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Manuden Mushrooms
Macro Photography

Mushrooms in Manuden

Back to the Essex countryside and some more fungus for you. We visited Manuden and the surrounding area last weekend. As you walk out of Manuden up the hill and back into the country we found these, and many more like them, florishing on a farmers field. Turning back you

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Stick Insect
Macro Photography

Stick Insect

I’ve finally given up football – 12 years in the service of Dunmow Football Club is long enough for anyone and I was beginning to not enjoy the football. So, having been aware that the Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club met on a Tuesday, which previously clashed with football training, I

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Rose Petals
Macro Photography

Rose Petals

I am just dying to pop in a picture of the USS Enterprise into this picture – it looks like one of those strange space aurora’s that Captain James T Kirk and his crew stumble upon in their quest to boldly go…or is that just me?

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Fender Acoustic Guitar
Macro Photography

Fender Acoustic Guitar

I’ve played the guitar, on and off, since I was 14 and now have a 4 guitars and a mandolin. This is my Fender Gemini acoustic – a great guitar that I’ve had for about 15 years now.

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Conker
Macro Photography

Conkers

When I was a boy conkers were a large part of your life during the autumn. In the last 10 or so years the threat of apparent death by conker has seen this great tradition die out, at least in school playing grounds, which is a shame. I knew all

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Dew Drops on a Spiders Web
Macro Photography

Dew on a Spider’s Web

I guess I’m running through all the cliche shots with my macro lens at the moment, but this was pretty tricky. When I got up this morning I saw all the cobwebs clearly from the bedroom window, so knew that it would be a good day to shoot these. I

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M and M
Macro Photography

That M & M moment

There comes a point in every photographers life that they take the M&M’s shot….here’s one of mine.

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Slug
Bugs and Critters

Slug City

Our back garden, probably as in most other back gardens, is full of slugs and snails. As with many of these types of creature I have always dismissed them as slimy messy things that get under my feet when it’s dark in the garden. Up close, they are quite interesting

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Fungus Family
Macro Photography

The Family Fungus

This jolly family of fungus was photographed in Rowney Woods (where else) back in September. I’ve included a picture of the full family tree along with a picture of one of the single families 😉  

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Mark's Right Eye
Macro Photography

Eye Eye, what have we here then?

I know – it’s a bit freaky – I took this photo with my 105mm macro lens on a tripod. When I first loaded this onto my computer (and bear in mind that I have it over 3 times the size you’ll see by clicking the image) I felt a

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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.