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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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Plate Fungus
Rowney Woods

Plate Fungus

I like mushrooms and I like finding fungus of any type to photograph, so much so that we both keep a close eye out for it and are almost as excited by its discovery as we are when a deer makes an appearance…well OK, maybe excited isn’t really the word.

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Terling Ford
The Essex Countryside

The Ford at Turling

Whilst walking to Turling we had seen a few road signs pointing to the ford, but warning that there was no vehicle access across it, fairly unusual as a ford, by its nature is supposed to be a shallow, crossable, part of a water course. Clearly, this one wasn’t, although

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Fallow Deer Stag
Bugs and Critters

Deer, Deer, Dear

Back to Rowney Woods this morning where we saw a whole mass of fallow deer. we started by seeing a loan stag patroling the edge of the woods on his own, he looked quite young.

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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.