but not photos - they failed to see them as related.
“So the nature of pictures in children’s books can play a crucial role in learning.”
The National Literacy Trust said that while a photograph may help a child learn a specific action, it could not convey the depth of meaning of a Quentin Blake-style illustration.
“Maybe if you want to instruct a child to do something, a clear picture is better. A child will learn in the pure sense of the word,” said the trust’s Liz Attenborough, a children’s publisher for 24 years. “But if you want to tell a story, and stimulate the imagination, how dull is a photograph of a series of posed ‘fairies’ in a fairytale, for example?
“If you are a small child, often you will see things in a drawn picture that the adult will not see - the subtext, if you like, the small animal or character at the back. And how would you take a photograph of a fox striding past a chicken?”
Many publishers of children’s books have turned to photographs to appeal to youngsters who have been introduced to the character through a television series.
The research is published in the journal Developmental Psychology by the American Psychological Association.
We have been sent images already to create memory books from the game yesterday. Apparently without sleep and far too much lubricant people can create photo books. Hats off to the England Rugby fans, not a light weight amongst them.
The pre-release of new personalised images is now available. We have extended the range from those shown on the ReflectionsOfYou.co.uk calendar pages.
These images can be personalised with a name and a message that actually sits in the image itself. This is top end graphic technology and can be used not only for the calendars on this site but you can create CHRISTMAS CARDS, POSTERS, WALLPAPER, INVITES, PACKAGING, CHOCOLATES and so on. In fact anything you can create we will help you make it happen.
If you want to see the full range and an early preview of the images contact us at
We are actively looking for input from photographers around products and servcies they feel would benefit them. If you have ideas around what you would like to see we can comile this information to deliver what YOU want as opposed to what we feel you want.
Come and Help develop new products and services, come and tell us your ideas and however off the wall they are we will look at it and see if it is possible.
We have just launched a new link module to our blog. This enables the visitors access to other organisations that offer services relevant to events that involve professional or amateur photography. We will vet each applicant to ensure the service is well regarded. But, please approach us with your views on services and the people that supply them and if its a good organisation and we can feel confident about them and service we will place links to their web site on here.
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