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Self Love
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315-365v4 Self Love

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent Continuing playing with the scanner and (hopefully) moving beyond the photocopying your arse on the office photocopier stage! I quite enjoyed exploring the “art” of the selfie on the scanner. I don’t do

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Socket Serpent
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308-365v4 Socket Serpent

I bought a cheap socket set for a very specific purpose, received it and realised it was completely the wrong tool for the job! It’s been sat next to me for months and I finally decided to photograph it yesterday and thought I’d try creating a creepy animal thing out

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Into The Abyss Black and White Unite XXV
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296-365v4 Into The Abyss Black and White Unite XXV.

After yesterday’s consideration of the amount of ink it would take to print a dark version of one of these I thought “stuff it, to hell with the ink”! And made the dark background you see here. It reminded Debbie of a Madonna video, I’m not sure if that is

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Sunshine Through a Rainy Window
Abstract

290-365v4 Sunshine Through a Rainy Window

A bit of abstraction on a typical autumnal British day. One moment it’s lovely sunshine (if a bit breezy) and the next it’s like the house is going through a car wash its raining so hard! Now into the evening and I realised it was still pouring and I had

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Black and White Unite XX! Incoming Outgoing
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279-365v4 Black and White Unite XXI Incoming Outgoing

Very much an extension/continuation of the pencil shot a couple of days ago. Having looked back at that shot I think it was a mistake making that a pure black and white shot. This time I have left the little bit of colour the wood gives you and i think

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Flaming Sunflower
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228-365v4 Flaming Sunflower

The sunflower in the garden was getting jealous of all the attention the Echinacea was getting so has started to bloom. We have 2 growing in the garden this is the smallest of the 2 and was grown from a kit. The larger second Sunflower is just starting to bloom

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A Natural Jackson Pollock
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224-365v4 A Natural Jackson Pollock

Yesterday’s image was of some grasses (you can see then in the image below) that Debbie had pulled up from the garden and thrown away. This shot is of some of the flowers and weeds she had extracted and dead headed and thrown into the same spot. Getting in close

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm currently the Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club (and am a past Chairman) and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions.