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Cricket on Rickling Green
The Essex Countryside

The Return of Summer

We’ve seen a brief return of Summer here over the last couple of days so we took a walk around Rickling and Rickling Green today. There was a typical English village scene with a cricket match taking place on the Green.  

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A vintage car called Clementine leaving Little Easton Country Fair
Black & White

Au Revoir Clementine

We’ll say goodbye to the Little Easton Country Show with this image of the vintage car called Clementine.

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Rolls Royce Silver Lady
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Rolls Royce at the Little Easton Show

At the Countess of Warwick’s Country Show in Little Easton you’ll find a lot of vintage cars on display, including a fair number of Rolls Royce’s. This is because Great Easton has a Rolls Royce dealer – P & A Wood, indeed, they brought the 1918 Le Rhone Rotary engine

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Detail of the 1918 Le Rhone Rotary engine
The Essex Countryside

Little Easton Country Show

The Countess of Warwick’s Country Show was held in Little Easton over the bank holiday weekend. After the ridiculously early start on the bank holiday Monday I had plenty of time to wander up to see what was going on. The place was absolutely packed with the large car park

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A black and white photograph of a plowed field, clouds and a dead tree in Matching, Essex
Black & White

The Ploughed Field

We took a stroll around Matching at the weekend, a really nice part of Essex close to Harlow. I’m getting more and more interested inblack and white photography, quite the opposite to the HDR (high dynamic range) photography I have concentrated on for the last 6 months or so.

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Muntjac Deer in Rowney Woods
Rowney Woods

More Deer Action in Rowney Woods

In an attempt to see more deer in Rowney Woods, we got up at 5 in the morning today and arrived at the woods just before sun rise. It was certainly worth the effort – we saw 2 muntjac deer and 3 separate families of fallow deer – one family

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Palisades
Great Dunmow

Palisades

Keeping the slightly industrial / metal feel going, today’s photograph is of some palasades in Dunmow. The fact that they were photographed in Dunmow is neither here nor there, a palisade is, after all, a palisade. As if to confirm this, Google could not locate a palisade appreciation site 😉

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Pylon
The Essex Countryside

Pylon

Out and about yesterday the photograph taking was somewhat curtailed by breaking down and having to get the RAC out to get me going again, which they did promptly and successfully. Whilst waiting for the RAC to arrive the heavens opened and it poured down – which made me feel

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Fluffy Chick
Birds

Fluffy Chick

And now for something completely different… Debbie does lots of knitting, she makes large quantities of jumpers, scarves, hats, baby clothes…it’s a real production line. For something a little different she made this recently.

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Cruising on the Canal
London Photo Walk

A Barge on Regents Canal

The occupiers of the barge did seem to be having a great time on the Canal as they rather zig zagged down Regents Canal in London.

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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.