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Chicken salad sandwich twice please
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Chicken Salad Sandwich Twice Please

I was talking to my wife about what I had for my lunch today – my favourite Marks and Spencer sandwich – the Pastrami on Rye – its lovely, rammed full of salt, but lovely! It reminded me of some pictures I’d taken of a sandwich I built for myself

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Storm Clouds over Finchingfield
HDR

Sun and Showers at Finchingfield

On Sunday I pottered over to Finchingfield to have a look at the Church there and see if there were any opportunities to get some interesting pictures of the village itself. As you can see, showers were never far away… I was quite lucky with the weather, it meant Finchingfield

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Dunmow from Doctors Pond
Doctors Pond

Doctors Pond – Dunmow

Pictures you see of Doctors Pond are usually taken from the North Street end of the pond looking towards Star Lane and the tennis courts, and that’s fair enough it’s an obviously attractive picture. This picture, on the other hand, is taken from the Rosemary Lane side looking towards Dunmow

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Chelmsford Cathedral
Churches

Chelmsford Cathedral

I was working in Chelmsford the other week and took the opportunity to pop across to the Cathedral to create some HDR pictures of it. This was originally a church built arond 800 years ago. It became a Cathdral in 1914 and, as with many Essex churches, has a section

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Shoe Last
Dereliction

A Shoe Last in the Dunmow Lock-Up

Continuing the short series of images taken from the Dunmow Lock-Up this is an old shoe last: Each shoe last is designed for a particular heel height, toe shape, and type of footwear. Many styles of shoes can be made on the same shoe last , but the toe shape

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Broxted Church Winter
Churches

Broxted Church

Broxted Church was the local church of journalist John McCarthy. He, along with Terry Waite and Brian Keenan, was taken hostage in Beirut on 17th April 1986 and held for more than 5 years, being released on 8th August 1991. The Church has two specially commissioned stained glass windows –

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Stephens Fountain Ink with border
Dereliction

Ink in the Dunmow Lock Up

It’s always quite interesting what you find in old “abandoned” buildings. This is probably my favourite shot from the series I took in the old Dunmow lock-up. For those of you who care about such things this is an HDR shot taken from a bracket of 3 shots.

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The Gaol Back Door Lock
Dereliction

The Dunmow Lock Up

Great Dunmow has a fabulous little old, disused jail or lock-up. The plaque on the wall sums up some of its history: “This small single cell prison ceased its function in 1843 when the Dunmow police station opened. During the 1890’s this disused Lock-up was adapted to be a Soup

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Brightlingsea Beach Huts
The Essex Countryside

Brightlingsea Beach Huts

Living in Great Dunmow we are about an hours drive away from the nearest coast line. We popped over to Mersea Island earlier this year…it was a particularly grey, cold and wet day but I was able to capture this picture of the Brightlingsea Beach Huts from across the water.

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Breaking Out
Dereliction

The Old Farm Shop

Between Great Dunmow and Little Easton as you drive out towards Thaxted you may have noticed a couple of derelict buildings – just next to the by pass from Tesco’s through the Woodlands Park development. I had a little rummage around these a few weeks ago and picked up some

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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.