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2012 - 366 Project

001/366 – The Start of my 365 Project (+1)

For those of you not familiar with the whole concept of a 365 project, the idea is that, come rain or shine, I will take and publish at least 1 new photograph per day for a year. You will notice that this is post 001 of 366 – 366, because

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The Octagon Tower Ely Cathedral
Churches

Ely Cathedral

We’ll stick with Ely Cathedral after yesterday’s post. If you ever visit Ely Cathedral you will find that you can take a guided tour of one of the 2 towers – your choice – either the West Tower or the Octagon tower. I decided to grab hold of my vertigo

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Christmas at Ely Cathedral
Churches

Back to Christmas…

I visited a couple of Cathedrals today – Peterborough and Ely. Both are very impressive buildings and are well worth a visit. Ely Cathedral had this very impressive Christmas tree with a nativity in front of it. I think this sums up Christmas quite nicely – don’t you?

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Looking out of Rowney Woods
HDR

What a difference a few months can make…

If you’ve been following this blog for a few months then you may recall the Viper’s Bugloss, sea of purple photograph taken looking out of Rowney Woods back in July. That field now looks like this.

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Rowney Woods Sunset
Rowney Woods

Rowney Woods Sunset

We finally made our escape from the confines of the house and Christmas and took a stroll around Rowney Woods this afternoon. Plenty of wildlife on view today including 3 hawks of some variety, a large variety of tits and finches, a number of grey squirrels and 29 deer. Not

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Pocket Watch Detail
HDR

Great Grandfather’s Pocket Watch 2

Continuing this short series, another shot of my great grandfather’s pocket watch which was made in Leeds by a Jewish jeweller called Napthali BLASEBALK of 11 Brunswick Terrace, Leeds – where the Leeds Metropolitan University now stands.

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Great Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Macro Photography

My Great Grandfather’s Pocket Watch

Right – that’s Christmas out of the way 😉 so let’s move on towards the New Year. We have a new project and web site to go with it that will be starting on New Years Day – look out for more details in the next few days. Today’s photograph

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The Starr at Christmas
Great Dunmow

The Starr at Christmas

The Starr Restaurant (where Jamie Oliver apparently once worked) in Great Dunmow always has a fine Christmas Tree outside and this year was no exception. Hope you all have a great Christmas.

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The Snow Globe
Macro Photography

It’s nearly Christmas…

Work is over for another year as we look forward to Christmas. Office parties have been successfully negotiated without too much embarrassment and we are settling in for a week and a half of over eating and drinking. Maybe we’ll get out and about, maybe we won’t, but we’ll certainly

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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.