
22/52 Into The Wide Blue Yonder
A female mallard takes off from the Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow and heads off into the wide blue yonder… I probably spend more time hanging around Doctors Pond than is healthy!
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A female mallard takes off from the Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow and heads off into the wide blue yonder… I probably spend more time hanging around Doctors Pond than is healthy!
We visit Rowney Woods regularly and I’ve posted a few pictures from our visits on this blog. I take a photograph of this scene most times I visit, and invariably I take an HDR (high dynamic range) picture. Today I took a standard shot and really liked it, so I

I’m always a sucker for clouds like this 😉 A black and white HDR photograph from Saturday, just before the big thaw.

Sunset on a frozen Hatfield Forest lake. The ducks seemed quite happy sitting on the ice – there was a thawed our area of water to the right, but it was pretty crowded and had a couple of swans lording it over the ducks.

We had a day off from the rain so visited Rowney Woods for a stroll. I thought I’d try something different today. Normally when I look at the back of the camera and see a picture I like Iget it home and it’s rubbish. Today I looked at this shot

We had elections for the new police and crime commissioners today and on my way to voting I took this shot. I was particularly taken with the fact that this shot could have easily been taken anytime in the last 40 years and so thought it was a good candidate

Sunday started reasonably early for me as I had to complete my second assignment for the marketing diploma I’m currently taking. I wanted to spend the whole day at it so made sure I got out early to capture the days photograph. It was a glorious, warm, autumn morning with

Now…I know…you see a lot of Doctors Pond in this 366 project…but I very rarely get up in time to see the sun rise…so when I do, I’m going to show the results (and yes…I have done a sun rise of Doctor’s Pond before). So, despite a heavy cold I

Today was Dunmow Carnival day that finished, as usual, with a firework display. Because I don’t have enough pictures of Doctors Pond 😉 I took up residence with the ducks and bats and enjoyed the show from a distance.

Super hot day today had me out and about keeping cool in the air conditioned car 😉 I had gone out to get some macros of butterflys and the like but they weren’t out and about in any numbers and I ended up in Saffron Walden. I’ve lived just 20
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