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Christmas Offers

In the run up to Christmas we are all looking for something special to give to our friends and family as a special treat, a special present.

I am offering a range of photographic gifts which I hope you will find of interest.

• A new Framed Print offer, especially for Christmas
• A half-day tuition voucher
• My 2023 Calendar now includes delivery for £10 – a great stocking filler

Framed Print



In order to keep the costs to a minimum, I am offering a special product, a Framed Print, which will be offered during November and delivered in December.

The frame will be black, 50cm x 40cm with a white mount, with the picture window being 40cm x 30cm.

Choose any image you like

You can choose any picture you like to be framed. To help you choose, I have added an option on mywebsite to order a ‘Framed Print’, but if the image you want is on social media, then that’s fine too.

You can choose any image from my website, from any of the Galleries and to help I have added a Local Scenes gallery which you may find of interst.

If you wish to find and order an image from Facebook, please go to my profile at:
https://www.facebook.com/grwiffen/ click on the 3 dots on the right-hand side and use the ‘Search’ to find whatever you’re looking for …. E.g. stag, deer, Keyhaven, Lymington, Milford. When you find the image you want, please take note of the date and either take a screen shot, or just remember the image.

Then, please send me an email to let me know what image you’d like and I will raise an order for you. An invoice will be emailed to you.



Limited Time Offer
All orders for this offer must be placed by December 3rd.

Order Fulfilment
In order to meet the offered price of just £35 per print, I am asking for all order to be placed by December 3rd. I will then be ordering with my suppliers, collating all orders and arranging delivery or pickup by mid December.

All orders will be fulfilled by December 15th.

Please note that this offer is for local orders only within a 5 mile radius of Milford on Sea. Local delivery is offered to the following areas only: Lymington, Barton on Sea, Sway, Keyhaven, New Milton & Milford on Sea.

If you are outside this area but can pickup, that will be accepted.

Unframed Print

If you decide you’d prefer not to have the frame, but would like just the print instead, then I do that too. A3 prints are available at the special discounted price of just £25.

I am offering A3 prints at £25 each, which is a huge 44% discount on the usual price of £45.

All prints are offered unmounted and unframed.

As with the framed print offer below, all orders must be placed by December 3rd and will be delivered by December 15th.

Local orders will be free of any p&p costs, otherwise usual p&p charges will apply.

Tuition Voucher



A voucher allowing you access to a half-day session with me to cover any aspect of photography you’d like to focus on for just £45.

You can either buy this for someone else as a gift, or you can buy it for yourself. It’s up to you.

The session can be used as a practical day, out in the field, focusing on landscape, seascape, wildlife … or whatever subject you’d like to choose, or it can be used as a focus on post-processing, looking at what can be achieved using Photoshop, Bridge or Lightroom.

The vouchers will be offered with a 12-month timeframe, so that will need to be used up by next Christmas at the latest.

A wonderful present for anyone you know who is into photography, who would like to improve their skills and take things to the next level.

2023 Calendar



My 2023 calendar has been available for some time now, but in the run up to Christmas I have decided to offer these with free delivery. The price remains at £10, but now p&p is free.

I only have a few of these left and when they’re gone, that’s it, so don’t delay.
Order yours here

My 2023 Calendar is now launched
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Strawberry Supermoon rising above the Needles
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The SS Carbon shipwreck lies in Compton Bay, on the Isle of Wight and went down in 1947.
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The 2022 Calendar is now available from Graham Wiffen Photography
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A selection of the best images posted during Lockdown 2020
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A selection of my images have been chosen for awards in the Lymington Flower Festival 2019.
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An exhibition of images from the Solent, by Graham Wiffen, shown in the Solent Cafe, in Elmers Court Hotel, Lymington. The exhibition was organised by Lymington Camera Club.
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I was lucky enough to attend the SMX Motorcross event last Sunday up at Elvetham in Hampshire, as part of a visiting group from the Lymington Camera Club.

It was my first ever live action motor cross, so I was very excited to see the event, camera in hand.

It was a fast-paced, action-packed event, that was noisy, busy, but full of colour, smells, dirt, dust and many, many riders.

I loved it.

During the few hours I was there watching the different races and walking around the extensive race track, I managed to take over a thousand images (a small number compared to others).

