ABOUT
US
A New Life in Australia - Click the Map
NEW
CONTACTS PAGE
Well, as you can see from the
map above Beckham Digital is now based in Australia, Buderim
to be exact, which is north of Brisbane on the Sunshine
Coast. You may be surprised to see our web site address
still appears in your address bar as www.beckhamdigital.co.uk.
Well, the files for a web site can be based anywhere in
the world, so there is little point in our moving the actual
location of those files, which for interest only are situated
in the Isle of Man.
In fact we also now have a
second Australian domain name of www.beckhamdigital.com.au.
So you can reach our site using any of these addresses.
How does our relocation to
Australia change things for regular visitors and new ones?
Well, not a lot really. We are now set up the same as we
were in the UK and we can accept credit card payments in
our shop securely through Worldpay. In addition you can
phone your order directly to us and we can now take credit
cards over the phone. For the time it takes to make an order
in this way, the phone call is not expensive. The number
from within Australia is (07) 547 68168 and from the UK
it is 00617 68168. For UK customers we are also about to
establish a freephone number.
Check our contacts page
for details of that.
Our prices have now been changed
to Australian $, but as you check out of our shop and before
you commit to payment, you can see your purchases in either
United Kingdom £ - American $ - Australian $
In addition there is a great
free web service available at www.xe.com
that we have used for years. You can put any currency value
in one box and select any currency to convert to and hit
go. The web page will do all the work for you and show you
the value in your chosen currency. However, it is currently
Jan 2009 and our DVD prices have been set at $27 Australian
dollars. On www.xe.com
on 20th January 2009 $27 Australian dollars equals:-
$18 American
dollars
£12.52
United Kingdom Pounds
e13.80 European
Euros
Delivery times for all products
are 2-3 days in the UK and Australia and obviously longer
for any other world destinations.
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Carol
and Barry have been involved with photography for over 30
years and this web site evolved from their association with
photography over that time. Barry began writing step by
step tutorials for Digital PhotoFX, now Digital Photo from
when that magazine was first launched. That writing had
to be curtailed a few years ago when Carol and Barry moved
to the City of Ely in Cambridgeshire.
Barry's
commute to London each day to work used up most of the time
he used to spend writing for Digital Photo. Sadly, it soon
became a little too much trying to hold down demanding full
time employment, while being committed to Digital Photo.
Incidentally Barry's full time employment was not connected
to Photography in any way, which has surprised a number
of people who just assumed that it was.
In
August 2006 Barry retired from the work that he had done
for the past 30 years on London's Buses. As Operations Director
for two London Companies he felt the time was right to concentrate
on other things. This retirement at 57 has allowed Barry
to do spend more time on photography, but he says that he
has no intention of swapping a job for a job. However, early
retirement has allowed Barry and Carol to do their own thing
and put more into their tutorials and this web site, but
also to enjoy life and their leisure time.
Carol
and Barry have built up quite an experience in photography
dating back to film, development and darkroom work, through
to Audio Visual using twin projectors and now into digital
of course. Their work has been 100% digital using Canon
SLR digital cameras for many years now.
Barry
is the author of a book called The Photographers Guide to
Digital Photography, based on Photoshop Elements, which
has been updated from the original Elements 2, up through
versions 3 and 4. Barry had plans to write a book on digital
AV, but publishers are wary about such a venture until the
software widely used becomes available for the Mac operating
system as well as Windows.
With more time on his hands Barry accepted the invitation
to do some writing for Photography Monthly and also Professional
Photographer magazines on a freelance basis. Why those magazines?
because Will Cheung asked him at a time when he then had
the time and the idea appealed to him.
Barry has continued to record movie tutorials and the Beckham
Digital DVD Catalogue is growing all the time. Many older
titles are now in the process of being updated. Software
doesn't stand still and at the time of writing there are
many new developments. 
Barry
and Carol's aim is to continue to produce more movie tutorials
on DVD, but they are also committed to that one to one personal
touch, giving full support and above all retaining good
quality recordings that not only educate but inspire too.
Lectures
Check
them out before you go on the menus to the left. Barry gives
talks at Camera Club evening meetings, but favors full day
demos better. He says that there is not quite enough time
in the average club evening to cover the subjects at the
pace he would like. However, the talks seem to be appreciated
and the requests to return to do more come in regularly.
Barry
also does small group talks with 4 people and one to one
tuition when requested. Details can be found on the menus
to the left or via a phone call.
Although the move to Australia has meant these seminars
have been suspended, please call if you want to get together
before he leaves the UK. (This looks like being around
October 2008)
Once
settled in Australia with their new home Barry and Carol
will reintroduce these seminars as well club demos and lectures.
