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Stowe Gardens, Bucks

Recent Commentors

A big thanks to everyone who has left comments on my photos, including:

• Miles Wolstenholme
• Fiona Parkes
• David Eagle
• Brian Smithson
• Adrian Oakes
• Miles
• Jacob S. Jensen
• Quinn
• Edith
• Amy Frost
• Gillian White
• Jeremy Brookes
• Jay Fields
• Gemma Jones
• Frank Millar

Hi, I am Brian Smithson, living and working in the UK — Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, to be precise. Milton Keynes has a bad rap in terms of roundabouts and concrete cows — but I hope that you will find, through some of my photographs, it has some wonderful green spaces along with the modern architecture.

During the day, I am a Business Director of a web and print publishing company, also doing the electronic and print output side of the business. My business partner, Miles Wolstenholme, is also a photographer, living in the county of Devon, on the edges of Dartmoor. We both like to escape the trials of work and business by going on photographic trips - he around the West Country and I trek (or, more likely, drive) around the country and, as much as possible, into France.

I have quite a roving eye when it comes to subject matter — hence my sub-title on this blog of "Photographic Meanderings". I hope you find that my work is to your liking. I am intending to enjoy taking the photographs, no matter what  :-)

Thanks for stopping by.

Brian

Photo Gear

I have nearly always used Canon equipment, although most of the compact cameras I have ever owned have been Nikon. My current equipment consists of:

Canon 40D and Digital Rebel
Tamron 10-24mm USM Lens
Canon 28-135mm IS USM Lens
Canon 90-300mm Zoom Lens
Hoya UV and Polarising Filters
Hahnel Shutter Release
Cokin Z ND Grad Filters
Slik Tripod and Head

I always shoot in RAW and post-process my photographs with Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4, with some experimentation in PT Lens and Photomatix (for HDR).

Links

There are a number of photographers and blogs I admire and follow, so I thought it useful to list them here:

• David DuChemin — Pixelated Image
• David J. Nightingale — Chromasia
• Scott Kelby — Photoshop Insider
• James Galpin — Flickr stream