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Jess looking curiously into a box
2025 - 365 Project

051-365v5 – Curiosity

In today’s Flickr 21Day Challenge we have “Curiosity”. So we dug out a box put some paper in it along with a phone playing some bird sounds. Along comes Jess and she is immediately cocking her head trying to work out what is inside the box. Needless to say, she

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Spiralling Symmetry
2025 - 365 Project

050-365v5 – Artistry

Today’s Flickr challenge word is “Artistry”. Bearing in mind that the definition of Artistry is noun creative skill or ability.“the artistry of the pianist” Short of photographing someone else’s work I’m not entirely sure how to fulfil this brief. This is often an issue with one word theme’s, the theme

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Exploration
2025 - 365 Project

049-365v5 Exploration

In today’s Flickr Challenge we had the subject of Exploration. I really fancied going upstream to find some ponds that are shown on our OS map just along our burn that runs through the garden coming from the surrounding hills (you can see the small waterfalls here). The cold though

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Three Triangles
2025 - 365 Project

048-365v5 – Three Triangles

I’m full of cold at the moment (at least it’s not covid again) so have not really felt up to much today – so here are three triangles, just as the title suggests!!

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Beginnings - A Snowflower
2025 - 365 Project

047-365v5 – Beginnings

Today’s Flickr challenge is  “Beginnings”. We have just had the first of our snowdrops (and we don’t have many) coming out. It’s a little galling as across the road from us there are literally thousands of them! A bit of a shame we haven’t had any snow overnight! Meanwhile I

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Waiting for the Farmer
2025 - 365 Project

046-365v5 – Waiting for the Farmer

This morning was cold and murky and as Jess and I were heading up to the Forestry track for our morning walk I saw this scene of the neighbouring farms sheep awaiting their breakfast. We, and the sheep, could hear the tractor that would be bringing their morning breakfast but

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Zenza Bronica ETRSi and the Zeiss Icon Nettar
2025 - 365 Project

045-365v5 – Camera

Today’s Flickr 21 Challenge is “camera”, so here are 2 of my older film cameras. The viewfinder you are looking through belongs to my Zenza Bronica ETR-Si and the camera being photographed is my Zeiss Icon Nettar folding camera. You can see more photographs of the Zenza Bronica ETR-Si here

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Coffee and Doughnuts
2025 - 365 Project

044-365v5 – Coffee and Doughnuts

All is not as it may seem in this shot. This, again, is for the Flickr 21st Birthday challenge whose theme is “Donuts”. We, in the UK firstly spell it correctly 😉 and secondly don’t basically live off them. We neither have any doughnuts in the house, nor do we

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Flickr’s 21 Day Birthday Photo Challenge - 21
2025 - 365 Project

043-365v5 – 21

I continue with my images in response to Flickr’s 21st birthday today with their set subject of “21”. All these images were taken in the house and around Newcastleton today, I had many more, but these were my favourites/fitted the panel best. The centre image is a sparkler that I

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Dots with a face and body
2025 - 365 Project

042-365v5 Dots

Flickr are 21 years old (yesterday actually) and they are doing 21 days of themed images. Today’s theme is “dots”. I’ve done lots of this type of image, especially during the Black and White Unite series of shots when I used steel ball bearings on patterned paper to create images.

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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.