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The Twilight Zone
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304-365v4 The Twilight Zone – Black and White Unite XXIX

This was quite fun, using the defraction of an image in a water bubble to produce this shot. It only took 102 shots to get that just about central! Should have got the tripod out instead of doing it handheld. There’s a second version below that is a bit more

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Dotty
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297-365v4 Dotty Black and White Unite XXVI

Continuing on a similar theme, this one turned out a bit too similar to the previous couple, but I made the mistake of updating Adobe Lightroom and it took an age to update, by which time I’d had enough…so this is what you get!

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Into The Abyss Black and White Unite XXV
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296-365v4 Into The Abyss Black and White Unite XXV.

After yesterday’s consideration of the amount of ink it would take to print a dark version of one of these I thought “stuff it, to hell with the ink”! And made the dark background you see here. It reminded Debbie of a Madonna video, I’m not sure if that is

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Into The Void Black and White Unite XXIV
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295-365v4 Into The Void Black and White Unite XXIV

Back to preparing some backgrounds for these types of photographs. I originally had this as white dots on transparent background, but of course ink jet printers don’t print white and I didn’t really want to use all the ink that printing all that black background would take!

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Black or White?
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291-365v4 Black or White? – Black and White Unite XXII

I dug around in my little box of bits and pieces and found the cheapo coffee beans I got from the Co-Op back in January. Despite having been used in numerous photos and having been in an opened pack for all this time they still smell delicious…and they still make

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Black and White Unite XX! Incoming Outgoing
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279-365v4 Black and White Unite XXI Incoming Outgoing

Very much an extension/continuation of the pencil shot a couple of days ago. Having looked back at that shot I think it was a mistake making that a pure black and white shot. This time I have left the little bit of colour the wood gives you and i think

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm currently the Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club (and am a past Chairman) and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions.