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The Dunmow Carnival

The Dunmow Carnival chugs past our house every year…this year “chug” was the operative word as this tractor made it’s way up towards Dunmow High Street

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Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Walk Plaque

I was taking a stroll through Kensington Gardens in London when I saw this on the path. Apparently there are 90 of these plaques embedded in the ground leading you around a 7 mile walk through some of the main parks in London.

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Bust Sony Walkman WM-51
2012 - 366 Project

257/366 Maybe I misled you…

So, yesterday’s picture. My mate Dave mentioned that it looked like my old 25 year old Walkman looked pristine in yesterday’s photograph. Now, I must admit , I was trying to give it a clean look, but perhaps I went too far 😉 The player does still power up when

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Sony Walkman WM-51
2012 - 366 Project

256/366 25 Years Old, My First Sony Walkman

This is my Sony Walkman WM-51 that I bought in 1987. I can quite clearly remember buying it in the Electronics section of Lewis’ on the Headrow in Leeds (long gone now). It was the first Sony Walkman I ever owned, I’d had numerous cheap Aiwa and the like lookalikes

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Daddy Long Legs
2012 - 366 Project

254/366 Daddy Long Legs

aka Crane Fly. It is the season and our cats enjoy chasing them round. They hadn’t noticed this one yet so I took advantage. Unusually for me I used off camera flash for this shot.

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Another Doctors Pond Sunset
2012 - 366 Project

253/366 Another Doctors Pond Sunset

Look through this 366 project and you’ll come across a fair few Doctors Pond shots. In my defence, when you get a sunset like this, why wouldn’t you shoot it?

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The Flitch Way
2012 - 366 Project

252/366 The Flitch Way

Great Dunmow used to have a railway line running through it that started in Bishop’s Stortford and finished, 45 minutes later in Braintree (and vice versa). The passenger service ended in 1952 with goods traffic continuing to use the line until its close in 1969. Following the demise of the

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Backlit Elijah
2012 - 366 Project

251/366 Backlit Elijah

You know I’m struggling when I have to fall back on one of our cats…still, this fella had his hair cut this week and this is probably the only angle I could photograph him without revealing his completely bald back. Unfortunately, as he is a thug, he has to have

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Pin Sharp
2012 - 366 Project

250/366 Pin Sharp

Tonight was the Dunmow Photography Club held at Orange Street Photography and it was water splash and macro night. I learnt a lot and saw some very interesting and relatively easy ways to take some interesting photographs…all things that I have been kind of aware of, but never actually done.

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.