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The Axe and Compasses
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The Axe and Compasses, Aythorpe Roding

I have driven past this pub twice a day Monday to Friday for the past 8 years…and still not been inside. I have also wanted to photograph this pub…but not from this angle…for some time. Still, this isn’t too bad an angle.

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Sunrise over Great Dunmow
Doctors Pond

Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow at Sunrise

Wow – what a day – very nearly missed posting today, what with getting home from work to find one of our cats was very poorly and having to take him first to our local vets in Dunmow and then to the emergency vet in Saffron Walden…then rushing back to

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Aythorpe Roding Windmill Sun-up
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Sunrise at Aythorpe Roding Windmill

This windmill has featured a few times in this blog before, but never with a sunrise. I don’t get up for sun rises, although I absolutely should – too lazy by half 😉 Anyhow – I managed to get up at the crack of dawn today and captured this (and

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Aythorpe Roding Farmtrack Dawn
2012 - 366 Project

014/366 Dawn in Aythorpe Roding

When I went to bed last night I told myself that, should I wake up early I had to get up and get out to shoot the sunrise. I’m an idle beggar &, even when I was telling myself this I was thinking “no chance!”. So, I was surprised to

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Berners Roding Moon Rise
2012 - 366 Project

007/366 Berners Roding Moonrise

I finally got out and about today and drove across to Berners Roding and had a look at the semi-derelict church there that I have photographed before. I took a walk across the fields to shoot the sunset which was OK, but nothing spectacular, I turned round to head back

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Bush Road
The Essex Countryside

Bush Road, Great Sampford, Essex

Pictures can sometimes be misleading. You wouldn’t believe that, top right there is a scrap yard and criss-crossing back and forth all over the fields and trees are a number of electricity pylons and a telephone line – it did not look appealing, but with a careful bit of positioning

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Looking out of Rowney Woods
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What a difference a few months can make…

If you’ve been following this blog for a few months then you may recall the Viper’s Bugloss, sea of purple photograph taken looking out of Rowney Woods back in July. That field now looks like this.

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Rowney Woods Sunset
Rowney Woods

Rowney Woods Sunset

We finally made our escape from the confines of the house and Christmas and took a stroll around Rowney Woods this afternoon. Plenty of wildlife on view today including 3 hawks of some variety, a large variety of tits and finches, a number of grey squirrels and 29 deer. Not

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The Starr at Christmas
Great Dunmow

The Starr at Christmas

The Starr Restaurant (where Jamie Oliver apparently once worked) in Great Dunmow always has a fine Christmas Tree outside and this year was no exception. Hope you all have a great Christmas.

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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.