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Leez Lodge Lakes
HDR

Leez Lodge Lakes

Back to Leez Lodge Lakes and an HDR image of the lakes. I’ve been trying to add this image (and indeed, some other images from this set) for a week or two and the web site won’t have it! So I am falling back on the tusty Flickr site to

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The Old Runway Little Easton
HDR

The Old Runway at Little Easton

A picture from much earlier this year of the old runway at Little Easton. I’m assuming this is the remains of the runway used during the second world war by the USA Air Force 386th Bombardment Group known as “The Crusaders”

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The Cracked Bridge
HDR

Leez Lodge Lakes

Following on from yesterday’s blog, here’s a small pond and stream near (and feeding) the Leez Lodge Lakes. I had to fight my way into this area and those green sticks had some vicious barbs on them, as I was taking the photograph I was aware my tripod was slowly

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Grasslands
HDR

Grasslands

I’ve not done any HDR photography for a little while…until today, when a pretty drab day demanded it. I had a walk around Leez Priory and the lake there. Just before you get to the lake there is this meadow. What particularly attracted me to this area were the patches

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St Mary's Great Dunmow
Churches

St Mary’s Church, Great Dunmow

Along with the photograph of Doctors Pond taken at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning I also took this one of Great Dunmow’s Parish Church. I’ve photographed loads of Churches in Essex over the last 6 months or so, but strangely haven’t investigated my local church in Dunmow, so,

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Stumped
HDR

Stumped!

You’ll often find me scrabbling about dry stream beds on a Saturday. This one wasn’t quite as dry as it looked. I stepped into the middle of it and started sinking at a rapid rate! Still, in the middle of the “dry” stream was this old stump: Does this win

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Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow
Doctors Pond

Cat causes an early rise

Saturday night I joked with my wife that I really needed to be up at the crack of dawn to catch the sun rise, especially in view of the good weather we’re having, we agreed, there was no chance I’d get up at 5.00am to catch it…clearly the cat had

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St Andrews Willingale down The Aisle
Churches

The Church of St Andrew and All Saints Willingale Spain

At the weekend I traveled to the southernmost  point in the Dunmow Hundred (a hundred was a subdivision of a county or shire listed in the Doomsday Book details of the Dunmow Hundred can be found here). Willingale has the unusual distinction of having two churches built next door to

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The Annex
Great Dunmow

The Derelict Annex

Back in June we had a look at the Old Farm Shop, a derelict building between Great Dunmow and Little Easton. right next door to this building is this derelict annex: This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photograph – it’s a very “marmite” style – some love ’em, some

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Inside a Gorge Casemate North Weald Redoubt
Dereliction

The Gorge Casemates at North Weald Redoubt

Continuing our look at the North Weald Redoubt, this is the view at one end of the Gorge Casemates looking way back along the corridor, the divisions of each individual room or storage area can be seen quite clearly. Coming back out of the gorge casemates you can see a

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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.