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Thetford Forest

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Part I I have been looking for new forests recently that are close but different from the ones I have ben visiting regularly for the last couple fo years. My wife ad I took Mollie to Thetford forest and I amongst the plantation pines there are some more wild beech forests. So a couple of weeks ago Mollie and I got up early and we headed to an area near Two Mile Bottom.  We trekked through pine forest and along forest roads and stumbled upon an area of beech forest with its clean vegetation-free floor littered with beech nuts. The leaves were still quite green on most trees as this has been a warm fall with no frosts. The grass on the walk up held heavy drops of due and my boots were soon soaked through. Wind whipped in gusts through the tree tops. Coming upon this beech forest next to a farmer's field we could see and hear the early potato harvesting activity. I setup the Intrepid with a 150mm lens. The sky was mostly cloudy so it was appropriate to use some chrome film (Fuji Astia...