New Appointment June 2005 Philip Chisholm has just accepted the appointment to head up the UK newspaper imaging business NewsPrints. Chisholm over the last 10 years has been working with the software company Digital Asset Solutions from their University Of Teesside HQ and more recently from the Innovation Studio based in Covent Garden London. DAS have been providing communications software within the photographic industry which is used by Agfa Pro & Mini Labs and also the Kodak Halsys software, the DAS Photo Order software is used by 42 Professional Photographic Lab, the other principal users are NewsQuest, Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press, NEP, Dunfermline Press and Champion Newspapers Groups who enhance their websites with the DAS Photo Order Press software.

Philips brief is to set up the new NewsPrints Bureau to handle the many thousands of Press pictures delivered daily for storage on the NewsPrints servers situated in Docklands London. As the images are requested using the Photo Order Press Internet search software, they will pass through the Bureau where they are retouched, enhanced, corrected for density and colour before being profiled and transmitted to the printers.
Philip commented. "Over the last ten years since DAS wrote the first Digital Press office for Virgin Records in 1996 our software has become the United Kingdoms number one Internet Press Sales software for handling digital imaging, our next goal is to penetrate the European markets starting with the Scandinavian countries, we are presently talking to two international distributors to sell the Teesside created software into these markets".
"The concept behind the new Bureau is to get the very best out of our Newspaper client images whether these are for prints to provide their readers with memento of their success once captured by a local Newspaper or digital fulfillment for electronic distribution".
"This then is the most exciting times with rapid access the goal; to be part of the Newspaper business today is invigorating, it's like riding a horse at full gallop along a golden beach through the surf, the internet will play an increasing part in peoples lives as the search engines herald in the new dawn of providing the 'equalisation of world knowledge'. Photography will drive this communication renaissance".

When I asked Philip for an example of the future, he commented.
"DAS are to launch many new upgrades to Photo Order Press in 2005 one of the most simple will be used as a browser based ftp communicator for transmitting multiple file uploads using port 80, cumulatively this will do away for the need for dedicated ftp software on a computer, just a simple web address and the use of any computer and your transmitting to the world, that today software."

"When I make such comments for the press, I always like to share a little of what the future may bring to simulate minds and create opportunity!............... Its always dangerous to predict anything, but within a few years, once we have met someone that persons face will be digitised by your eye glasses, such a head set will include your mobile phone a camera and a miniature ear voice-mic, indeed all the world will have the opportunity to start wearing eye glasses as a utility fashion accessories and a computer".

"To expand on this, presently while cloths are fashion driven, technology and body architecture will become the jewellery of tomorrow. E.g. next time you meet anyone your eye-visor will instantly scan the person and using face recognition software display a name. Taking this one step further a voice command will search for information on the Web, the results will be displayed inside your visor, eye ball movement and voice will replace the phone keyboard for sending text messages and the need for a laptop computer will become history, watch out for their replacement in the form of some large exciting looking wristwatches linked to your eye visor".

"WiMax communication will replace WiFi and provide information from a universally accessible server centres ten times faster the present 3G mobile phones. To truly understand the impending change and how by using the Internet the effect of the equalisation of knowledge will have on society, it is equivalent to everyone having access to a super computer available on command, DAS and Newsprints will be providing the software for such solutions"

We certainly have interesting times ahead, Philip will be sitting at his new desk by June 1st, for further comment contact Philip on 07802 936 414

Saltburn December 2004
The Saltburn Photographic Club at their November annual portrait Competition yesterday, awarded Philip with the title of ‘Hon Life Member’. This is only the second such award, in the 80-year history of the club.
Philip has been judging the Portrait Competition throughout his photographiccareer, as the decades have rolled by. Philip has realised the importanceof such a group of camera enthusiast in a community. Commenting “
It is quite often a collection of photograph produced by such avid enthusiastas Saltburn Photographic Society, that creates the collection that art galleries and museum need to tell the storey of our history and culture.” Philip went on to say.” To be awarded such an Honour by your local piers is one of the hardest things in life to achieve, I am very moved to receive this accolade from a group of professional photographers who enjoy amateur status, for their efforts and quality are truly of a professional standard. Out of the many other awards I have received for my photographyn my career, this one means the most.

Other projects that Philip is working on is Internet Broadcast streaming, where locally produced concert may be broadcast live from a Village Hall to a group of fellow enthusiast who subscribe to the internet magazine. In so doing, a concert performed in Redcar will be broadcast live on the internet around the world with a pay as you view delivery system. Philip hopes this will allow many local music group acquire revenue to maintain their Brass Bands, Choirs and Orchestras.
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