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Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow, Essex
2014 - 365 Project

063/365v2 Doctors Pond

I had to pop out to the Post Office this morning and it was such a beautiful morning that I grabbed a few shots of Doctors Pond on my way back. This is a 3 shot HDR taken on my Sony NEX7 and processed using photomatix, lightroom, photoshop, with a

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Dovercourt Lighthouse at Sunset
HDR

Dovercourt Lighthouse in Colour

I’ve published a couple of pictures of the lighthouses at Dovercourt before, but none in colour before. This was taken using my smaller Sony NEX7 camera whilst I was photographing the lighthouse with my main Nikon D800 camera. The D800 was taking a long (4 minutes or so) exposure which

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Thorndon Country Park
2014 - 365 Project

053/365v2 Thorndon Country Park

We visited Thorndon Country Park today and had a long walk around it. There are some lovely wood sections, but I’m always a sucker for a view and their were some great ones out towards Kent. This was an HDR shot that I then dabbled with both the oil paint

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2013 - 52 Week Project

39/52 Hatfield Forest Lake at Sunset

Another of my more regular haunts for photography. This is the lake in the middle of Hatfield Forest, always a good spot for a sunset and we were treated to a belter this Sunday evening.

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John Webb Windmill Thaxted
2013 - 52 Week Project

36/52 John Webb Windmill, Thaxted

I’ll sometimes go out with a very particular idea of what sort of picture I want to create. I don’t always achieve what I’m looking for, but when it comes off I do feel such pleasure in the final image. This is one such shot, a long exposure black and

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2013 - 52 Week Project

35/52 Doctors Pond Sun Stream

Look through this web site and you’ll see many shots of Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow…not least because I only live about 20 yards from it 😉 I’ve never had any issues photographing this until today. Whilst photographing this I was approached by a woman who demanded to know what

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2013 - 52 Week Project

34/52 The Harvest

One of my more regular places to photograph is Rowney Woods near Debden and Saffron Walden in Essex. This, as you will gather, was not taken in the woods, but rather out on the wheat fields behind the woods. The farmer had just harvested the wheat and had left these

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The End of the Pier - North Pier at Blackpool
2013 - 52 Week Project

32/52 The End of the Pier

I made my annual pilgrimage to the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool with my brother and, as usual, I had a walk around Blackpool after breakfast before the Festival opened at midday. Blackpool has certainly suffered over the last few years with the economy collapsing and it was disappointing to hear

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2013 - 52 Week Project

28/52 St Michaels Clock

Oops. somewhere along the line I missed posting week 28’s photo…not sure how that happened! So, the Bishops Stortford Camera Club had an opportunity to get to the top of the spire of St Michael’s Church in Bishops Stortford. Getting up there meant a long spiral stone staircasr to the

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2013 - 52 Week Project

25/52 An Unexpected Sunset

Sometimes I write completely new pieces for the blog, sometimes I use the same write up as my Flickr account – which you can visit by clicking here or on the Flickr icon at the top right of the page…anyhow, this is what I said on the Flickr version: Driving

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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.