Paul Chapman Pictures Gets Muddy!

With the majority of motorsport championships beginning their final preparations before the serious business of racing begins, Paul Chapman Pictures has found one of the few categories that have already begun their season.

Last weekend the Cornwall & Devon Land Rover club held their first meeting of the season. The first meeting was an RTV (Road Taxed Vehicle) event - This comprises of road legal (and relatively unmodified) Land Rover 90's, Discovery's, Range Rovers and the odd Lightweight.

The aim of the off roading competition is to drive around a tricky off road stage, whilst driving through a set number of challanging gates. Unlike most motorsports, speed is not essential. If any of the gates are touched, the stage is over for the competitor, like wise if the competitors vehicle stops/stalls or gets stuck on the stage, the competitor can no longer continue or finish the stage. Each gate has a number, every time a competitor touches a gate, or cannot otherwise complete the stage the last gate that the competitor pasted through is scored. At the end of 8 stgaes, the competitor with the lowest number is deemed the winner.

Vehicle control, and driver skill is easy to learn - but hard to master, and can be shown by the wide range of ages of the competitors (which are also both male and female). Some of the members have been driving Land Rovers off-road for decades, others have only been off-road a couple of times. But everyone shows the same amount of friendly competition, which enables grass root (or in this case muddy!!) motorsport to flourish despite the grim economic climate.

The future to come in 2009

Paul Chapman Pictures would like to wish all of its customers and fans a peaceful and prosperous 2009. The final months of 2008 have shocked both local and global economies with large financial institutions failing to protect its own customers. As a result it has been predicted that Internet crime and fraud is likely to increase during the next 12 months. (Source BBC News website). To reassure all of our customers Paul Chapman Pictures would like to once again take this opportunity to say that although our website is still small and young, it is a very serious business, which is taking all the necessary steps to make our customers feel safe and secure when visiting our website.

By joining the SafeBuy scheme the Paul Chapman Pictures website has had to conform to SafeBuy's code of conduct. The SafeBuy organisation will also undertake anonymous orders from our website. This is to ensure that our website delivers what we promise to our customers. Secondly to combat online credit card fraud our website uses secure third party PayPal shopping cart technology to handle all financial transactions carried out on our website.

In the up and coming year the website will continue to evolve and feature more photographs, our YouTube channel will also continue to grow, with both more videos and even more video views.

Until next time...
...Paul Chapman Pictures.

Paul Chapman Pictures Puts the Consumer First

As of today the Paul Chapman Pictures website has been accredited by the SafeBuy company. The Purpose of the SafeBuy Assurance scheme is to allow online retailers to differentiate themselves from both less reputable and secure competitors. The SafeBuy scheme is supported by The Office of Fair Trade, the institute of Directors as well as the Institute of Direct Marketing. In order to comply to the SafeBuy scheme the Paul Chapman Pictures website has had to adhere to several requirements including:

• Adhere to the terms of the Sale of Goods Act, the EU Distance Selling Regulations and the EU Directive of Privacy and Electronic Communications.
• Confirm to the Data Protection Act 1998.
• Provide security for the processing of credit card transactions.
• Include physical location and contact details for themselves on their website.
• Display the total price consumers must pay for goods including delivery costs and provide a clear explanation of the delivery procedures.
• Advise the consumer if 'cookies' are required for the processing of data.
• Not use 'spam' for marketing purposes.
  

The SafeBuy company vets all sites during the accreditation and continuously carries out 'mystery shopper' exercises and standards checking to ensure that retailers are adhering to the scheme.

In the event of a consumer purchasing problem, SafeBuy has a mediation service, at no cost to the consumer or retailer, which can be referenced via the contact tab. The consumer has further right of redress through the SafeBuy arbitration scheme run by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators at www.idrs.ltd.uk/safebuy

(Courtesy of SafeBuy Ltd.)

It is Paul Chapman Pictures wish to ensure that every single customer is treated fairly and with the utmost of respect. By displaying the SafeBuy logo on our website all visitors can feel safe in the knowledge that our website is a professionally run and maintained website.

