About BasingstokePhotos

> BasingstokePhotos features photography taken exclusively in the boundaries of Basingstoke and Deane by Mike de Sousa, whose home is in Oakley, a village with Deane to the west and Basingstoke to the east. Mike was born in Basingstoke in 1961, and has travelled extensively in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, United States, Mexico, Singapore, & Indonesia.

> Mike uses full format digital Nikon cameras and has taken photos for over thirty years. His love of art and design has continued from his early school days, and his latest digital work of remote fictional landscapes that present exquisite forms in familiar yet distant worlds can be found on his far larger companion site EyeInvent which presents photos from around the world, as well as Mike's artwork.

> Mike's personal site can be found at www.mikedesousa.com which presents an archive of some of his other creative work.

Basingstoke and Deane

> Basingstoke and Deane is named after the largest town and smallest village in an area of two hundred and forty five square miles in North Hampshire. This website shows Basingstoke and Deane to be an area with outstanding natural beauty, urban interest, and great visual variety.

> With a population of over one hundred and fifty thousand, the area is mainly rural with villages and hamlets in countryside that begins a few miles to the east of the town, and stretches west to the rolling hills and woodlands of Watership Down. All photography at BasingstokePhotos.com have been taken within the boundaries of Basingstoke and Deane.

> Basingstoke and Deane is located in the South of England: