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Aldeburgh Groyne
HDR

Groynes at Aldeburgh

A common sight on the North Sea coastline are groynes, ordinarily these are pretty old and derelict, but Aldeburgh have a set of nice new ones.

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Almshouses and the moon at Thaxted
Churches

Dusk at Thaxted Church

I popped out to Thaxted again to capture the sunset…one day it won’t be so cloudy…anyhow, I took this photograph of the setting moon coming down over the Almshouses and graveyard – it looks straight out of a fairy tale.

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St Mary's Great Dunmow
Churches

St Mary’s Church, Great Dunmow

Along with the photograph of Doctors Pond taken at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning I also took this one of Great Dunmow’s Parish Church. I’ve photographed loads of Churches in Essex over the last 6 months or so, but strangely haven’t investigated my local church in Dunmow, so,

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Stumped
HDR

Stumped!

You’ll often find me scrabbling about dry stream beds on a Saturday. This one wasn’t quite as dry as it looked. I stepped into the middle of it and started sinking at a rapid rate! Still, in the middle of the “dry” stream was this old stump: Does this win

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Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow
Doctors Pond

Cat causes an early rise

Saturday night I joked with my wife that I really needed to be up at the crack of dawn to catch the sun rise, especially in view of the good weather we’re having, we agreed, there was no chance I’d get up at 5.00am to catch it…clearly the cat had

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St Andrews Willingale down The Aisle
Churches

The Church of St Andrew and All Saints Willingale Spain

At the weekend I traveled to the southernmost  point in the Dunmow Hundred (a hundred was a subdivision of a county or shire listed in the Doomsday Book details of the Dunmow Hundred can be found here). Willingale has the unusual distinction of having two churches built next door to

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Bob's Gravestone
Churches

An Homage

“He spent fifteen years getting loaded Fifteen years ’till his liver exploded Now what’s Bob gonna do now that he can’t drink?” NOFX – Bob

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The Annex
Great Dunmow

The Derelict Annex

Back in June we had a look at the Old Farm Shop, a derelict building between Great Dunmow and Little Easton. right next door to this building is this derelict annex: This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photograph – it’s a very “marmite” style – some love ’em, some

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Berners Roding Church Crumbling Away
Churches

The Dereliction of Berners Roding Church

A couple more images taken from Berners Roding Church as it slowly crumbles into the ground. The images in this short series are all HDR images produced using Photomatix and have also all had additional processing using On One’s Photo Tools in Photoshop. You can see in the image above

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Berners Roding Church Looking In
Churches

Berners Roding Church

If you’ve been following this blog you will now know that I enjoy photographing Churches and derelict buildings…so what could be better than to find a derelict Church! Berners Roding Church is certainly in a poor state. Rumour has it that it may be sold for residential use, though the

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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.