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Close to the Sun...flower
Macro Photography

Close to the Sun…Flower

I started to follow a photographer (one of many) on Google+ called Colby Brown and he made a fantastic image of a field of sunflowers you can see here. I’d seen, unexpectedly, some sunflowers peaking out from a hedge on my way home from work, so I thought I’d give

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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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Hanging Around
Bugs and Critters

Hanging Around

We’ve not had a song title/reference for a while so see if you can get this one. We visited West Wood just outside Thaxted at the weekend (actually on our way back to Dunmow from Rowney Wood) and found this chap hanging around in a most peculiar position!

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Your roots are showing
HDR

Your roots are showing…

The Leez Priory, an old tudor building, is used for weddings, it looks a lovely venue, and indeed there was a wedding on when I was in the area, a shame because I would have liked to have photographed the buildings. Near the Priory is a lake which was looking

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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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A photograph of power lines over a field with some pretty big clouds looming
The Essex Countryside

Oh No – More Pylons!

Having always been curious about why so many photographers take such interest, and photograph, pylons of all shapes and sizes (and, of course, having found the pylon appreciation society in this post) I have, of course fallen under their (photographic) spell. It is, of course, the lines – they lead

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The Sun and Clouds
The Essex Countryside

The Sun and Clouds

This kind of reminds me of the start of Doctor Who – not so much the new series, but the old series when Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker played the Doctor. That swirling vortex with the renowned theme tune thundering behind it…or am I just a bit odd?

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Rickling Covered Walk
The Essex Countryside

Rickling Green covered path

So, this is from our walk on Saturday around Rickling and Rickling Green – the contrast between the sky, trees and ploughed field immediately caught my eye.

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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.