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The Man of Steel's Breakfast Colour
2021 - 365 Project

076-365v4 The Man of Steel’s Breakfast

Why do I always work out the best way to set something up when I have struggled for ages with the worst way to set something up? Thus it was this evening when I struggled to get these steel ball bearings to stay where I wanted them. I’d done about

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One For Sorrow
2021 - 365 Project

075/365v4 One For Sorrow

This is another image I’ve made for a camera club competition. You have to pick 4 subjects from a list of 8 and produce 4 images based on those 4 subjects with only images you have taken in the last year. This image is in response to the subject “signs”.

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2021 - 365 Project

074-365v4 Same Tree But Backwards

This is the usual tree from my morning walk, but this time from the other side. I don’t usually shoot this from this side of the tree simply becasue it is not as good a form from this side. The odd thing is, it looks terrible if you look at

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2021 - 365 Project

073-365v4 Spring Blossoms

Stepping away from the black and white unite project, we went out for a very pleasant spring walk this morning and saw plenty of spring blossom around…so here’s a small selection.

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Black and White Unite IV.
2021 - 365 Project

072-365v4 Black and White Unite IV

A continuation on the theme…I rather like this one. Some good leading lines and, I hope, some atmosphere. This was done with a long shutter speed and the whole image was lit by a torch with a bit of light painting (which I haven’t done for ages).

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March of the Baldheads
2021 - 365 Project

070-365v4 Black and White Unite III.

AKA March of the bald heads. I wish I would start making these photographs a little earlier! I left it right to the last minute again, but at least this time I was able to produce images that I was aiming for yesterday. You have 4 to go at –

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Black and White Unite II
2021 - 365 Project

069-365v4 Black and White Unite II

As often happens, this isn’t the shot I wanted to take. I created a black and white checkboard for a different image, but I didn’t make the squares small enough, so I’m going to have to make some new ones. So, I thought I’d have a go at the water

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If It Fits I Sits
2021 - 365 Project

068-365v4 If It Fits I Sits

This is our old cat Badger, who you will find him, periodically throughout the blog although I haven’t photographed him for a while. He’s not been well recently and is suffering from kidney failure but he continues to entertain us and wake us (well, Debbie) up at 4 in the

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Shake Ya Tail Feathers
2021 - 365 Project

067-365v4 Scrub a Dub Dunnock – aka Shake Ya Tail Feathers

One of our regular visitors, the Dunnock decided today was the day for a proper brush up so he carefully avoided the actual birdbath that we have kindly provided amd decided the flooded plant pot would do much better. S/he was in there for ages and made sure she was

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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.