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Popped over to one of my favourite bug areas today over in Little Bardfield and saw plenty of Banded Demoiselles and Mayflies, along with a collection of beetles and this butterfly, a speckled wood.
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Popped over to one of my favourite bug areas today over in Little Bardfield and saw plenty of Banded Demoiselles and Mayflies, along with a collection of beetles and this butterfly, a speckled wood.

As I drove back from work the rain started…fairly typical for the start of a bank holiday weekend. The rain stopped around sunset and I popped out into the garden to shoot these foxgloves that have recently started to bloom.

We had a night out at the bowling with work tonight – I took the camera along but it was so dark I was shooting at 800 and 1600 ISO all night…and my camera does not work well at 800 ISO, let alone 1600 so I came home with some

Just a quick sunset shot for tonight of Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow.

The Bishops Stortford Camera Club gathered at the Three Horse Shoes at Spellbrook for a bit of bring your camera manual self-help training. Despite spending most of the night chatting about all sorts of non-camera related things I still came away having learnt how to set the white balance on
After a large downpour this evening we were treated to a very pleasant sunset including great dollops of mist rolling down the surrounding hills.

We had the promised downpours early evening today. By 8.30 I was just finishing my dinner and thought I’d pop out and see what sort of sunset we’d get. It was a cracker…if only I’d been out 15 minutes earlier! Never mind, the heavy rain that had fallen was quickly

We took a walk through Rowney Woods and around the surrounding farmland. It was 27 degrees – way to hot for a long walk – and we were exhausted when we got back. All the recent rain and then this sudden explosion of heat has made everything very verdant. The

Across Doctors Pond at the moment is new life…except for these characters 😉
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