Split rock, Clachtoll, Sutherland © John MacPherson Imagination Is what we call the possibility of..... A split rock that slid centuries ago A passing......
Sea bird wreck, Scotland © John MacPherson A seabird 'wreck' is the term given to the mass deaths of the birds. This one happened......
Beautifully filmed/photographed, edited, structured, soundtracked. Hugely evocative and insightful. Visual poetry in my humble opinion. Well worth your time watching. LUCEO: Few & Far Between from......
Beginnings © John MacPherson Something for Father's Day. (and I feel somewhat guilty at moving the Musa Okwonga post below......
Having digested my previous posts about the ways that the photography business is going I thought you all might like to consider a new way of working. This has been prompted by witnessing the......
Quick to criticize. Quick to praise. Thank you Cllr McCuish, Leader of Argyll & Bute Council for doing the right thing. ...
I like art. I also love real food. Good food, slow food, locally produced food. Food is great stuff - proper nutrition helps produce good brains, especially in young people. And it tastes good......
Coincidental to my post yesterday about free stuff I was intrigued by this ad for an "amazing opportunity" to shoot for STA Travel. They describe it as an opportunity to "get a career-boosting......
To add further emphasis to ducks post below (mediastorm/steber) on 'free' and thinking smarter.................... I've spoken recently with a few younger photographers and a couple of folks from NGO's and charities and the conversations......
It's funny how in retrospect disparate events can coalesce to reveal an obvious truth. One which at......
Fulmar © John MacPherson As the quill pen recorded the story of our history, so bird flight writes the story of......
We went to the beach one day. My son and I. A small boy, just three years old and full of wonder. The fair had arrived! And was just setting up. Dodgems, whirlers, ferris wheels, candy......
I met them in a high coire. Two tired hikers. In Coire Mhic Fhearchair, to be precise. In the late evening. Summer. If you are in the mountains it is good to be precise. Otherwise......
I saw art being created last week. It was inexact in many ways, and a dispassionate observer might describe it as 'messy' (art is like that!). It involved some struggle. Some people cried during it. There......
In case FF is experiencing technical difficulties,and is not going to be delivered by its regular contributor I'm taking the liberty of offering the wonderful Mike Steiphenson/Burundi Black. If the real FF appears, then......
"Yo pider! Thats a fine web." I told the orb-web-spider as I clambered up onto the kitchen......
I like stories. And the web is an amazing place for storytelling. Stuff goes up, and stays there, floating about waiting to be discovered by someone and run with. Maybe to inspire something else, or something similar. But......
I've been threatened with ejection from my local supermarket several times. You may guess which one by the red 's'. They don't like cameras. Not inside. Nor outside. Especially ones with big long white conspicuous......
I like water. Water is amazing stuff. I stood on this beach, a gentle slope, and watched fresh......
Sign I spotted on the door of a women's hairdressing salon in rural Wales. I wondered......