TRAVEL around the globe without leaving Pershore - that's the offer to local people from Worcestershire photographer Paul Beard.

Paul, who recently set up a new online gallery call openingshot.com, is to stage an exhibition at Pershore Library to mark the start of a new career direction.

He has quit the corporate world to spend more of his working life doing what he is passionate about - photographing the harmony of the natural and man-made world.

Openingshot is a stunning exhibition of images from around the world, including northern India, Cambodia, Vietnam and England's jurassic coast.

The exhibition, which runs from this Saturday until March 4, aims to bring the diversity of the world to its audience through accessible and appealing photography.

A detailed catalogue of each image, will accompany the exhibition with photos for sale.