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Speckled Wood Butterfly and Daisy
Bugs and Critters

The Speckled Wood Butterfly and the Daisy

I’m full of cold and miserable so let’s warm up a bit. This was taken on a lovely summers day – 30th July to be precise and was taken in Little Bardfield in Essex. I like the fact that the butterfly is sharp and the daisy is out of focus,

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Nikon in London
London Photo Walk

Nikon at Shad Thames

On the recent London Photowalk we visited the Shad Thames area which is instantly recognisable, even now, as the warehouse area featured in The Doctor Who series Resurrection of the Daleks in 1984. If you venture off the main cobbled street you’ll find squares formed by the restored warehousing and

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Trapped
Rowney Woods

Trapped

On the way into (and, indeed, the way out of) Rowney Woods there is a long, quite dreary walk down a stony road with old nissen huts down one side (presumably left over from the Second World War) and a field on the other side. The road is lined with

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Harris Hawk
Bugs and Critters

Harris Hawk

This one is from back in August and was taken at the Countess of Warwick’s Country Show in Little Easton. There was a chap there displaying his falconry skills and his birds of prey and this Harris Hawk was part of them. They originally come from the south western United

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Rowney Woods Pine Logs
Rowney Woods

Rowney Woods Pine Stack

The pine stacks are slowly being taken away from Rowney Woods, as soon as you walk into the woods you immediately smell the fresh pine so it will be a shame when it’s all gone. The woods are in constant change at the moment with autumn nearing completion and winter

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Marbles
Macro Photography

Marbles…he’s lost his…

I was wondering what to photograph today and thought it might be fun to shoot some marbles with my macro lens. So out I popped to the local shop and came back with a small bag of marbles. They’re not as good as the ones I remember as a child…but

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Bearded Dragon
Bugs and Critters

The Bearded Dragon

Back to the Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club… I don’t recall ever having seen a bearded dragon in real life before but, in real life, they are not as spooky as they sound, quite the contrary.

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Manuden Mushrooms
Macro Photography

Mushrooms in Manuden

Back to the Essex countryside and some more fungus for you. We visited Manuden and the surrounding area last weekend. As you walk out of Manuden up the hill and back into the country we found these, and many more like them, florishing on a farmers field. Turning back you

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Stick Insect
Macro Photography

Stick Insect

I’ve finally given up football – 12 years in the service of Dunmow Football Club is long enough for anyone and I was beginning to not enjoy the football. So, having been aware that the Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club met on a Tuesday, which previously clashed with football training, I

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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.