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2021 - 365 Project

020-365v4 Minimalist Abstraction

Yesterday evening at Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club we had a talk via Zoom from a very fine architectural photographer Iñaki Hernández-Lasa who discussed, amongst other things, abstract and minimalist photography – it’s well worth taking a look at his web site for some fantastic images. Now Iñaki has the advantage

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King of The Castle
2021 - 365 Project

019-365v4 The Garden Comes Up Trumps Again

Stuck in with work all day again, I was able to get some nice shots of some of our visitors to the garden today including 2 squirells, ratty and a blue tit. We had plenty of other visitors but these are the ones that were prepared to have their photographs

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Dawn on Bigods Lane, Great Dunmow
2021 - 365 Project

018/365v4 From Couch to a Coronary

Back at the start of the year one of my resolutions was to get fit and a facebook friend had mentioned how good he had found the NHS Couch to 5k program to be. This sounded like a good idea, I mean, it was being pushed by the NHS so

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Great Dunmow Parish Church
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A Spring Stroll Around Great Dunmow

Another catch up post, this time from May 2019 when I took a walk around the North part of Great Dunmow via the church towards Little Easton, back along Bigods Lane and then on to Doctors Pond. As always we had plenty of wildlife on the pond and generally around

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tree branch capillaries
2021 - 365 Project

017-365v4 Tree Branch Capillaries

I got lost in redesigning a web site today and so am late posting my daily picture, at least I had some images to select from! We went on a short walk around Dunmow this afternoon and passed a couple of trees I’ve photographed on a number of occassions. They

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How to Spike Your Hair
2021 - 365 Project

016-365v4 How to Spike Your Hair

This lovely Blue Tit was busy moving back and forth to one of our feeding areas and he settled in this Maple tree to finish his seed and then sort out his hair. I love the colour pallet on this shot, it’s not the usual colour pallet that we get

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Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
2021 - 365 Project

015-365v4 Well Hello!

We have a lovely “flock” of Goldfinches, 6 of them, who visit our feeder regularly. This chap was very keen to say hello this morning, they ave a lovely song so you can usually hear them before they arrive. We have the promise of some snow tomorrow, first thing in

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Don McCullin Rules
2021 - 365 Project

014-365v4 Don McCullin Rules

I spent some time photographing my wife’s water bottle today, you do that sort of thing when you are doing a daily project and it has rained consistently all day, but in the end, this rather simpler shot pleased me more. I’m a big fan of photo books, although the

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Ratty
2021 - 365 Project

013-365v4 Ratty

We’ve had a bit of a rat issue in the garden over the last year. We have a completely walled garden and we have lived here for over 20 years, but only recently have rats been visiting, we think because the neighbour has logs piled up against the wall they

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Zeiss Icon Nettar Open, angled
2021 - 365 Project

012-365v4 Zeiss Ikon Nettar II 518/16

This is my Zeiss Ikon Nettar camera that I used last Saturday. It shoots 12 x 6 x 6 images per roll of 120 film. This particular camera has a Novar Anastigmat 4.5/75 lens and a Pronto shutter and was manufactured between Jul 52 and Feb 59, so is older than

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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.