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A photograph of power lines over a field with some pretty big clouds looming
The Essex Countryside

Oh No – More Pylons!

Having always been curious about why so many photographers take such interest, and photograph, pylons of all shapes and sizes (and, of course, having found the pylon appreciation society in this post) I have, of course fallen under their (photographic) spell. It is, of course, the lines – they lead

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Rickling Covered Walk
The Essex Countryside

Rickling Green covered path

So, this is from our walk on Saturday around Rickling and Rickling Green – the contrast between the sky, trees and ploughed field immediately caught my eye.

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Orange Rose - Colour
Black & White

Black and White or Colour?

You choose 😉 I’m really quite undecided. I found these roses at the Foakes Hall in Great Dunmow this afternoon. I love the black and white conversion, but the orange is so vivid (at least I hope it’s orange – colour blind and all that)…

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Cricket on Rickling Green
The Essex Countryside

The Return of Summer

We’ve seen a brief return of Summer here over the last couple of days so we took a walk around Rickling and Rickling Green today. There was a typical English village scene with a cricket match taking place on the Green.  

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A vintage car called Clementine leaving Little Easton Country Fair
Black & White

Au Revoir Clementine

We’ll say goodbye to the Little Easton Country Show with this image of the vintage car called Clementine.

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Rolls Royce Silver Lady
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Rolls Royce at the Little Easton Show

At the Countess of Warwick’s Country Show in Little Easton you’ll find a lot of vintage cars on display, including a fair number of Rolls Royce’s. This is because Great Easton has a Rolls Royce dealer – P & A Wood, indeed, they brought the 1918 Le Rhone Rotary engine

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Detail of the 1918 Le Rhone Rotary engine
The Essex Countryside

Little Easton Country Show

The Countess of Warwick’s Country Show was held in Little Easton over the bank holiday weekend. After the ridiculously early start on the bank holiday Monday I had plenty of time to wander up to see what was going on. The place was absolutely packed with the large car park

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A black and white photograph of a plowed field, clouds and a dead tree in Matching, Essex
Black & White

The Ploughed Field

We took a stroll around Matching at the weekend, a really nice part of Essex close to Harlow. I’m getting more and more interested inblack and white photography, quite the opposite to the HDR (high dynamic range) photography I have concentrated on for the last 6 months or so.

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Muntjac Deer in Rowney Woods
Rowney Woods

More Deer Action in Rowney Woods

In an attempt to see more deer in Rowney Woods, we got up at 5 in the morning today and arrived at the woods just before sun rise. It was certainly worth the effort – we saw 2 muntjac deer and 3 separate families of fallow deer – one family

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Palisades
Great Dunmow

Palisades

Keeping the slightly industrial / metal feel going, today’s photograph is of some palasades in Dunmow. The fact that they were photographed in Dunmow is neither here nor there, a palisade is, after all, a palisade. As if to confirm this, Google could not locate a palisade appreciation site 😉

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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.