Yin meets yang as the stones on the beach are soaked by the onrushing tide.

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On a side street halfway back to the railway station I spotted this three story building with intricate artwork from top to bottom.

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The Lego Seven Dwarves look almost demonic in the harsh light around Downtown Disney.

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The Nether North Grain in the Peak District has this distinctive waterfall on the Snake Pass road, great for long exposures. This was 30secs at f/18 with an ND8 and ND16 filter attached.

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These mushroom are growing on the trunk of one of the giant trees in the forest, along with the moss.

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The West Pier at Brighton is a Grade I listed building - what is left of it. Built in 1866 the pier closed in 1975 and has been badly damaged by fire and the weather since. This is a 25sec exposure with two ND16, one ND8 and a polarizing filter stacked to give the dreamy water. This is a re-edit for the Camera Club following comments by a judge, a little bit of cropping, cloning out a pole at the bottom and adding a light vignette.

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Early on during the 2012 display at Campbell Park by Keith Emmet.

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Green fireworks light up the sky above the beacon in Campbell Park.

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The waves roll in at high tide on Brighton Beach. 30kt winds are fanning the sea and creating a lot of spray, something I hadn't really thought about as I made the trip!

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Strolling around Walton Lake there was lots of blossom evident, and I tried some depth-of-field experiments and some different methods of monochrome on this - before I got wet anyway as the showers came over!

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A short trip around Batford Springs Nature Reserve today, trying to play with the ND filters - but success was somewhat limited. This is the sluice.

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Jemma flicks her head round, took me about 5 attempts to get this one right. Right-ish anyway, annoyed the hair is out of the top of the shot.

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Behind shot is the waterfall at Nether North Grain, and across the winding road is a steep drop into a ravine near the top of the Peak District.

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At the foot of Howden Dam is this large warning sign. I hadn't realised that it was drinking water - another sign said that - but the fine for committing nuisance was sufficiently high that I didn't dare go for a swim. That and the temperature of 2C.

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The waves beat onto the wall, creating plumes of spray.

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Instruments on board, QNH checked (from me - I'd left work almost 2hrs previous but close enough) time to get some hot air into that envelope!

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Incredible scenes - the blind athlete runs towards his guide (in the high viz vest) who claps and then moves out of the way. The Chinese athlete is making his leap into the sand, good enough for silver in the end.

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Bright dots in the centre, as other shoots sparkle everywhere across the night sky.

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The water on the pebble beach at Brighton is whipped into frothy madness.

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Megan half-lit with a side-on flash. First experiments with off-camera flash.

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One of the line of large power stations that spans the country up north near Gamston, not the best shots as through a window and only with the 70mm lens - but I want to go back and try more!

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Neat arrangement of tarmac stands, they weren't there the last time I visited!

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Unusual artwork on the seafront at Brighton. The hole in the middle makes sense, but the two cracks top and bottom? Who knows.

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High atop the beach are lots of canoes stored for people wanting to use them. Not today.

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Up another flight of stairs and a chance to look down into the cauldron. It's certainly an impressive sight!

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The centre:MK balloon launches from Campbell Park into the evening sky.

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The actual shot I intended - this time properly in focus - of the rowing boat on Ladybower Reservoir.

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The wind is whipping the sea up a bit more than I'd planned today when I made this trip, but still looked good!

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Harking back to the good old days the whole park is littered with authentic red telephone boxes, and the puddle made a nice reflection in a brief spell of no rain!

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The ruins of the West Pier at Brighton, with the high tide roaring around on a windy day.

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The still water suddenly cascades down the main weir on the River Lea at Batford Springs.

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This is the scene that greeted me on arrival at the beach in Brighton. Big waves, lots of spray!

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Well it might have been once, but now it's just a few poles on the beach - and getting to the main part of the pier is challenging, let alone climbing it!

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Playing with the 50mm lens attached to a 20mm extension tube, a pile of change on the bench looks quite good close up. The scratches on the 20p piece are almost invisible to the naked eye, but the detail showing here surprised me.

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Looking up at the Brighton Wheel.

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It's the peak of the Draconid meteor shower tonight and I set the camera up in the back garden to try and catch some. Got stymied by cloud cover for the first part of the evening, then by the lens fogging up as the night wore on but in the 20mins of good shots I got I caught one meteor at the bottom of the shot. Result!

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A new attraction in Brighton (for me at least) is this large ferris wheel. Heading back uphill towards the railway station I got this shot back towards the sea with the buildings framing the wheel on the seafront.

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The top of the envelope is visible, along with the centre:MK logo becoming more visible. Nice blue skies this evening.

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The sky looks great behind this farm tool, spotted in a field after we'd chased hot air balloons most of the way to Grafham Water!

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The giant Park Live TV and stage sits right in the middle of the River Lea, and is visible from both sides of the River in the parklands.

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A black and white view of the Velodrome roof.

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A Golden Weaver sitting by his creation in the trees of the aviary.

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Stepping back to the road to pursue balloons this old Austin drove serenely past me, the couple enjoying an evening drive in the setting sun.

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This little bird spent a lot of time dodging the waves on the shores of Cocoa Beach.

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An aircraft lifts from 27R in the distance on departure into the golden skies.

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Close-up of the intricate architecture around the roof of the bandstand on the seafront at Brighton.

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Built in South Korea in 2011 (the shipyard featured on the BBC F1 buildup recently) this is a giant container ship weighing in at 400,000 tonnes. The ship arrived in Felixstowe from Singapore, and departed the next day to Zeebrugge, a quick turnaround for so many containers.

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A gorilla sits high up in the reserve area.

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Behind the flagged walls are the stairways up to the higher sections - colours change around the stadium according to which blocks you are in.

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Five miles off the coast of Clacton is this windfarm, this is not all of the turbines either!

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