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Shot on iPhone: All In
Today’s post is something a little different. Last weekend, I headed over to Wembley Stadium to catch All In, a wrestling show from All Elite Wrestling, the second-biggest wrestling company in the...
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Lake Garda
I may still be bringing you photographs from holidays in previous years, but I wanted to break that flow to bring you the photographs from our most recent holiday last month, to Lake Garda in Italy....
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Solar Eclipse
This evening we’ve had our first decent partial solar eclipse in the UK in 27 years, since the one we had in 1999 that saw totality creep into Cornwall. As it took place in the late 90s, it was...
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More Steam Trains on the Mainline
At the end of my last post about mainline steam, I mentioned that I had noted some dates for future excursions. It turns out that most of the ones I had seen for spring and summer were either...
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Random Dorset #5
I have a largely simple naming convention when it comes to naming posts. The first post about any given subject is usually just named after the place or thing. The second is usually either ‘Return to...
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Bluebell Railway: Model Railway Weekend 2026
It’s time once again for what, in 2026, has become a monthly visit to the Bluebell Railway. In March we had the Spring Gala, in April I went bluebell hunting, in May there was the Road Meets Rail...
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Grimaud, France
All the way back in 2017 we went on holiday to the south of France. Such is the currently chaotic nature of the way I’m rummaging through some of the deeper recesses of my back catalogue, it has taken...
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Bluebell Railway: Road Meets Rail 2026
We are technically in a lull period for galas at the Bluebell Railway. The last one was the Spring Gala back in March, and the next is not until the start of August. The gap, though, is filled with...
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Random Gems #7
From time to time I will take random photographs that don’t really fit with the rest of the post I’m writing. Whenever that happens I will squirrel it away for later, and then share it in a collection...
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More Bluebells at the Bluebell
Bluebell season is starting to wane; the bluebells are slowly dying out as their brief time in the sun comes to a close for another year. Here on Creative Splurges though, we’re still very much...
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Birds in the Bluebells
Bluebell season is in full swing right now. Anywhere I go at the moment there are swathes of bluebells, whether that’s in gardens, along the verges of the Brighton Main Line, or – yes – even along the...
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Swanage Railway: Spring Gala 2026
At the start of the year, as I often do, I set myself a few photographic challenges for the year ahead. The first was to shoot little blue Scottish steam engine № 828 over at the Spa Valley Railway,...
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Bluebell Railway: Spring Gala 2026
It’s Easter, which is prime spring gala season in the heritage railway world. Many railways like to run galas at this time of year, running more intensive timetables and bringing in guest locomotives...
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Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
Back during our 2023 holiday to Dorset, we took a visit to Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, a garden holding a variety of exotic plants in western Dorset. It led to me taking quite a few lovely macro...
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Spa Valley Railway
At the start of the year, I set myself several photography-based resolutions for 2026. One of those was to visit the Spa Valley Railway to see Caledonian Railways № 828 in action. By late January I...
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Huxley’s Bird of Prey Centre
Every time we’ve driven into the nearby town of Horsham, we’ve noted the little tourism sign highlighting a bird of prey centre. We usually saw it when we were doing something, or on the way home from...
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More Returns to the Bluebell Railway
As you’d expect, I’ve been to the Bluebell Railway a lot over the last year. Usually those visits have coincided with a large event such as the Branch Line Gala or Giants of Steam that get their own...
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Climbing Cap Roux
The geography around the south of France is interesting in just the sort of way I love. The coast is rocky, hilly, in some places mountainy, and with it the roads are lovely and curvy – basically, the...
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Bluebell Railway: New Year’s Steam Up 2026
The old saying goes, start as you mean to go on. While I’m not the biggest proponent of that saying – the most important thing is starting in the first place – it never hurts to get your year off on...
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More Festive Bokeh
A little over a decade ago, I marked the hire of a 50mm f/1.4 lens by taking some lovely blurry shots of my Christmas tree to see the big aperture in action. Nine years later, I briefly repeated the...
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