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Snowy Goose
Great Dunmow

Snowy Goose

This Canadian goose demonstrates the excellent insulating properties of a feathery down ;-). Taken on Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow, Essex

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Arrggghhh
Great Dunmow

Arrrgggghhhh

Another shot from the sledging that was going on in Great Dunmow yesterday.

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Catching Snow
2013 - 52 Week Project

3/52 Catching Snow

Doctors Pond was the venue for the local kids (and parents) to gather for some sledging. It was a real pleasure going through the pictures when I got back seeing the intense pleasure all the kids were getting from zooming down the hill. As you will gather from this shot

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A Frozen Doctors Pond
Great Dunmow

A Frozen Doctors Pond

The snow we were all promised didn’t really materialise overnight. What little we had is shown here on a rather frozen Doctors Pond.

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Stars over Dunmow
2012 - 366 Project

361/366 Stars over Great Dunmow

This is something I’m, looking to do a lot more of in the New Year, photography of the night sky. Tonight really wasn’t the ideal time to give this a go – an almost full moon certainly doesn’t help and being in the middle of a small town makes it

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Where Have All The Children Gone?
2012 - 366 Project

347/366 Where Have All The Children Gone?

This is one of the local playgrounds in Dunmow. When I was growing up these would be well populated with teenagers in the early evening, nowadays I guess they are all inside on their Playstations. and to be fair, it was about -3C when I took this photograph – so

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Out The Bathroom Window - Snow
2012 - 366 Project

340/366 Out the Bathroom Window – First Snow of Winter

We were surprised, as I think everyone was, to wake up this morning and find the world was white. No indication had been given the night before on the forecast that this was on the way, still, it meant I won’t be scrabbling around at 11.45pm tonight trying to work

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Moonlit Doctors Pond
2012 - 366 Project

337/366 A Moonlit Doctors Pond

Never having paid much attention to the moon before I started photography, I was surprised to find that it moves all over the place…so I hadn’t realised that I would be able to include it in a shot of Doctors Pond from where I was shooting tonight. I had popped

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Doctors Pond Sunset
2012 - 366 Project

315/366 A Quick Sunset

Having been stuck in all day Saturday, with drizzling rain and flat grey skies it was nice to notice a bit of a sunset going on so I nipped outside and caught this in the 20 minutes the sun was able to break through the cloud cover all day.

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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.