There is deep-seated pleasure and gratification in taking a well thought-out, well balanced photograph.  It is a memory recorded for life.”
​- Eda Fisher

Featured Photos

How Do-You-Do, I'm Tallfella / 2013
This is a peaceful camping spot on the huge Joseni Dam in South Africa.  It was late one afternoon when I met my new friend, Tallfella. I was taking a quiet walk to the bathroom, just listening to the silence, when I felt I was being stared at.

​I looked towards a nearby camp road and saw this gigantic giraffe just checking me out. Well, I fell in love all over again and asked him to wait till I had fetched my camera. He did, so here he is.  It was a wonderful experience.

​The fact that he wasn’t afraid of me and showed trust that I was not about to hurt him made me feel accepted here in this place, his kingdom. 
Twin Towers / 2008
Want to learn some tips on camouflage? 

Well, if you do, just ask old Jerry here.  My daughter and I were taking the twins on their first trip to the Kruger National Park in South Africa. We were taking turns driving and taking photos. She was driving when I saw Jerry peacefully chewing away at his breakfast.  He just happened to be standing near this dead tree.  I just said   “Stop quickly”. She did and I was able to capture the exciting moment for years to come.  

It was my lucky day!

What makes Eda snap?

My father was a keen photographer and used to make slides from his pictures.  I was always involved.   He said photography taught one to be more observant. It certainly does.  

I was given my ‘pride and joy’ camera when I was about eight. It was a second-hand, old box camera that had belonged to Dad himself, when he was young. It took relatively fair pictures in black and white.  Good enough to get me hooked for life.

I realized photography is an art-form of its own, an aesthetic hobby I could accomplish.   I cannot draw or paint, but I can see potential photographs. These days I generally prefer to use manual settings as I want my own input into the pictures I am taking. Tom Geisler, in one of his photography courses I attended, made us promise on our honor “NOT TO USE GREEN A” for the duration of the course.  A very clever move…thanks Tom.

I love life in all its forms and I feel photography brings about a deeper   awareness of one’s surroundings, a closeness to and appreciation of all the facets of our beautiful planet.  A person begins to find potential pictures in unexpected places. One begins to pay attention to texture, shape, lighting, shadows and sunshine and so much more. It was Tom Geisler that gently guided us to appreciate these things in our photography course. There is deep seated pleasure and gratification in taking a well thought-out, well balanced photograph.  It is a memory recorded for life.
Photography brings happiness to others as well.  People love to see places and things they have not visited or seen and I love to provide, to some small degree, that happiness.

It is also a very helpful teaching aid.  I have often used my pictures in the classroom to reinforce a concept or to show the children other places, customs and ways of life.

-Eda
I cannot draw or paint, but I can see potential photographs.”
​- Eda Fisher

Personal Favorites

Very early one Winters morning we were returning to the farm we ran near the Drakensberg in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.  Shortly after leaving Pietermaritzburg we ran into snowy weather.  We needed to hurry incase the roads became too dangerous to drive on.  This was a real adventure and I was ecstatic.  We had just bought a new camera too. I had charged the batteries the night before. Now this snow.  Real snow, in abundance.    We dared not stop as we were due to start work in a few hours so I just took photos out of the window and hoped for the best.  It was fun and exciting. This is one of the shots I took. It reminds me never to resist having an adventure.
I was on my first Cub Hike in the majestic Smoky Mountains. The joy of experiencing this closeness to Nature is difficult to put into words but could be described as exhilarating.  I noticed this beautiful rotting root and my fascination with unusual subjects for photos clicked in.  What I love about this photograph are the many shades of green, the delicate, contrasting patterns of light and shade and the textures of the leaves, rotting wood and soft green moss. Sometimes we humans are in such a hurry ‘to get there’ that we miss even seeing these quiet, small things.
It was a glorious day so we went on a family picnic to Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains.  I was admiring the old plank fencing of the area, unique and beautiful. My attention was drawn to ground level and I noticed smiling yellow faces looking up at me from the corner of the fence.  They were a picture waiting to be taken. So I obliged.
While I was setting it up some of the words from an old-fashioned children’s hymn went through my mind.  Hence the caption,
                                                                      "Nothing is too tiny for His loving care,
                                                                     Nothing is too humble in His love to share"