Welcome to Fotographic Images.

Hello and welcome to the home of Fotographic Images and wildlife photographer John Fairclough. A site which is truly dedicated to the subjects of the natural world.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to have a look around the site and when you have finished, please don't forget to bookmark us into your "favorites" box. If you have any time left and would like to drop us a line and let us know what you think of the site, its content and its user friendliness, it would great to hear from you.

 At least once a month, or more regular if necessary we will be updating the site. The idea behind this is to continually give you something new to read and look at when you re-visit us. This is also an ideal opportunity to keep you fully up to speed with what is happening with both the company and myself.

Around the same time as our site update we will be publishing our latest newsletter which is totally free of charge. The newsletter will be full of information, events and goodies, some of which can also save you money. If you haven't already done so, please feel free to register now for your copy. Copies of all our previous newsletters can be found here.

Should you have queries or concerns, or feel that I may just be able to help you in any way, you can always contact me by whichever method you so desire, and I will always do my utmost to provide you with a satisfactory solution.

The rotating image box on the left hand side will display a few select samples of some of my most recently uploaded images into the gallery section, whilst the "Latest News" box directs you immediately to the subject of your choice.

All our courses and workshops would make a memorable gift. Why not enquire.

What's New This Month?

Wild Wonders In Europe What is "Wild Wonders of Europe" I hear you saying, is it another photographic holiday company? Most certainly not!! Nothing could be much further from the reason behind this new organisation.

This has got to be described as one of the most exciting projects to be launched into the study of species and locations of the natural world.

Grey Seal Workshop We are organising another fantastic opportunity to photographer one of the most beautiful mammals living in and around our coastal waters.

Equipment For Sale  If you follow this link you will find a list of items such as Books, Equipment, Photoshop Training CDs and Software which is for sale, all are either unused or in excellent condition.

My Recent Work.

Since I last updated the site we have been involved in a couple of ongoing projects, one which is brilliant and extremely interesting and the second be a little boring to say the very least.

The first project I mentioned is for Carol and I to be invited to join the study of a relatively new and expanding badger group who are living in quiet but semi rural/residential area. Todate we have mainly visited to observe the badgers, and at the same time to educate them to human smells, noises etc. This has worked very well so far. However on a very recent visit I did take my camera gear and set everything up ready, the purpose of this was not to get the shots, but to try and introduce them to the noises of a camera shutter system and also the flash gun. This I did both with one and two badgers present and the whole group. The only notice given by the badgers was on the very first flash, one badger looked up and then just carried on what he was doing.

My next step is to organise some coloured lighting to enable me to focus correctly in the dark and at all time keeping my fingers crossed!!

The second project I mention has been to get stuck into my office work, in fact to be more accurate, my image processing. So far I have been extremly pleased with my progress, but more importantly, so has my agency.

It is my intention and dream to get everything up to date as soon as physically posiible and to be in a position that when I return home from a shoot, I can immediately process and use my keepers without delay. When I will achieve this goal I don't know, however I am certain it will be sooner rather than later.