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My interest in photography started well over 20 years ago, at that time I was intrigued as to how high quality images in books and magazines etc were achieved compared to the ubiquitous low quality snaps most of us are familiar with. My first serious camera was an Olympus OM2n, a beautiful lightweight piece of engineering, which together with a standard 50mm lens, a 28mm wide angle and a 75-150mm zoom allowed me to start learning how to take pictures. I spent some time learning about composition, the importance of the quality of light, depth of field, shutter speeds and aperture effects etc etc and developing an 'eye' for a pleasing image. I then upgraded to an Olympus OM4 about six or seven years later with its multi spot metering being then, and still unique. My interest in photography continued but waned a bit until I traded it in for a Nikon F90X, a lovely camera which I still use - the Australia images were taken recently with this piece of equipment. Transparency film has always been my preference and I have stayed with Kodak Ektachrome in its various guises down the years and today I use the VS (vivid saturation) version which I prefer to Fuji Velvia. I consider the images on this site to be fine quality, not fine art photographs which by their nature are very different (and which I am also intrigued by) but well composed and colourful images of places and themes which I have enjoyed and hope through this medium you do too. It seems that the current vogue is for panoramic pictures and I have an empathy for this medium and I am currently experimenting in this area. Black and white images and infra red are also areas which I will be exploring. Photographing people is something I would like to develop further, not conventional portraits or reportage style but something a bit different. Abstract images are also of interest to me and some of the pictures on this site are bordering on this (see Brooklyn Bridge). If you have any constructive comments about the images you see here I would be delighted to hear from you. All the images are available as limited edition digital prints, for information on sizes, mounts and prices please go to the purchase page. Thank you for viewing this site, I hope you enjoy looking at the images. By the way there is another Graham Dean, a well known artist who has the website www.grahamdean.com it is well worth a visit as his paintings are fascinating.
Graham P Dean, March 2008
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