
18/52 Sun over Rowney Woods
The sun was just breaking through as we approached Rowney Woods giving us those great sun beams…big sky as well!
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The sun was just breaking through as we approached Rowney Woods giving us those great sun beams…big sky as well!

We were talked into joing English Heritage when we were last in Nothumberland, and I have to say, we worried whether we would get our monies worth. Well, I’ve been to Audley End about 4 times this year so far and I always find something new to look at. It

Finally, wild spring flowers have started appearing all over the place. These are Anemone nemorosa, or, if you prefer, wood anemone in West Wood, just outside Thaxted in Essex.

Spring finally arrived yesterday and we took a walk around Rowney Woods. Amazingly we saw 3 different types of butterfly – they will have been struggling to find any flowers, with the exception of a few straggly primroses there really wasn’t much for them to go at. I forced myself

This was my first go at a “Little Planet”. Just to complicate matters I did an HDR version of it, so 55 shots were taken to make this image…probably a little excessive! It was good fun to make and I do like the effect…and, of course, it’s Doctors Pond, at

I’ve been keen to shoot the stars and I had some limited success with this but the moon coming up over the lake at Hatfield Forest was quite beautiful. It’s amazingly quiet in the forest at this time of night…except for the roar of the jet engines and smell of
I knew full well that I shouldn’t just march over the farmers field, my main defense it that it’s the middle of winter and nothing is growing or has been planted yet…also, I wanted the picture 😉 For those of you not in the know, this is the John Webb
This post box is just down the road from where I live on North Street in Great Dunmow, Essex.

It’s a cold one…taken just outside the Gardens of Easton Lodge looking back towards Little Easton lodge and the Lakes.
I’ve just got myself a 2x tele-converter and this was one of the first shots I took with it through a very dirty kitchen window and hand held. Very pleased with the tele-converter – much better than spending hundreds on a new lens 😉
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