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Golden silhouette
The Essex Countryside

Silhouettes at sunset

A word I can very rarely spell… So after the sunset mentioned below I got some great silhouettes of some of the trees on the walk back to the car…We will get to the actual sunset bit eventually!

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Tied Up
The Essex Countryside

Mooring

Moving on from Oxford, Sunday saw us enjoy yet more unseasonally hot weather. I spent most of it lounging around the house, enjoying the fact that I really didn’t have to do anything but, as usual, the photography bug bit late afternoon and I went in search of a sunset

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Funky Fungus in Rowney Woods
Macro Photography

Funky Fungi in Rowney Woods

Back to the woods, and back to the fungi. I like this picture of the fungi because it’s not perfect in two ways, the depth of field is a little too narrow and the state of the fungi leaves a lot to be desired! Have you ever found a perfect

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Common Frog
Animals

Common Frog – Rana temporaria – Rowney Woods

Back to Rowney Woods between Thaxted and Saffron Walden in Essex. These woods abound with wildlife and we saw something on Sunday that we haven’t seen before here – a frog: I mucked up taking this photograph, I’d forgotten to change my f-stop and was at f14 so I had

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Aythorpe Windmill at Sunset
HDR

Sunset at Aythorpe Roding Windmill

Are you on Google+ yet? If you are you can see more of my ramblings and pictures at gplus.to/markseton Photography teachers always tell you that there are 2 times in the day that have the best light for photography – sunrise and sunset. I’ve made many excuses for not being

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Close to the Sun...flower
Macro Photography

Close to the Sun…Flower

I started to follow a photographer (one of many) on Google+ called Colby Brown and he made a fantastic image of a field of sunflowers you can see here. I’d seen, unexpectedly, some sunflowers peaking out from a hedge on my way home from work, so I thought I’d give

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Leez Lodge Lakes
HDR

Leez Lodge Lakes

Back to Leez Lodge Lakes and an HDR image of the lakes. I’ve been trying to add this image (and indeed, some other images from this set) for a week or two and the web site won’t have it! So I am falling back on the tusty Flickr site to

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Red Capped Fungus
The Essex Countryside

Fungi in Danbury Country Park

Autumn usually sees a large increase in the Fungi population, I know nothing about fungi apart from that bit about not eating them unless they’re straight out of the supermarket. This one’s red cap caught my eye as we walked through Danbury country park.

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Danbury View
The Essex Countryside

A view of Essex from Danbury

Despite the poor weather forecast, Sunday started bright and sunny so we decided to visit Danbury, just the other side of Chelmsford. There are not many high spots in Essex but Danbury is situated on a hill 367 feet (112 m) above sea level, so I hoped for some views…and we

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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.