We feel that by gaining the SafeBuy accreditation Paul Chapman Pictures can be further taken seriously as a website which puts the interests of the consumer first. Although the website is still relatively young, we feel that this accreditation shows our commitment to creating a safe, professional and pleasant website to visit, enjoy and shop at.

Another benefit of gaining the SafeBuy accreditation has been the receipt of legally correct and proper privacy policy and terms and conditions documents. These are now fully in force and available throughout the whole of the Paul Chapman Picures website.

Lastly Paul Chapman Pictures would like to wish all of its customers a pleasant and peaceful new year, and a joyous 2009. Here at Paul Chapman Pictures we are franticly working towards confirming the 2009 motorsport racing season.

Ready, Steady, Rally!

After spending the whole weekend up in Wales photographing the final round of the World Rally Championship its now time to start publishing the best of the shots. In true Paul Chapman Pictures tradition the first item to be published is the YouTube video. This time the video features photgraphs from the Swansea SA1 service park, as well as night time photographs from inside the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and to top it all off the final part of the video features live action from Sebastian Loeb, Steve Perez and the unmissbale Valentino Rossi!

Stay tuned as the photographs will be added to the website, ready to be ordered within the next week, and just in time to still make the last day of trading in which Paul Chapman Pictures can guarntee Christmas delivery on the 19th December.

Paul...

Christmas Shopping

Once again we begin to reach the time of year when the weather turns cold, the warm glow of the fire fills our hearts and dear old Santa decides whether you've been naughty or nice.

This Christmas give that someone special something that they can use all year round - a brand new Paul Chapman Pictures 2009 A4 calendar!! Each month a specially selected photograph has been chosen to reflect the mood of each month. The picture choices were hard as the ever growing archive of photographs that Paul Chapman Pictures has taken over the last 12 months has steadily increased.

One final note is that to guarantee 1st Class Christmas delivery of any photographs, A4 prints or even the brand new 2009 Calendar all orders must be placed and confirmed by the 19th of December.

PCPimages YouTube Channel Turns 1 year old too!

Hello to everyone once again. This short blog entry is just to raise awareness to the fact that as of the 28th October the Paul Chapman Pictures YouTube video channel has been in existence for a full year. In many ways this short blog is also a huge thank you to all of the motorsport fans around the world who have been watching all ten short videos over the last year. Thanks to all of your help a total of 9,447 videos have been watched on our channel. Building on this fantastic first year of YubeTube videos Paul Chapman Pictures will continue to expand on our video catalogue, as well as increasing the multimedia qualtiy throughout the new videos.

The initial idea was to use the popularity of YouTube to help raise the impact of the Paul Chapman Pictures - Motorsport Photography website through the use of free and entertaining videos. We feel that this is being achieved with many other postive spin-offs for the website.

Quickly to summarise we wish for all the YouTube watching to continue, and rest ashored more videos will be added over the next year - starting with the WRC at the Millennium Stage in Cardiff at the beginning of December, with more info coming soon...

Paul Chapman Photography Returns to Wales

For the third consecutive year Paul Chapman Photography will be covering the final round of the World Rally Championship at the Wales Rally GB from the 4th-7th of December. As usual the final stage on Saturday will be held within the Millennium Stadium in the heart of Cardiff. Although PCP will not be able to cover all of the rally stages it is possible to confirm our attendance to the Millennium Stadium stage and the service park throughout the weekend, with any luck additional stages will be added to the weekends schedule.

As is becoming customary of Paul Chapman Pictures a full multimedia YouTube video will be created, featuring the main highlights of the rally weekend. To date the pcpimages YouTube channel has seen nearly 9,000 video views. No other motorsports photography website offers such a free service to its customers and fanbase. Rest assured PCPimages.co.uk is working hard to confirm future 2008 and 2009 motorsport events - with the announcements being made here first.

In the next blog entry the long awaited Photosynth application will be discussed, as well as other 3D photographic applications. However this blog has had to be delayed as we are currently still awaiting further 3D converted photographs to correctly show and discuss the latest developments in photographic production.