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The grim scene at Portsmouth at the start of the day.
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Trip to Yorkshire, April 4th 2009.
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Hi, welcome to my collection of pictures from around the UK and the rest of the world. I am currently uploading my archive of images from the last three years with contemporary and older archive pictures added here and there. Hopefully by the end of 2009 all my shots from 2006-2009 will be online and then I can start working on uploading my 2002-2005 digital images which are mostly travel images from the USA, Asia and Australia. In addition I have an archive of around 10,000 film images which I am slowly scanning and uploading-it is a very slow process however.

I am currently using a Canon 30D and a Canon 40D and my three lenses are a Sigma 10-20, Canon 24-105L IS and a Canon 100-400L IS. From 2003-2006 I used a Canon 10D and Canon 300D, prior to that I was using a Canon D30 from 2002. My first digital camera was a little Fuji Finepix which I purchased in 2002. Before that I used a Canon EOS300 film camera.

I hope you enjoy my pictures!


Matthew Taylor, Portsmouth, 4th August 2009.
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11th Sep 2009Leeds, April 2009. (28 images)
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24th Aug 2009London Docklands visit, April 1st 2006. (16 images)
A wander around Docklands inbetween some railway images in East London and South West London.
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30th Apr 2009April and May 2003. (7 images)
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