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The Octagon Tower Ely Cathedral
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Ely Cathedral

We’ll stick with Ely Cathedral after yesterday’s post. If you ever visit Ely Cathedral you will find that you can take a guided tour of one of the 2 towers – your choice – either the West Tower or the Octagon tower. I decided to grab hold of my vertigo

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Christmas at Ely Cathedral
Churches

Back to Christmas…

I visited a couple of Cathedrals today – Peterborough and Ely. Both are very impressive buildings and are well worth a visit. Ely Cathedral had this very impressive Christmas tree with a nativity in front of it. I think this sums up Christmas quite nicely – don’t you?

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Looking out of Rowney Woods
HDR

What a difference a few months can make…

If you’ve been following this blog for a few months then you may recall the Viper’s Bugloss, sea of purple photograph taken looking out of Rowney Woods back in July. That field now looks like this.

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Underneath Walton Pier
HDR

Underneath the Pier

In many respects the underside of the Walton Pier was more interesting than the top side…or maybe that’s just me. This picture is made up of 9 original shots combined in an HDR (high dynamic range) image. The image was then styled using On One’s Perfect Photo Suite 6…so now

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St Pauls from Millenium Bridge
Churches

Millenium Bridge and St Pauls Cathedral

Two for the price of one, combining 2 of probably the top 10 most photographed structures in London. When I got home from London on Sunday I transferred all my images to my computer and discovered I made quite a blunder. I’d shot the whole day in ISO800. What that

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Leez Lodge Lakes Sunset
HDR

Finally…the sunset at Leez Lodge Lake

So, after a few posts we’ve made it to the actual sunset shot. It really was a beautiful evening, I had half expected the lake to be full of fishermen but it was deserted, except for me, loads of birds and the occasional fish who broke water periodically. Whilst sitting

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The Radcliffe Camera HDR
Black & White

The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford – HDR and LDR

Obviously, when you walk around Oxford it is the architecture that catches your eye, sandstone abounds. We had absolutely glorious weather on Saturday for the Scott Kelby Worldwide Walk, which isn’t the best light to capture great images so here are a couple of versions of the same image where

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Aythorpe Windmill at Sunset
HDR

Sunset at Aythorpe Roding Windmill

Are you on Google+ yet? If you are you can see more of my ramblings and pictures at gplus.to/markseton Photography teachers always tell you that there are 2 times in the day that have the best light for photography – sunrise and sunset. I’ve made many excuses for not being

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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.