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I took a quick walk over the Recreation Ground in Dunmow this evening…I took a rather daft chance and went in t-shirt, shorts and camera…no coat, no bag for camera. Whilst I was only ever 15 minutes away from home it suddenly dawned on me that I may struggle to
So, half of Britain is flooding at the moment as we go through the wettest Summer for a long time. As I drove back from work we had the most torrential downpour that quickly caused flash floods on the road…but as soon as we were getting drenched, we were out
Since I bought my new Nikon D800 the weather has been awful…to be fair, no surprise for this year. So when the sun was making a rare appearance this lunchtime I made a quick dash out with my other new purchase…the Nikon 14 – 24mm f2.8 lens.This is a wide
Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club Summer Program tonight….which meant I showed off the new D800 and lenses to anyone who cared to listen 😉 We met at Hatfield Forest in light showers and walked the 800 metres to the main lake to be greeted with a downpour. Fortunately, being in a
I’m at the half way point of my 366 journey today and I, rather fortunately, had the London Photowalk to help get a nice picture for the occasion. We visited Richmond Park today and I took this picture from Richmond Hill overlooking the River Thames.
It’s been extremely hot and humid here in Dunmow today, but at least the sun came out and we got away from the unremitting grey skies we’ve had for the last few days. So, come the evening and what better than to take a stroll along the River Chelmer in
Tuesday night means Bishops Stortford Camera Club night and the excellent summer program continued today. We congregated on the edge of the town centre and took a walk along the River Stort. It was overcast and muggy, but at least it was dry, so no sunsets tonight. Instead here’s a
We visited a new part of Essex today and headed north of Saffron Walden to Little Waldon. The further north you get in Essex, the better defined the countryside is and you get some nice rolling hills to look at. The weather played fair today as well with some lovely
The Summer Solstice, aka the longest day, is probably not the right day to decide “tonight’s the night for light painting”. Sadly, I had seen, in my minds eye, the picture I wanted to make and the fact that I was only going to get an hour or so of
Tuesday night is camera club night and so it was that I travelled out to the Red Lion at Finchingfield where we had the annual summer dinner, and very pleasant it was too. I suspect I missed quite a nice sunset but thought it polite not to up sticks and
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