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# Free Library Class Teaches Travel Photography Tips with Blue Fier
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/090806-story-20060908-2/
- Published: 2006-09-08T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:23:05.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Ocean Park, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Average photographers can take better photos on their next vacation with help from a profesional. Photographer and Santa Monica College instructor Blue Fier will teach a free class at the Fairview Branch of the Santa Monica Public Library. Students can learn how to improve composition techniques, how to make pictures tell a story, and how to shoot under difficult lighting conditions.

Fier, a professional photographer for more than 25 years, shares the secrets of traveling on the road and working as a pro.He has shot for Travel & Leisure magazine,several French airlines, cruise lines and numerous clients who have taken him to many exotic locales.

The class will be offered on Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Fairview Branch of the Santa Monica Public Library located at 2101 Ocean Park Blvd. For more information, call branch librarian Catherine Ronan at (310) 450-0443 or visit www.smpl.org.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 8, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090806.pdf?ref=smdp.com)