When shooting fast-paced action sports, I use the multiple frames per second option on my camera, shooting at 6 frames per second. In this way you capture 6 images as each riders shoots past, and hopefully one or more of the images give you the result you are looking for. If only it was that simple.

I have added a Gallery to the website, with a selection of the images from the day and I'm happy to offer the riders from that event a special price of they wish to buy any of the images.

I hope you enjoy looking through them as much as I did shooting them.
Happy and safe riding.

A selection of images can now be seen for this wonderful, secluded villa overlooking Crescent Beach (Industry Bay) on the charming Caribbean island of Bequia, part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

A 3 bedroom villa, with its own private infinity pool, with stunning views across the landscape of this beautiful island. From the elevated viewpoint, you can see right across the reff system that spans Spring, Industry and Park bays.

A real hidden gem.

For more details on the villa, please visit : Crescent Beach Villa

To view our full gallery of this amzing villa, please click here.

A selection of images from the 2015 Bequia Easter Regatta
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Bequia, or Bequia Island as its sometimes called, is, in my humble opinion the perfect Caribbean island.



I am starting a new project over the summer, to promote this beautiful island using the images, video's and time lapse sequences I have taken over the past year or so, to show the world at large, that its one of those Must See destinations, that it has to be added to your Bucket List and enjoyed, along with everyone who already knows its secret.

I will be using many outlets for my work as I move forward with this goal in mind, and the first is using YouTube. I have started with some of the time lapse sequences, using music by Amanda Gooding.

Amanda Gooding comes from and lives on Bequia and shares my passion for this perfect Caribbean island. Like me she'd like nothing more that for you to come and visit, stay a while, relax, sip a rum punch and listen to her playing in the local bars and soak yourself up in its glorious atmosphere.

There will be many video's going up over the coming months, so please keep coming back to check out the latest and I hope to see you on Bequia at some point. If you're into photography yourself, or would like to learn, then check out my Tuition services here, which are both great fun as well as being very rewarding.

See you soon!
Graham

Sussex Landscapes
The Seven Sisters



I am currently traveling around the South Coast, currently around East Sussex, and I couldn't come to this part of the world without popping down to see the classic view of the Seven Sisters.

It was glorious day and after spending the day with friends in Brighton, walking the promenade, walking the dog (Gus, who we renamed Tas, for the Tasmanian Devil) and walking miles, I was ready to get my camera out!

I parked at Seaford Head and walked down and around the coastline to view the cliffs from varying angles and with the wild flowers out, as well as the sun, it was a glorious day.

The seven sisters are named :

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  Haven Brow
  Short Brow
  Rough Brow
  Brass Point
  Flat Hill
  Bailey's Hill and
  Went Hill
  

Beyond the last hilltop, after Birling Gap in the dip, is the Belle Toute Lighthouse and then Beachy Head.

Returned to the UK ... Heavenly Dorset



I have now retuned to the UK for the next few months, returning from the small island of Bequia, in St Vincent and the Grenadines, in the Eastern Caribbean. A stunningly beautiful island and one I hope you will all visit at some point and join me for a 1:1 day there too. For the next few years, I will not be spending 6 months of the year in the UK and the 'other' 6 months in the Caribbean.

My return to the UK seems to have coincided with the arrival of summer, at last it seems.

My return brought me back initially to Dorset once again, but only fleetingly, so I headed to the top of Eggardon Hill to watch the summer sunset out across the Marshwood Vale, light up the fields as the sun set and then colour the sky with its golden orange glow.

Its a great viewpoint with the Marshwood Vale stretched out in front of you and Lewesdon Hill and Lamberts Castle rolling on the horizon. As the sun set and sank below the hills, the low clouds gleamed in the light and the sky took on the orange glow as the sun moved on round.

I will be based along the South Coast of the UK for the coming months and will be offering a range of courses and 1:1 tuition days for anyone interested in learning more, doing more and seeing more!. Details of these days can be found on the top menu.

The blow hole, Ravine Beach, Bequia



One of the places I have revisited a few times here on Bequia is the blow hole, near Ravine beach. It is often blowing 'softly' with a small amount of spray coming up out of the hole, but today was much more impressive.

