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Moving on from Oxford, Sunday saw us enjoy yet more unseasonally hot weather. I spent most of it lounging around the house, enjoying the fact that I really didn’t have to do anything but, as usual, the photography bug bit late afternoon and I went in search of a sunset
Back to the woods, and back to the fungi. I like this picture of the fungi because it’s not perfect in two ways, the depth of field is a little too narrow and the state of the fungi leaves a lot to be desired! Have you ever found a perfect
Back to Rowney Woods between Thaxted and Saffron Walden in Essex. These woods abound with wildlife and we saw something on Sunday that we haven’t seen before here – a frog: I mucked up taking this photograph, I’d forgotten to change my f-stop and was at f14 so I had
Are you on Google+ yet? If you are you can see more of my ramblings and pictures at gplus.to/markseton Photography teachers always tell you that there are 2 times in the day that have the best light for photography – sunrise and sunset. I’ve made many excuses for not being
The original home of the Flitch Trials, Little Dunmow is located about 4 miles from Great Dunmow and, as the name implies is substantially smaller. Today’s picture was taken on Saturday evening as the sun set. The picture was taken, looking out from the Little Dunmow Priory Church.
The A120 connects Great Dunmow with Bishop’s Stortford and the M11 (and thus London) in one direction and Braintree and Colchester in the other. It’s the most important road in the immediate area and was recently turned into a dual carriageway and bypassed around Dunmow. Walking down the Flitch Way
Today was Dunmow Carnival day and the town was awash with bunting. The procession was lengthened quite considerably this year and there was certainly less numbers out on the streets outside our house this year – we assume because more people could watch it from the comfort of their own
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”
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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