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Autumn Wedding

johnny f — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:59:41 +0000

Just a quicky, a bright and shiny October wedding.

Experience grinds the Lens though which we perceive reality

johnny f — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:09:32 +0000

That sounds great doesn’t it ?

But also so very true. Sit three photographers in front of the same subject and you’ll get three different images. You see it a lot in artists group portrait sessions. Half a dozen artists sitting around one naked model,one will produce a perfect rendering of the person in front of them and another will come up with a pacaso style image with three noses and a dog thrown in for good measure.I suppose it’s that old adage that if were all the same the world would be a boring place, but we could never be all the same could we ?

Experience grinds the Lens though which we perceive reality

I’m actually quoting Dave Stewart of eurythmics fame, who I believe in turn was quoting someone else. Dave is an incredibly creative person, his “lens” it appears to me, is not ground purely by what’s happened to him by chance, rather he goes out of his way to find people and experiences that colour his world and in turn enhance his creativity. Great things happen when your open to new people and experiences. The more inspiration we take onboard the greater the pool we have to draw from when needed.
If your wondering what your seeing in the image above, it’s an inverted shot of the underneath of an elevated section of the Paris metro.

Experience grinds the lens ?

I’d say so.

more images from this series can be found at John Fisher – Photography is the new Rock and Roll.

Lakes I see no lakes …

johnny f — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:07:08 +0000

Val and I took a few day out last week for a well earned break in the Lakes, as with our Paris break earlier in the year I decided the old D70 and 50mm prime lens was the way forward. Being light enough for those long walks, that was of cause until I actually came to taking pictures and the vastness of the landscape just couldn’t be captured as I wanted.
So I went in search of something to shoot with a 50m prime lens.
these are some of the results,hope you like them. For more of the same come and checkout www.johnfisheruk.com

Under a Birmingham skyline …

johnny f — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:24:52 +0000

Well it’s been a while, I’ve been so busy other the last few weeks I haven’t had chance to add anything here.So in oder to put that right here’s a sample of images that were part of an assignment for singer/songwriter Arron Luther.I’ve worked with Arron before and it’s always a pleasure, he always has a good idea of what he’s after which makes the creative process for me far easier. The shoot took place on the roof of Madhouse Studios in Birmingham just as the sun was going down.

Hope you like them.

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Shot for a calender, well give me a year.

johnny f — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:02:13 +0000

Dear friends, as you may already know that a couple of months ago I was approached to do a calender in aid of Haven breast cancer support. The original plan was to get it shot and printed in time for next year, however due to time constraints and venue availability we have had to do a slight rethink and now we are shooting with 2013 in mind. It has to be said this is actually a more favorable time scale as we can now shot as the months pass giving us seasonal options. The images here are from the most resent shoot, my approach here was to shoot a normal portraiture shoot and setting up images as I went along that would work for the calender.

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Bring on the rock and roll …

johnny f — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:02:29 +0000

I have spent the last few months looking for cool locations in and around Birmingham with the purpose of using them as backdrops for portraiture shoots.Last weekend Val and I gave our first location a try out. The above images are the result.

More Images from this shoot can be found at

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or in this short slide show… oh yes, be sure to hit the full screen button when watching this, enjoy.

La Dress D’Amour

johnny f — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:53:22 +0000

Three weeks after your wedding, the flowers are dead, the cake is eaten, the Dress is in the loft or lining up for Ebay.

This can’t be right !

All that time choosing just the right dress for the occasion, not to mention the cost. All for one day.

Surely that dress deserves one last fling ?

Even if the dress has been in storage for the last couple of years but still fits, this is for you.

La Dress D’Amour – the studio shoot your dress has been waiting for.
Studio Shoot £90
4 web – sized images free as standard
prints, framed prints, albums, DVD slideshow and more as optional extras.

For more information on our wedding service please take a look at johnfisheruk.com

Bohemians, vagabonds, romantics and artisans . . . Part three, add misfits and rebels to that list . . .

johnny f — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:53:34 +0000

“Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits. The rebels.