As I scrambled down the rocky hillside towards the blow hole, I could see the spray jetting 30-40ft up into the air accompanied by an almighty 'rooooaaaaaaarr' as the water was forced through the outlet, no more than 18 inches square, and upwards into the oncoming breeze.

The sea was surging well today and this certainly helped the force behind the water as it crashed over the rocks on this part of the rocky shoreline. Waves were crashing in, over and up and then the blow hole was spurting water high into the air at the same time time. A great spectacle of the force of nature.

I have tried to show the progress of the water coming out of the blow hole, by showing a sequence of 5 shots as it fires upwards and then gets caught by the wind and is dispersed up and over the hillside.

Anse La Coite bay; Bequia



One of the bays on Bequia that wasn't so easy to get to ... until that is, the Government have started to sell off the land surrounding the rocky bay and have put in a rough dirt road for the lorries and trucks to use, so that they can start building roads on the development,.

Its a rough and rocky bay, exposed to the winds being on the windward side of the island and the day I was there, it was blowing in excess of 30 knots. The bay has a rocky ledge or reef further out, so that the waves are breaking well out into the bay and rolling in spectacularly. The turquoise waters, rolling waves and rocky ledges make this one of the more interesting bays to visit and spend some time clambering over.

With the wind howling, the waves breaking and the spray getting everywhere, it was a day to be cleaning the lenses and filters after each shot, but I did managed to get a long exposure off looking out towards the southern edge of the bay. Using the Lee Big Stopper, this provided an exposure of 20 seconds to turn the rolling waves to mist across the rocks.

Due to the high winds on this side of the island, its interesting to see the Cedar trees, native here to Bequia, bent over and growing almost sideways across the hillside.

Saying farewell to some good friends over dinner



Only temporarily though, as they head back to Canada for a few weeks during the quiet off season here on Bequia. To see them off we headed down to the regular Friday evening haunt of Cheryl's Fig Tree restaurant, where they have their Fish Fry Day.

As we sat and chatted over a few drinks and some wonderful grilled Mahi Mahi, we were entertained by a glorious sunset unfolding in front of our eyes.

It was short lived and only took over the part of the sky near the horizon, as the sun set behind the Old Fort in Hamilton, with the light reflecting off the clouds out across the waters of Admiralty Bay. It certainly added some lovely colours across the seascape for a while.

Caribbean Storms pass by St Vincent



One of the great things about being a Professional Photographer spending time out here in the Caribbean, is that you get to see things that you would not get to see too often back in the UK.

Here, storms can be short, sharp, heavy downpours as they pass by, helping us here by not only watering the plants etc. but as we depend on rainwater for our supplies, by filling up the water tanks.

These storms are sometimes large storm systems, especially now as we enter the hurricane season, or more normally during the year, they are small independent storms that come and go quite quickly. It was one of these smaller storms that I watched pass by the other day.

Sitting on top of Spring, in brilliant sunshine, looking out across the Bequia Channel towards St Vincent, clouds started rolling in across the hills and mountains of St Vincent. After a while a storm came rolling across the channel, missing both islands, but giving a great display of weather. A couple of yachtsmen got quite a dowsing as they sailed over to St Vincent .... all part of the fun of sailing.

Sunset across the island;
from Ravenala House, Bequia



I was recently invited to dinner with some friends who have been renovating a house here on the island, which used to belong to another friend of mine here, so I was interested to see what they had done. The result was stunning.

Ravenala House sits up high on the hillside at the end of Lower Bay, with breathtaking views out across the entire bay encompassing Lower Bay, Princess Margaret and Port Elizabeth, with views beyond out towards Spring and the hillsides of Mount Pleasant and into Friendship. The position also provides a great view out across the Bequia Channel to St Vincent.

So, with such a great view to keep up all entertained, it was a real bonus to get a beautiful, subtle sunset across the bay, with light dusky pinks and blues as the sun set behind the hillside to our left, lighting up the island to our right. A wonderful sunset and a gr4eat start to what was a great fun evening. A big thank you to Tim and Anne for such an enjoyable evening.

Sailing off into the sunset
Life on Bequia



A 'soft' sunset tonight, as the sun went down behind some low lying clouds, giving a soft golden glow to the end of the day. A couple of yachts caught my eye, sitting in the bay as I watched from the shore, on Princess Margaret beach.