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Street Photography

Street Photography is a particularly popular form of photography these days, especially for owners of the micro four thirds cameras, or so it would seem. It’s not a form of photography that I have had a great deal of success, mainly because I don’t like shoving my lens into an

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Dundee Cake Macro
Macro Photography

Bonus Post ;-)

This isn’t the first image from the above project, but was taken at the same time and is of the same subject.

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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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The Snow Globe
Macro Photography

It’s nearly Christmas…

Work is over for another year as we look forward to Christmas. Office parties have been successfully negotiated without too much embarrassment and we are settling in for a week and a half of over eating and drinking. Maybe we’ll get out and about, maybe we won’t, but we’ll certainly

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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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Left or right
Rowney Woods

Which way to go?

Winter had certainly arrived on Sunday when we arrived at Rowney Woods, we even had the remains of some light snow in parts and the wind was very cold. The woods, as you would expect, are now looking very forlorn. Not long since, this junction was shrouded in green vegetation,

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Starfish
Macro Photography

Starfish

You don’t get many starfish in Dunmow. This one came from Harlow. I was stuck in waiting for the gas man to come round and service my boiler, which he did, an hour late, but that was fine. I was glad of having visited the craft store in Harlow where

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Speckled Wood Butterfly and Daisy
Bugs and Critters

The Speckled Wood Butterfly and the Daisy

I’m full of cold and miserable so let’s warm up a bit. This was taken on a lovely summers day – 30th July to be precise and was taken in Little Bardfield in Essex. I like the fact that the butterfly is sharp and the daisy is out of focus,

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Manuden Mushrooms
Macro Photography

Mushrooms in Manuden

Back to the Essex countryside and some more fungus for you. We visited Manuden and the surrounding area last weekend. As you walk out of Manuden up the hill and back into the country we found these, and many more like them, florishing on a farmers field. Turning back you

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Slug
Bugs and Critters

Slug City

Our back garden, probably as in most other back gardens, is full of slugs and snails. As with many of these types of creature I have always dismissed them as slimy messy things that get under my feet when it’s dark in the garden. Up close, they are quite interesting

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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.