John Fisher on August 24th, 2010

As with many things, the more that you do of it, the more blaze you get. The net result of this with photography is that you might go out on a shoot and forget something really basic, such as charged batteries, spare memory cards, your filters or even your lens cleaning kit. A few things [...]

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John Fisher on August 18th, 2010

Digital entries are invited for the 20th Guernsey Salon of  Photography. An entry form and a copy of the rules are available from the Guernsey Salon website http://www.guernseysalon.co.uk The closing date is 23rd October 2010. A great excuse for an Autumn holiday. Buzz this!

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John Fisher on June 29th, 2010

I have just completed my latest project on Architecture and have posted some of the images in the gallery for you to have a look at. The interesting thing about projects such as this is that as well as having to get to grips with the challenges of photographing buildings during the day and at [...]

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John Fisher on May 6th, 2010

I was very fortunate to get a ticket for the Royal Photographic Society Photo Journalists Group event last evening when Adobe presented their latest and greatest offering, Photoshop CS5. I had already read stories of how you could cut out a tree from a landscape with ease but nothing had prepared me (or indeed anyone else who was there [...]

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John Fisher on May 4th, 2010

Although there is a tab on this web site called “places” that aims to list interesting spots that I know about, I felt that the subject of where to go to take interesting photographs deserved more. So I have created www.goodphotolocations.com I hope that you will pay it a visit or two and find it [...]

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John Fisher on April 14th, 2010

We all know that the Internet and digital media in general have changed photography beyond recognition over the last few years. Although it is possible to argue that taking good images is much easier than it used to be and the art has been deskilled in some ways, there are many benefits from the new [...]

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John Fisher on April 13th, 2010

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John Fisher on April 1st, 2010

There are many things in life where it seems impossible to select the best solution to a problem first time round, no matter how much time and trouble you take over it. A comfortable bed, for example, a motorcycle helmet and for photographers, an easy way to carry your ever expanding amount of gear. The problem is that you [...]

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John Fisher on March 27th, 2010

I have heard it before but never experienced it for myself – until now. For my latest project I am taking pictures of buildings designed by the Regency architect, John Nash. I am taking some during the day and some in the evening. Those of Marble Arch, the Institute of Directors, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket [...]

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John Fisher on March 16th, 2010

I am so pleased that Spring had finally arrived and the snowdrops and crocuses didn’t take long to take advantage of the warmer weather. After the terrible Winter we have had, they seem even more special this year and I have put three new pictures in the flower section of the gallery on this site. [...]

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