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!
September 30, 2012 No Comments
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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!
I decided, probably rather rashly, to take a City and Guilds Level 2 Photography course. Today was the induction course which was something of a shambles. I turned up at 7.00 to discover that it didn’t start until 7.30 (I was not alone!) and then only 4 of us turned
Today was Dunmow Carnival day that finished, as usual, with a firework display. Because I don’t have enough pictures of Doctors Pond 😉 I took up residence with the ducks and bats and enjoyed the show from a distance.
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
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?
Great Dunmow used to have a railway line running through it that started in Bishop’s Stortford and finished, 45 minutes later in Braintree (and vice versa). The passenger service ended in 1952 with goods traffic continuing to use the line until its close in 1969. Following the demise of the
Walking through Rowney Woods today we were passed by these two gentlemen on their tandem bike. They got a fair old shift on as they completed the circuit around Rowney Woods very quickly.
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
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
We took a walk around Ingatestone this afternoon and came across this very old (originally at least) church. Dating back to the 12th century. I can’t tell you a great deal more about it…other than to say, there is definitely a wasp problem here!
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