Marilyn Taylor had a solid, successful career in the computer industry since graduating as a civil engineer at Oxford University.  She is an experienced and flexible IT professional with a strong work ethic which promotes long standing business relationships and referrals.  She has taken these technical and people skills into a new career.

Following her Events Photographer of the Year win at the SWPP awards dinner in January 2011, Marilyn was working as a freelance professional photographer focusing on family photography, sports and baby portraits, with some weddings, but has done some commercial fashion shoots and orchestral publicity photography and freelances for the local newspaper.

In October 2011 she was awarded the Royal Photographic Society gold medal and PDI Raymond Wallace Thompson Trophy for the Digital Imaging Group with her photo of Silverback Gorillas Fighting, taken at Port Lympne in March 2011, and the next year won a judges' ribbon in the same competition for her 'Attack on La Haye Sainte'.

Marilyn joined the Sealed Knot Photo Team (a voluntary post) almost by chance having been to the Old Basing re-enactment in 2008, and re-enactment photography formed a big part of her amateur photographic portfolio for many years.  In November 2022 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Photographic Federation for a panel of English Civil War Re-enactments images.

After an amazing trip to the Namib desert in March 2015, she put a panel of 20 images together for the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, and was awarded a Fellowship for her panel of three beautiful Ovambo girls in the desert.   In 2018 she went to Papua New Guinea for the cultural festivals, and after two more trips, she put together a panel of 21 images for a successful Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.

People photography in general has been a strong part of her photographic services, and in 2016 she started taking photographs of the Steampunk community.  For the last 6 years Marilyn has been working on a project featuring Steampunks and HG Wells' "War of the Worlds", and published an illustrated book in September 2020.

Marilyn was the official photographer for the Bramley Golf Club Centenary celebrations and festival in 2013 and continues to balance playing golf with photography.

Marilyn is currently studying at the UCA in Farnham, for a Master of Fine Art Photography working on projects looking at the ‘Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Fine Art Photography’, and ‘Visual Alchemy’, an experimental project to see if it is possible to create a series of exciting fine art images related to eyes, and vision in general.

Marilyn has just become the London Camera Exchange Photographer of the Year 2024 with her Wildlife entry 'Long-tongued bat approaching banana leaf', featured on the main page.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may also view my stock imagery at www.taylormadeimagery.com