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2013 - 52 Week Project

15/52 Step into Spring

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

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Into Rowney Woods
Landscape

Into Rowney Woods

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

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Can't See The Wood for the Trees
2012 - 366 Project

365/366 You can’t see the wood for the trees

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

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A Country Garden Pond

If you walk through Rowney Woods in Essex and you take the right path you will come across this lovely farmhouse with a fabulous pond.

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Hogweed
2012 - 366 Project

204/366 Hogweed

Yesterday’s post is late, or is today’s post early…I forget. This is Sunday’s post, it’s late being added to the blog because it was really late last night and I couldn’t remeber what the damn plant was called and I needed to get to bed…so there you go 😉 So,

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Walking into Rowney Woods

This is right at the entrance to Rowney Woods proper before you come to the first Y junction when you have to make a decision. After a few visits where we haven’t seen any (mammal) wildlife in the woods we saw a large hare and a muntjac deer this week.

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Renewal

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you’ll know that we do enjoy Rowney Woods up in Wimbish. Today was our first visit for a few weeks, mainly due to the dreadful weather, but one thing has certianly come out of all the rain we have had

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Oil Seed Rape at Rowney Woods
2012 - 366 Project

126/366 Oil Seed Rape at Rowney Woods

The weather slightly improved today – at least it was dry – and we took a walk around Rowney Woods. One thing all the rain we have been having has done is encourage a huge burst of growth in all the plant life. It was only a few weeks ago

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Look out!

On the edge of Rowney Woods is this structure which, I assume, is for pheasant shooters.

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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.