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Useful websites

I've received quite a few emails about how useful the websites I have mentioned on my blog have been to people. So without repeating the all of the ones already mentioned here's a few more you may like to peruse.

If you want to upload and share your pictures try:
There are lots of other sites to share your pictures but these are my favourites.

Are you interested in portraiture? Then a visit to the National Portrait Gallery is a must
www.npg.org.uk
This site contains some interesting intervews with leading portrait photographers and of course you could enter the 2005 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize.

And if you've got some deep technical questions you could do a lot worse than visiting http://photonotes.org - This outstanding site has tons of well organised information to answer the most obscure photographic questions.

I've got hundreds of other valuable photography sites, more than you could shake a stick at, but for now I'll leave it at that.

If you find any of this information useful then please email me to say hi. I get no payment for my research other than to know that you value my efforts here.

Thank you for reading.
Paul Indigo

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