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Bishops Stortford Camera Club today and we returned to Hatfield Forest for a bit of light painting. When I arrived I had just missed the full sunset…but this wasn’t too shabby.
My mate Mat is the grasshopper king so I was delighted to find this fella in the undergrowth at Dunmow cutting this afternoon He very obligingly popped onto the grass stalk for me to photograph him 😉
If you follow the Flitch Way out of Great Dunmow towards Takeley you will come across the Dunmow Cutting. The Flitch Way was, of course, the main Railway line between Bishops Stortford and Braintree and the Dunmow Cutting is a remnant of that with its path between 2 steep sided
We took a walk around Ingatestone this afternoon and came across this very old (originally at least) church. Dating back to the 12th century. I can’t tell you a great deal more about it…other than to say, there is definitely a wasp problem here!
On a walk around Ingatestone in Essex we came across this field that had recently been harvested.
This was one of my first attempts to shoot with my ultra wide angle lens. I found it very difficult to use to start with, but I’m getting the hang of it now!. This is a shot taken inside Chalkney Church, now disused but maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust.
Around England their are many redundant churches looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust. Near Broxted is St Mary’s in Chickney which is one such church. This is the altar area – if you have such a church near you they are well worth a visit.
This was the wife’s idea…I’m taking no responsibility for this at all 😉
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