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tree branch capillaries
2021 - 365 Project

017-365v4 Tree Branch Capillaries

I got lost in redesigning a web site today and so am late posting my daily picture, at least I had some images to select from! We went on a short walk around Dunmow this afternoon and passed a couple of trees I’ve photographed on a number of occassions. They

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How to Spike Your Hair
2021 - 365 Project

016-365v4 How to Spike Your Hair

This lovely Blue Tit was busy moving back and forth to one of our feeding areas and he settled in this Maple tree to finish his seed and then sort out his hair. I love the colour pallet on this shot, it’s not the usual colour pallet that we get

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Canvey Horses
Industrial

Canvey Island

About 4 years ago I visited Canvey Island for the first time and really enjoyed walking around its town and its Industrial area. I had to deliver some equipment to Southend just before Christmas and, because the weather wasn’t great, I dodged the beach at Westcliff on Sea (well, the

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Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow, Essex
2021 - 365 Project

001-365v4 – A Grey Start to the Year

The BBC weather forecast suggested mist and -2°C temperatures and a sunrise at 8.06am. I thought that would make a nice shot, maybe not the rising sun, but a bit of mystery from the mist and some frost would make a decent shot. I was to be disappointed. I was

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Buzzard in flight
Birds

Buzzard Fly Past

We had our weekend walk around Rowney Woods near Saffrom Walden and saw a couple of Buzzrads flying in the distance. Unusually, 1 of them left his usual area and gave us a fly past as he headed off to pastures new.

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Beached
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Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea

I spent an incredibly blowy afternoon walking amongst the boats at Thorpe Bay this afternoon. I had hoped to be able to get some nice long exposures with great reflections in the water, but that wasn’t to be with the gale blowing in from the sea. Still, I was able

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Point of Interest
Black & White

Dovercourt Lighthouse and Scaffolding

I had a couple of pictures I wanted to go out and get last weekend of the lighthouse over at Dovercourt. It’s an hours drive away so I was not overly pleased to find the lighthouse surrounded in scaffolding…still, I’d got out and I have photoshop…so I got to it

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The Star Resturant, Great Dunmow, Essex
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The Star, Great Dunmow

It’s been a while since I took a shot of The Star in Great Dunmow…and it’s a while since I took this particular shot, but I hadn’t realised that I hadn’t posted this here.

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A female sparrowhawk with kill
Birds

Birds of a Feather

This female Sparrowhawk caught her dinner in our back garden – I noticed the fact when I walked into the kitchen to make a cup of tea…you couldn’t miss all those feathers. I was able to pop my lens through the cat flap to get to the birds eye-level and

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2016 - 365 Project

298/365v3 – Moorhen Chicks

The Moorhens around Doctors Pond have been doing very well this year…lots of Chicks. We didn’t have any Moorhens here until 4 or 5 years ago, we now have at least 2 well established families.

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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.