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Starfish
Macro Photography

Starfish

You don’t get many starfish in Dunmow. This one came from Harlow. I was stuck in waiting for the gas man to come round and service my boiler, which he did, an hour late, but that was fine. I was glad of having visited the craft store in Harlow where

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Decay
Macro Photography

Slow Decay

From the same bunch of flowers as yesterday’s chrysanthemum comes this rose. A fairly clear difference, and yet, to me anyway, a more interesting picture. It reminds me of dried tobacco leaves.

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Chrysanthemum
Macro Photography

Chrysanthemum

Here’s a macro of some chrysanthemum’s we had about the house this weekend – we’d got these, amongst various other flowers last weekend so they had lasted pretty well.

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Marbles
Macro Photography

Marbles…he’s lost his…

I was wondering what to photograph today and thought it might be fun to shoot some marbles with my macro lens. So out I popped to the local shop and came back with a small bag of marbles. They’re not as good as the ones I remember as a child…but

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Bearded Dragon
Bugs and Critters

The Bearded Dragon

Back to the Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club… I don’t recall ever having seen a bearded dragon in real life before but, in real life, they are not as spooky as they sound, quite the contrary.

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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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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.