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Doctors Pond Sunrise, Great Dunmow
2012 - 366 Project

274/366 Doctors Pond Sunrise

Now…I know…you see a lot of Doctors Pond in this 366 project…but I very rarely get up in time to see the sun rise…so when I do, I’m going to show the results (and yes…I have done a sun rise of Doctor’s Pond before). So, despite a heavy cold I

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Sunrise over Doctors Pond

Always a favorite location for me, but I don’t get here for sunrise very often…even though we are only about 20 yards away…bone idle!

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The Dunmow Carnival

The Dunmow Carnival chugs past our house every year…this year “chug” was the operative word as this tractor made it’s way up towards Dunmow High Street

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Another Doctors Pond Sunset
2012 - 366 Project

253/366 Another Doctors Pond Sunset

Look through this 366 project and you’ll come across a fair few Doctors Pond shots. In my defence, when you get a sunset like this, why wouldn’t you shoot it?

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A Wild Flower photographed in the Dunmow Cutting
Great Dunmow

Wild Flowers in Dunmow Cutting

If you follow the Flitch Way out of Great Dunmow towards Takeley you will come across the Dunmow Cutting. The Flitch Way was, of course, the main Railway line between Bishops Stortford and Braintree and the Dunmow Cutting is a remnant of that with its path between 2 steep sided

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Lead the way
2012 - 366 Project

230/366 Leading the Way

I spent a very pleasant hour this evening sitting by Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow watching the ducks, geese, moorhen and house martins flitting around the pond. I’ve lived here for about 12 years and can’t remeber a time when we have had so many Canadian Geese living around the

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Stortford Road / Market Place, Great Dunmow, Essex
2012 - 366 Project

228/366 Stortford Road / Market Place, Great Dunmow, Essex

Debbie gave me a colour challenge of purple this evening, as I was struggling to come up with something to photograph. This was fine, except, of course, I’m colour blind! Not to worry – it got me out of the house and I took this photo of Dunmow High Street

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New Pond
2012 - 366 Project

224/366 New Pond

Well, it’s new to me ;-). Followers of my 365 project will have seen a number of shots of Doctor’s Pond over the last 8 months or so. I took a stroll up Beaumont Hill heading out of Dunmow and saw a public footpath sign I hadn’t seen before, followed

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Little Brewers
2012 - 366 Project

223/366 Little Brewers, Great Dunmow

Right across the road from us is this lovely cottage with a fabulous country cottage garden. Sadly, I have not done it justice here, but you get the idea 😉  

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Reflected Landings

I spent 20 minutes sitting on a bench on Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow one Saturday evening. Just enjoying the warm summer peace that you get here…sometimes. I spotted the ducks flying in a caught this shot of them as they came into land on the pond.

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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.