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Les Paul Studio Bridge Detail
Macro Photography

Turn it up…loud

This is my Les Paul Studio guitar, much loved but recently not much played. At the moment I tend to play my acoustic guitar due to being very lazy! It’s just so much easier picking up the acoustic than digging out the amp, peddles, cables, plugging it in, tune it

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Pure Green
Macro Photography

I’ve created some Green…

…remember that line from Blackadder II when the foolish Lord Percy Percy took up alchemy and created “pure Green”? That kind of sprang to mind with this picture. This flower came in a cheap bunch I picked up from Tesco’s specifically to photograph, Debbie was less than impressed 😉 I

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A Summer Afternoon at the Windmill
HDR

Aythorpe Roding Windmill Revisited

Well, it was -3c last night so I thought it was about time to revisit last summer and warm ourselves up again. So here’s how the windmill at Aythorpe Roding looked on a hot August afternoon.

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Starfish
Macro Photography

Starfish

You don’t get many starfish in Dunmow. This one came from Harlow. I was stuck in waiting for the gas man to come round and service my boiler, which he did, an hour late, but that was fine. I was glad of having visited the craft store in Harlow where

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Moon Ring
Great Dunmow

Weird Moon Phenomenon – A Moon Ring

Walking back from the car just 10 minutes ago (it’s 00.05 on the 9/12/11) I looked up at the moon and noticed a very visible and clear circle around the moon. I popped inside and got my camera. Now, the technical qualities of the photograph aren’t necessarily great, but hand-held

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Blossom
The Essex Countryside

Hawthorn Blossom

We’re on a bit of a roll with the flower images so let’s carry on. Below is a picture captured back on the 3rd April this year of some hawthorn blossom.

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Decay
Macro Photography

Slow Decay

From the same bunch of flowers as yesterday’s chrysanthemum comes this rose. A fairly clear difference, and yet, to me anyway, a more interesting picture. It reminds me of dried tobacco leaves.

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Chrysanthemum
Macro Photography

Chrysanthemum

Here’s a macro of some chrysanthemum’s we had about the house this weekend – we’d got these, amongst various other flowers last weekend so they had lasted pretty well.

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Oxlip
The Essex Countryside

Rarity

We’ve been going through this years pictures to put together a retrospective off the year. It’s amazing how many pictures I have completely forgotten taking. Take this one for example. I’m told this is an Oxlip and is a protected species. This picture was taken in West Wood near Thaxted.

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Dolphin Child and Tower Bridge
London Photo Walk

….And the winner is…

…this picture from the last London Photowalk came top of the pile. I just found out today and am well chuffed! See the London Photowalk web page here. You might have seen a slightly different version of this image on this blog a couple of weeks ago – just click

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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.