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Flickr’s 21 Day Birthday Photo Challenge - 21
2025 - 365 Project

43-365v5 – 21

I continue with my images in response to Flickr’s 21st birthday today with their set subject of “21”. All these images were taken in the house and around Newcastleton today, I had many more, but these were my favourites/fitted the panel best. The centre image is a sparkler that I

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Dots with a face and body
2025 - 365 Project

42-365v5 Dots

Flickr are 21 years old (yesterday actually) and they are doing 21 days of themed images. Today’s theme is “dots”. I’ve done lots of this type of image, especially during the Black and White Unite series of shots when I used steel ball bearings on patterned paper to create images.

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Abstract Kitchen 2
2025 - 365 Project

41-365v5 Abstract Kitchen 2

A few weeks ago I did Abstract Kitchen (1), well, here is Abstract Kitchen 2. It’s a wider shot and includes the oven door and the fridge door.

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Flowers and Stone
2025 - 365 Project

40-365v2 – Stone and Flower

Today’s photograph is of some artificial flowers in a black vase. The background was then made up of 3 images I have of various textures to make what looks like a stone wall in the background. I go to all these lengths because I wasn’t entirely convinced by the original

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Abstract Squeak
2025 - 365 Project

39-365v5 – Abstract Squeak

I always enjoy a bit of abstraction and it is always a useful fall back for the 365 project when time is short and you need a shot. You can see a few of my abstract photographs by clicking here. This is an item found on many desks around the

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Holm Hardware
2025 - 365 Project

38-365v5 – Out of Business

Nowhere is safe from the empty shops of the internet boom, especially small villages like Newcastleton. The local hardware shop closed a little over a year ago (before we moved here) which is a shame as the village only has a small handful of shops available. I shouldn’t complain really

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Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) of a cold and foggy walk
2025 - 365 Project

37-365v5 – A Misty Morning Walk

Something I’ve never had a lot of success with before – Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) from the early morning Jess walk. It was a cold and foggy morning and there was some lovely light around which I photographed but, unusually, it was this ICM shot that I really liked. This

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Harden Burn Waterfall 1
2025 - 365 Project

36/365v5 – Waterfalls

Our new house has a burn (Scottish for stream) running through it and we own the part of it that flows through our garden. Tracing the burn on our Ordinance Survey (OS) map I could see that there was a waterfall marked further upstream so I had an explore with

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United Airlines Fly Past in Black & White
2025 - 365 Project

35-365v5 – Fly Past

We don’t often get planes overhead here (very different from where we used to live when we were only 8 miles from Stansted Airport). This United Airlines plane caught my eye as it was heading straight in front of the rising moon. I rushed to get my camera to catch

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A Parker Pen
2025 - 365 Project

34-365v5 – Rooting Around

Today has been a day of rummaging through boxes to find my old camera strap. The strap continues to be missing but I have found lots of other old bits and pieces in my search for it including my old LED lights that I used in my last 365 project

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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.