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Stumped
HDR

Stumped!

You’ll often find me scrabbling about dry stream beds on a Saturday. This one wasn’t quite as dry as it looked. I stepped into the middle of it and started sinking at a rapid rate! Still, in the middle of the “dry” stream was this old stump: Does this win

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Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow
Doctors Pond

Cat causes an early rise

Saturday night I joked with my wife that I really needed to be up at the crack of dawn to catch the sun rise, especially in view of the good weather we’re having, we agreed, there was no chance I’d get up at 5.00am to catch it…clearly the cat had

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Dandelion Seed head
Macro Photography

Dandelion Heads

Along with yesterdays bug photographs, I also photographed some dandelion heads. A bit cliched now, but for a good reason – they make good pictures. So here are two of mine

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Drone Fly
Bugs and Critters

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

It was a lovely sunny afternoon today so I went off to one of my favourite spots Damselfly spotting with my new macro lens over in Little Bardfield. I found a small number of damselflys but also found lots of other bugs to photograph including this rather unpleasant looking drone

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Wasp on a Leaf
Bugs and Critters

W.A.S.P.

I’m not a fan of wasps, nasty stingy things that get in your beer, but get a macro lens onto them and maybe they become things of beauty. I love the colours on its head, I’ve never noticed reds on a wasp before, mind you, I’ve never been this close

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John Webb's Windmill Thaxted Sunset
The Essex Countryside

John Webb’s Windmill, Thaxted

It looked like it would be a good sunset this evening so I jumped in the car and headed for Thaxted. I had no real idea what I was going to photograph, but knew that there was always the church or the windmill to fall back on. As I approached

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Chalkney Woods
The Essex Countryside

A Lucky Accident in Chalkney Woods

We visited Chalkney Woods last weekend in the Colne Valley. I took the following picture without looking at the settings on my camera at all, it was in aperture priority mode so the picture was always going to be, at least viewable, but the shutter speed calculated was 3 seconds.

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St Andrews and All Saints Willingale BandW
Black & White

St Andrews Church, Willingale

Ordinarily I’d start a series of photographs of a church with a picture from the outside, but I couldn’t get the images I had to look as I wanted to yesterday. The main problem was the dreary sky – it was very grey! After some work today I think this

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St Andrews Willingale down The Aisle
Churches

The Church of St Andrew and All Saints Willingale Spain

At the weekend I traveled to the southernmost  point in the Dunmow Hundred (a hundred was a subdivision of a county or shire listed in the Doomsday Book details of the Dunmow Hundred can be found here). Willingale has the unusual distinction of having two churches built next door to

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Bob's Gravestone
Churches

An Homage

“He spent fifteen years getting loaded Fifteen years ’till his liver exploded Now what’s Bob gonna do now that he can’t drink?” NOFX – Bob

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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.