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Autumn in Rickling Green
The Essex Countryside

Autumn in Rickling Green

We first visited Rickling Green in the summer – cricket was being played on the green and the weather was beautiful. Step a few months ahead and we are well into Autumn, a mild and dry autumn admittedly, but Autumn none the less. So it was interesting to take the

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Plate Fungus
Rowney Woods

Plate Fungus

I like mushrooms and I like finding fungus of any type to photograph, so much so that we both keep a close eye out for it and are almost as excited by its discovery as we are when a deer makes an appearance…well OK, maybe excited isn’t really the word.

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Terling Ford
The Essex Countryside

The Ford at Turling

Whilst walking to Turling we had seen a few road signs pointing to the ford, but warning that there was no vehicle access across it, fairly unusual as a ford, by its nature is supposed to be a shallow, crossable, part of a water course. Clearly, this one wasn’t, although

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Fallow Deer Stag
Bugs and Critters

Deer, Deer, Dear

Back to Rowney Woods this morning where we saw a whole mass of fallow deer. we started by seeing a loan stag patroling the edge of the woods on his own, he looked quite young.

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Autumnal Covering
The Essex Countryside

Surrounded by Autumn

On the same walk as yesterday’s blog subject was this covered path with green leaves above and dead, red/brown below. This was the first photograph of the walk mentioned in yesterday’s blog and was taken in Brookes Nature Reserve near Stisted, which was where we discovered the inadequacies of the

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The house on the corner
The Essex Countryside

The house on the corner

We took a walk around a small village called Sisted near Braintree last week. It’s probably the first walk we’ve had in the area that we didn’t enjoy mainly because the map/instructions weren’t very good/accurate and the local farmers were harvesting the sugar beet meaning that the public footpaths across

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Misty Rowney Woods
Black & White

Misty morning in Rowney Woods

I’m sure it will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this blog for a month or two that the Rowney Woods would feature again. We paid another early morning visit last Sunday, but with the days drawing in we were able to leave at a much more

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Electrified Tree
The Essex Countryside

What, more pylons?

You know we have inadvertently fallen for the charms of the pylon – just check out this previous pylon post and this previous pylon post. Of course, the real subject of the following photographs weren’t the pylons, it was the electrified tree found slap bang in the middle…honest.

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Sunset over All Saints Church Great Leighs
Churches

All Saints Church, Great Leighs at Sunset

This image has been pretty popular on my Flickr pages – if you want to see many more of my pictures this is the place to go – I only show a small number of pictures on this site. Just click the Flickr link towards the top of the page

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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.