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The Radcliffe Camera HDR
Black & White

The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford – HDR and LDR

Obviously, when you walk around Oxford it is the architecture that catches your eye, sandstone abounds. We had absolutely glorious weather on Saturday for the Scott Kelby Worldwide Walk, which isn’t the best light to capture great images so here are a couple of versions of the same image where

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A Snowman in Oxford Covered Market
Macro Photography

Christmas is coming!

It’s never to early for a bit of Christmas shopping is it? 1st October and about 27c outside, inside the Oxford covered market these (and many others like it) were on proud display! Well, i suppose it was only 84 days till Christmas.

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'Av a heart
Macro Photography

Have a Heart!

Not one for the squeamish today… On Saturday I visited Oxford as part of the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk. I’d never visited this city before and was impressed by its architecture and history, sadly my photographic skills did not come to the fore and I struggled to get many good

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Funky Fungus in Rowney Woods
Macro Photography

Funky Fungi in Rowney Woods

Back to the woods, and back to the fungi. I like this picture of the fungi because it’s not perfect in two ways, the depth of field is a little too narrow and the state of the fungi leaves a lot to be desired! Have you ever found a perfect

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Daisy Art
Macro Photography

Daisy Art

I’m having a go at something new. Creating something more than just a photograph using some textures and OnOne’s Photo Frame program. The main texture used was a large muddy puddle, so there’s a good mix of pretty and ugly… I removed the texture from the centre of the daisy

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Common Frog
Animals

Common Frog – Rana temporaria – Rowney Woods

Back to Rowney Woods between Thaxted and Saffron Walden in Essex. These woods abound with wildlife and we saw something on Sunday that we haven’t seen before here – a frog: I mucked up taking this photograph, I’d forgotten to change my f-stop and was at f14 so I had

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Figs going into the oven
Macro Photography

Tonight’s Desert

We’ll step away from the usual format today and have a look at the pudding we had with our tea tonight. Figs with Muscovado Sugar and a nob of butter with a side order of vanilla ice cream – Green and Blacks –  Delicious!

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Aythorpe Windmill at Sunset
HDR

Sunset at Aythorpe Roding Windmill

Are you on Google+ yet? If you are you can see more of my ramblings and pictures at gplus.to/markseton Photography teachers always tell you that there are 2 times in the day that have the best light for photography – sunrise and sunset. I’ve made many excuses for not being

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Close to the Sun...flower
Macro Photography

Close to the Sun…Flower

I started to follow a photographer (one of many) on Google+ called Colby Brown and he made a fantastic image of a field of sunflowers you can see here. I’d seen, unexpectedly, some sunflowers peaking out from a hedge on my way home from work, so I thought I’d give

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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.