A WINDOW OF LIGHT...

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I got off the tube at Snaresbrook Station the other day so that I could walk the length of the High Street. As I passed The Hollies the sun was behind the block and light was flooding the rooms of the flats. From the street the block was almost in silhouette and you could see how the light was shining through. .

CONKER SEASON

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Driving through Snaresbrook last evening I saw this Horse Chestnut tree. There is such an amazing amount of 'fruit' on the bough that it almost reaches the grass. Looks like it is going to be a bumper season for conker players. 

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NIGHT LIGHTS.

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Are they water fountains bathed in light or really clever street lighting? They are of course the new street lighting under the railway bridge at Snaresbrook end of Wanstead High Street. Full marks to Redbridge for imaginative and decorative use of light.

SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT

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I have been trying for some time to get a good view of the Court across the pond but in daylight but it just doesn't seem to work. However passing by the pond at dusk I was greeted by this view and it just seemed to bring the building to life

ON GOLDEN POND..

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Another picture I took of Snaresbrook Pond at the end of the day.  The rippling effect with the sun shining across the lake has a really lovely warm glow. A very apt picture I thought for Christmas Eve.

   

SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT

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I was at Snaresbrook Pond photographing as the sun was setting and it struck me how the towers of Snaresbrook Crown Court stood out in silhouette against the sky. They were such a different shape to the bare branch's of the trees. The  building was opened in 1843 by King Leopold 11 of Belgium and was  originally the Infant Orphan Asylum and later became a school.

FLYING HIGH.

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Across Snaresbrook Pond I caught these pigeons on camera at dusk flying around above the water.  The light spanning the pond led to another lovely Wanstead Sunset picture.

THE SUN GOING DOWN ON ME...

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Leaving Waitrose in South Woodford I saw these incredible colours appearing on the horizon and immediately sped to Snaresbrook Pond. Low and behold I captured these amazing colours a few seconds before they drifted away toward the City. Another one in the bag !