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Autumn on The Chelmer, Great Dunmow
2012 - 366 Project

288/366 Autumn on the River Chelmer, Great Dunmow

Sunday started reasonably early for me as I had to complete my second assignment for the marketing diploma I’m currently taking. I wanted to spend the whole day at it so made sure I got out early to capture the days photograph. It was a glorious, warm, autumn morning with

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Photographer in the Mist
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Photographer in the Mist

Hatfield Forest is a 15 minute drive from Great Dunmow so we visit quite regularly. On this particular visit I went along at dawn with a group of photographers from the Dunmow Photography Club

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The Dunmow Carnival

The Dunmow Carnival chugs past our house every year…this year “chug” was the operative word as this tractor made it’s way up towards Dunmow High Street

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A Wild Flower photographed in the Dunmow Cutting
Great Dunmow

Wild Flowers in Dunmow Cutting

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

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New Pond
2012 - 366 Project

224/366 New Pond

Well, it’s new to me ;-). Followers of my 365 project will have seen a number of shots of Doctor’s Pond over the last 8 months or so. I took a stroll up Beaumont Hill heading out of Dunmow and saw a public footpath sign I hadn’t seen before, followed

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Double Rainbow over Doctors Pond
2012 - 366 Project

211/366 A Double Rainbow over Doctors Pond

Sunshine and showers sums this afternoon up well. We were enjoying the latest downpour when I realised that there was a great deal of sunlight so dashed upstairs and saw a double rainbow out of our landing window. The trouble was, it was chucking it down, but I thought, if

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The Starr Restaurant during the Flitch Trials 2012
2012 - 366 Project

196/366 The Dunmow Flitch Trials and The Starr

Today in Great Dunmow the Flitch Trials were held. These trials test the love and commitment of couples who have been married for at least a year and a day who have to prove that they live in marital harmony. Held every four years these trials have taken place since

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…and the mist rolled in

After a large downpour this evening we were treated to a very pleasant sunset including great dollops of mist rolling down the surrounding hills.

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Sinister Scarecrow
2012 - 366 Project

105/366 Sinister Scarecrow

Now, I understand that scarecrows are there to scare, but do they need to be this sinister 😉 He was doing a fine job mind – no birds in sight.

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Out the landing window - Part 2
2012 - 366 Project

101/366 Out the landing window – Part 2

So – this is a follow up to a shot I did on Day 41, this is taken out of the same window, but we are now, of course, into Spring. The window is still sealed shut and dirty – so it took ages to photoshop all the muck out

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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.