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Macro Photography

That M & M moment

There comes a point in every photographers life that they take the M&M’s shot….here’s one of mine.

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Slug
Bugs and Critters

Slug City

Our back garden, probably as in most other back gardens, is full of slugs and snails. As with many of these types of creature I have always dismissed them as slimy messy things that get under my feet when it’s dark in the garden. Up close, they are quite interesting

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Fallen Apple
The Essex Countryside

Autumn Fruit Fall

As is rapidly becoming our custom we visited Rowney Woods again today. We are now expanding our walks to include the countryside around the woods and continued out to the Debden Green area. The weather has been odd this year with summer starting early, pausing and then restarting a couple

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Looking Out From Little Dunmow
HDR

Little Dunmow

The original home of the Flitch Trials, Little Dunmow is located about 4 miles from Great Dunmow and, as the name implies is substantially smaller. Today’s picture was taken on Saturday evening as the sun set. The picture was taken, looking out from the Little Dunmow Priory Church.

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Under the A120
Great Dunmow

Underneath the A120

The A120 connects Great Dunmow with Bishop’s Stortford and the M11 (and thus London) in one direction and Braintree and Colchester in the other. It’s the most important road in the immediate area and was recently turned into a dual carriageway and bypassed around Dunmow. Walking down the Flitch Way

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Orange Rose - Colour
Black & White

Black and White or Colour?

You choose 😉 I’m really quite undecided. I found these roses at the Foakes Hall in Great Dunmow this afternoon. I love the black and white conversion, but the orange is so vivid (at least I hope it’s orange – colour blind and all that)…

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Palisades
Great Dunmow

Palisades

Keeping the slightly industrial / metal feel going, today’s photograph is of some palasades in Dunmow. The fact that they were photographed in Dunmow is neither here nor there, a palisade is, after all, a palisade. As if to confirm this, Google could not locate a palisade appreciation site 😉

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Duelling Geese on Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow
Birds

Canada Geese On Doctors Pond 2

You may recall our last post about the Canada Geese that frequent the Doctors Pond here in Dunmow, and I mentioned they liked to have a good go at each other. Well, here’s a good example taken earlier this year.

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Migrant Hawker Dragonfly, Aeshna mixta
Bugs and Critters

The Migrant Hawker Dragonfly, Aeshna mixta

We took a walk down the Flitch Way this afternoon, starting in Little Dunmow walking down to the edge of Great Dunmow and then completing a circle back to Little Dunmow. After being deluged by a short, sharp shower we came across this female Migarnt Hawker Dragonfly.

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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.