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I had no idea what I was going to photograph tonight. I took some shots of the cat, some shots of a dirty frying pan, the stars and the moon. Nothing was working so I decided to do the washing up and see if I could come up with anything
Finding subjects to photograph can be as easy as looking in the bin! This was some of the discarded parts of the red peppers we had in our stir fry tonight – close up the seeds have a great texture.
Sunday dinner – Roast Chicken with all the trimmings…including carrots.
Spotted this fella in Rowney Woods – dragonflies may be bigger than damselflies, and you would have thought they would be easier to photograph – you have to be lucky to get one resting like this – normally they are permanently in motion patrolling their area, damselflies must get tired
Macro photography is always very enjoyable, not least because you find out what everyday objects actually look like. Today, peppercorns – I had no idea they had this interesting texture.
Quiet day today – this is a pad of paper I have on my desk that is formed into a spiral
My mate Mat is the grasshopper king so I was delighted to find this fella in the undergrowth at Dunmow cutting this afternoon He very obligingly popped onto the grass stalk for me to photograph him 😉
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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