About this blog

Who are you?
I'm Miles.

What do you do?
I design stuff for a living and take photos for fun.

What gear do you use?
I use a Canon 20d with various lenses. I prefer prime lenses over zooms because of their speed and relative quality vs price. I do have a small collection of film cameras but most of the images I post here are digital. I need to get a film scanner.

How do you process your images?
I use photoshop, sometimes I go nuts with it, sometimes I don't.

Will you tell me your secrets?
I don't have any but if you have any questions about the images I post then fire away, I'm happy to talk about it. I can't send you a PSD because I don't have any. I always flatten layers and save as a TIF from photoshop.

Are you an artist?
No. I don't have anything interesting or profound to say, they're just images. This site isn't a portfolio, I'm not trying to build a coherent body of work, it's just a blog. I love photography, I am driven to take photographs, but it's not a career path. It's something I want to do on my own terms.

Are you open to constructive comments?
Of course, I'm open to any kinds of comments, as long as people realise where the boundary between objective and subjective is. I also don't mind if people post things like, "This is nice" or "I don't like this". I don't think you need to justify your every comment with some indepth analysis of what it is particularly that you like or dislike about an image. Most of the time I look at people's images I can't say what it is that I like about them, I just like them. It's an emotional reaction, not some sort of science.

Will you vote for my blog at so-and-so blog directory?
No, please don't ask. I understand that people want to drive traffic to their sites but I can't stand this whole popularity contest thing.

What blog software do you use?
Unable to fathom the complexity of the blogging systems I looked at when I first started, I decided it would be easier to build my own. It's was built in an afternoon with the help of my friend Scott but it's well passed time for a makeover. If you're starting a photoblog yourself there are much better systems available now that cater specifically for photobloggers. Check out the advice on the photoblogs.org wiki.

Where do you find your Shot of the Day links?
I follow links from people who have commented here, then follow links from people who have commented on their sites, etc. I also check out the photoblog-posts tag at del.icio.us, check out who's bookmarking who at photoblogs.org, and generally randomly meander around the web. I try to pick sites I think deserve more exposure. There are plenty of very popular photoblogs out there posting great images but it seems like a bit of a waste to link to them since most people visiting here will probably be familiar with them already.



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