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I walk past this Toy Shop on my walk in the morning and I’ve photographed it a lot, but mainly on film, in the past. Today I had my macro lens on the camera and I got this shot, which is by far my favourite of all the shots I’ve
We always get poppies growing on the roadside on Bigods Lane. I wasn’t sure we would see them this year as the farmer has been cutting the grass verges regularly. Not only that, but one area where they usually grow had been turned into an emergency path during some flooding
The second (you can see the first here) shot from/of the High Street in Great Dunmow. I’ve taken occasional shots of the High Street over the years, but thought it might be a good side project to photograph all the shops etc along the High Street. It would be easy
It’s been pretty warm in Dunmow today, even at 7:30am when this picture was taken it was really quite warm…so I gave this ox-eye daisy a run through the “flood” filter in photoshop to give this melting sort of look.
One of the good things about doing a 365 photo a day project is the fact that you are encouraged to use all the gear you have piled up but don’t use that much. I’ve certainly suffered from GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) and I have the additional failing that I
I broke out my infra-red converted Nikon D60 camera for the first time this year, depsite the fact that it was overcast first thing this morning. I’d decided I was going to use it last night and charged the battery up so wasn’t going to be put off by a
I’ve got 2 x 66 posts…and I really can’t be bothered working my way backwards renaming every page…so we’ve just skipped number 133, but it’s there…or is it a kind of Schrödinger’s 133… So, today we have our rather splendid Coal Tit…who’s been looking more and more harrassed as this
Just a quick shot from my morning walk around Great Dunmow. This is one of those “unofficial” entrances to the graveyard from the adjoining farmers field.
This mornings walk was nicely timed between showers and I had a very pleasant walk around this part of Dunmow. I’ve been doing this walk for many years and whilst house building work has taken up some of the fields (and a pub I used to frequent) on my walk
Today is election day in the UK as we vote for representatives in the County Halls amongst other things, so I took advantage of being out and about and took my camera. As is often the way, especially for these local elections, it was pretty quiet at the polling station,
