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Travel writer Rebecca Pickett tells her top tips for taking better amateur travel photos.

Technology is moving faster every day, and creating new and improved ways to take, and share our photos. But what happens in the future? Will our photos still be around if we don't print them? We explore the growing Digital Archeology movement, and ponder whether nostalgia for the past might enrich our futures.

We all know that weddings are expensive. As soon as you stick "wedding" in front of anything it becomes twice the price - venue, dress, flowers, catering. For this reason, a lot of people are going for DIY Weddings - cutting the price of the big day, and saving the cash for other maybe more important things like, say, their lives together.

So here are a few great ways to get lots of fantastic wedding photos without the hefty price tag.

Recently we got in contact with Dale Holmes, one of our Gold members to talk about her Photo Books and the wonderful experiences she has had on her travels. Take a peek at her Photo Book work and some of her tips for creating the perfect Photo Book...

10 Tips for Taking Fantastic Photos of Food.

Want to make a Recipe Book? Obviously the first step is to create and cook some delicious meals worthy of your book. And then you need to take photos of them. But how do you ensure they look as good in your photos as they taste?

Here are some great tips for ensuring you take fantastic food photos, which do your recipes justice.

albumworks has some ideas to help you give the perfect, one-of-a-kind gift this Christmas.

An exploration of the many ways we have told our stories throughout history. From cave paintings and hieroglyphics, through to letters, portraits, and the advent of photography.

In our last exploration of the way we share our stories (Telling Our Stories: Cavemen to Kodak) we reached the invention of photos, and their imporatance in capturing mankind in way that had never been possible before. And so we pick up our journey again, way back in the early days of photography....