The troublemakers. The round

pegs in the square holes – the

ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules and

they have no respect for

the status quo. You can praise

them, disagree with them,

quote them, disbelieve them,

glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing that you

can’t do is ignore them.

Because they change things.”

- Jack Kerouac

quoted in an Apple Computer Ad, 1997

Last year I attended a seminar given by a marketing expert who was one half of a photographic training partnership. The other half being the photographer. I bring this up because one of her insights pertaining to her partner, was that creative people are very prone to mood swings, one minute your down in the dumps with no way out and everybody hates you and your work, there’s no justice in the world and SOMEONE ATE THE LAST JAFFA CAKE !!

Or is that just me ?

The next your firing on all six and you have more ideas than you can shake a stick at. At once I recogised myself in that statement. Though a relatively confident person, one you might not think wouldn’t be fazed by much ( Which is true ) self doubt certainly finds it’s way between the cracks here and there, though thankfully only in my more quiet moments. This statement though in some part explains the reason why creative people go off the rails, artists become recluse, rock stars die in drug induced comas, sure easy access to the drugs takes a part, but the ones that end up ruined because if it are in my option those prone to the ups and downs.

Last week Val and I visited the little black gallery on London, the home of the photographic work of the late Bob Carlos Clarke. Although not much of Clarkes work is on show at the moment ; the gallery is currently home to a visiting exhibition by Mike Figgis, there are still a number of prints available to view and copys of his fabulously named book, “Shooting Sex: The Definitive Guide to Undressing Beautiful Strangers”, to keep your interest.

Clarke was himself a tortured soul, a great talent, inner demons, under appreciated at the time and tragically came to a premature end. Is that balancing act the between confidence and self doubt the spark that gives great artists the edge do you think ? Is it that pull and push, or does that just get in the way. Would there art be greater without the torment ?

I guest we can only speculate.

What does all this have to do with the original quote ?

Well just that it’s the ones who don’t fit that make the biggest waves, the ones that weren’t popular at school or who didn’t fit the regular conception of cool. Talent walks a thin line, on one side lies success on the other failure. The trick is to feed the creative fire and keep moving forward, to have an idea and to see it though. Belief in yourself is often the hardness part, then maintaining that belief even harder.

So back to my favourite saying dear reader…” take the world by the throat”, your future is in your hands alone.

for more info on The Little Black Gallery click here

for more info on Bob Carlos Clarke click here

Bohemians part One

Bohemians part Two

Jurassic Coast

johnny f — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:25:58 +0000

Back in the day, when I was but a mere youth I was rather heavily into the artwork of Roger Dean. Back then I found his images fascinating, the wealth and breadth of his visions, creating worlds that seamingly had on place in our own. As I get older and have become more traveled I find myself coming across places that have a distinctly ”Roger Dean” look to them.

The images above were taken recently on what is known as the Jurassic coast, just east of Weymouth. I’m not sure weather I see images like this because I look for the Roger Dean in everything or because they just happen to be there. Its a chicken and egg situation.

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

If the butterfly flaps its wings in Brasil does a orphan boy steal a loaf of bread in West Bromwich?

Well who’s to say, for more images from this series check out John Fisher – Photography is the new Rock and Roll.

Himley Hall 2011

johnny f — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:48:21 +0000

12.00 noon Saturday 11th June, the rain they had promised has held off leaving my car boot full of redundant umbrellas and as I pull into Himley Hall car park there are far more people here than I had imagined dog walkers and pensions alike out for there saturday exercise . I’m here today to shot 20plus people, a gathering of friends from all over anticipating food and drink but having to put up with me first. 20plus turns out to be 28 and a half which was a little more than I’d bargained for, but not one to be daunted for long we mustered the troop and got to work. The above images are a sample from the shoot based around what resembled and old boathouse. Himley offered many potential locations for this shoot and give more time it would have been great to explore the rest of the grounds, however time and BBQ chicken wait for no man.

more images from this shoot can be found at

John Fisher Photography is the new Rock and Roll