We are live! The doors are now open at Birmingham's NEC for the 2010 Focus on Imaging Show.

This year promises to be one of the highlights of the photographic calendar. Focus is one of the most highly anticipated and popular consumer and trade photographic shows in Europe attracting in excess of 25,000 people every year.

On stand D10 you'll find all the Fujifilm action- it's one of the biggest stands of the exhibition, so you can't miss us.

Christmas 2009 was myself and my boyfriend’s very first Christmas. To celebrate this, and also avoid the very common dilemma of where to spend it to, we decided to head of to Livigno, Italy.

It has occured to me that a sign of a good photopgrapher is not the camera he/she has, but how they see the world and their ability to show the rest what they see. A good photopgrapher will see beauty in the most ordinary of things and places and this is something I need to learn to do...

alle warten auf den Frühling, hier ist er...

Thought You ought to know.

I've had the S1600 now since 1st March.

Initially I was impressed with the quality of pictures I have taken outdoors and inside using flash and in macro mode. (see my gallery http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/gallery/88902 

This is my 90 year old father,With my Granddaughter,who is herself expecting a baby in July.So will be 5 generations..

We decided to go to Holy Island today to visit my wife's Brother who runs the Lindisfarne Hotel, unfortunately this photo was taken on a sunnier day.

Its just over an hours drive up the A1 from Newcastle and we arrived around 12.00 - very cold outside so had a quick coffee in the Hotel before going on our walk. We strolled towards the harbour and there's plenty of photo opportunities along the way.

This is my first attempt at a proper blog - my last attempt only let me add one photo which I know is not really the idea - so here goes....

I decided to have a ride up to Rivington Barn at Horwich today, beautiful sunny day and I knew there would be a few bikes around. What I didn't realise was there was a Bike Meet on, The place was so busy and there were some amazing bikes there. Just take a look at some of my favourites!

• hi this my first blog, i have always been intrested in bike racing i used to live on the isle of man about 16 years ago now and of course i was very into taking photos of the bikes with my old film slr camera but never very good at it i have to say, i had some very good shots though but a little hit and miss, but lately i bought the finepix s5500 to try and get back into it again i changed to the new s2000hd which i think is not as good as the s5500 and does not look as good eather, but all the time i have had these cameras i did not know about this sight where i along with others can

Well after looking at a few of the blogs I decided to blog my most common photographic topic, and if any of you are looking for a different topic for photography try a local festival, you might not be welcomed with open arms at Glastonbury but have a look around, many of our festivals love the fact that someone will come along and take hundreds of photos, for free I hasten to add.  Here are some from the long wet summer of 2009...

Maryport Blues