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Staring at the Starlings waiting for the Snow
2021 - 365 Project

024-365v4 Staring at the Starlings waiting for the Snow

Today was supposed to be a snow day. It was due to start at 11am (it did) and continue until the evening (it did). What is didn’t do, in Great Dunmow at least, is settle to any degree, which rather buggered my photo plans for the day. Not only that,

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Glass of Water Twirled with colour enhanced
2021 - 365 Project

023-365v4 A Glass of Water

I spent some of last year obsessing over these twirl images. This is a glass of sparkling water shot from above and then tweaked with some additional colour. You can see the original shot and the unenhanced version of the final image below. This is a useful fall back when

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By the River Chelmer
2021 - 365 Project

Five Tree Walk

I do the same walk in the morning three times a week (and during lockdown I often do it for a 4th time at the weekend). My wife is often surprised that I don’t get bored of it and, strangely, I don’t. It’s a 5km distance from door back to

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5 Views of Blytheburgh Trinity Church
2021 - 365 Project

021-365v4 5 Views of Blythburgh Trinity Church

I had to work in Lowestoft today, so on my way home I stopped off for a little exercise and a trot around this Church that I have always fancied visiting as I have driven past it to and from Lowestoft many times. You get pretty good views of it

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Abstract 1
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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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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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.