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Sliced Red Pepper and Seeds Macro photograph
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Sliced Red Pepper

Finding subjects to photograph can be as easy as looking in the bin! This was some of  the discarded parts of the red peppers we had in our stir fry tonight – close up the seeds have a great texture.

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Peppercorns
2012 - 366 Project

243/366 Peppercorns

Macro photography is always very enjoyable, not least because you find out what everyday objects actually look like. Today, peppercorns – I had no idea they had this interesting texture.

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Spirapad
2012 - 366 Project

242/366 Spirapad

Quiet day today – this is a pad of paper I have on my desk that is formed into a spiral

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Grasshopper
2012 - 366 Project

240/366 Grasshopper

My mate Mat is the grasshopper king so I was delighted to find this fella in the undergrowth at Dunmow cutting this afternoon He very obligingly popped onto the grass stalk for me to photograph him 😉

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Windswept
2012 - 366 Project

227/366 Windswept

Tuesday night is Camera Club night and so it was we congregated in Bishops Stortford for a photowalk. Last time we tried this the heavens opened and we had to retire to the pub. This time the weather was very pleasant and, following a stroll down the River Stort we

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Sparking Up
2012 - 366 Project

226/366 Sparking Up

The wife and I gave up smoking 8½ years ago but strangely still have various bits of smoking paraphernalia dotted around the house, including this lighter: Please do click the image to get a bigger version so you can see all the sparking goodness!

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Thistle
2012 - 366 Project

225/366 Thistle

We took one of our regular walks through Rowney Woods today and I spotted this (to me) slightly unusual thistle. It was the spider/eyelash effect under the purple flower that caught my eye…Turns out this is not a thistle but Black Knapweed. Having some fun in Photoshop turned this into

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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.