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By the River Chelmer
2021 - 365 Project

Five Tree Walk

I do the same walk in the morning three times a week (and during lockdown I often do it for a 4th time at the weekend). My wife is often surprised that I don’t get bored of it and, strangely, I don’t. It’s a 5km distance from door back to

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King of The Castle
2021 - 365 Project

019-365v4 The Garden Comes Up Trumps Again

Stuck in with work all day again, I was able to get some nice shots of some of our visitors to the garden today including 2 squirells, ratty and a blue tit. We had plenty of other visitors but these are the ones that were prepared to have their photographs

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Great Dunmow Parish Church
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A Spring Stroll Around Great Dunmow

Another catch up post, this time from May 2019 when I took a walk around the North part of Great Dunmow via the church towards Little Easton, back along Bigods Lane and then on to Doctors Pond. As always we had plenty of wildlife on the pond and generally around

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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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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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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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296/365v3 – Trees, Clouds and Bird Song

I only had my tiny Manfrotto table tripod with me so decided to go for that low to the ground look…which worked until, inexplicably, the camera changed its focus…but in the end I quite liked it anyway! I added a bird song soundtrack which I recorded a week earlier about

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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.