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St Mihiel American Cemetery
The area of north eastern France we journeyed through on the few few days of our European road trip is battlefield country. A lot of fighting took place during various wars in that part of Europe, none...
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Nancy
After leaving St Mihiel we continued on to our next overnight stop, Nancy. Admittedly by this point we were tired and hungry, having covered over 120 miles on country roads since the morning. Although...
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Basel
Day three of our European road trip saw us leaving France and entering Switzerland. We crossed the border near Basel, which ended up being our first stop in the country. We hadn’t originally intended...
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Return to Swanage
It was my birthday last week (side note: all of your birthday cards, and the cheques they contained, appear to have gotten lost in the post). To celebrate, my wife and I decided to stay in Swanage, one...
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November
Every monthly review I’ve posted here this year has started with some sort of surprised exclamation that time is moving forwards at a never-ending pace. Indeed, it’s been so long I’m not sure how else...
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Lake Lucerne
We continued on from Basel heading for Monday’s overnight halt on the shores of Lake Lucerne. Our original plan had been to head over the Alps and possibly even stay up in the mountains on Monday, but...
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Over the Alps
Our plan for Tuesday could be summed up in its simplest terms as driving from one lake to another. The drive, however, was the thing – we’d driving the Furka Pass, over the Alps themselves, and heading...
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Lake Annecy
We left Lake Lucerne, headed over the alps and after a twisty-turny mountain drive into France we made our way to another lake: Lake Annecy. The difference was stark: earlier in the day I’d thrown a...
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Festive Bokeh
For the Christmas break this year I’ve hired some photography kit to play about with whilst I’m off work. Amongst the few bits and bobs (and you’ll find out about the others in due course) is the Canon...
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2014
Can you believe it, it’s already been a year? As has become traditional I like to end the year with a review of the year, in a manner similar to almost every other website, blog, TV show or anyone...
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2014 in Pictures
One of my favourite annual posts I do for this blog is my Year in Pictures collection, where I share some of my favourite images that I’ve posted in the last twelve months and put them together in a...
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The End of Xmas
It has been a Christmas tradition for me for almost every year since I got my first DSLR to take a photograph on the theme of The End of Xmas. I can’t say I’ve been particularly experimental on the...
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Turin
We’d only been back in France for a day, and we were already leaving it, heading from Lake Annecy into Italy for our final overnight halt in Turin. We’d spent a bit more time in Annecy in the morning...
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Four Years
1/80, f/1.4, ISO 640, 50mm Four years ago today I started Creative Splurges with the theory that having somewhere to post the occasional creativity I had might encourage me to do more with it, rather...
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Macro Chocolate
As you may remember my wife and I visited Swanage in November for my birthday. And no visit to Swanage is complete without a trip to Chococo, the Purbeck Chocolate Company. If you like to keep score of...
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London by the Thames
1/800sec, f/1.4, ISO 320, 50mm Over the Christmas break I hired a few bits of photography equipment to have a play with whilst I was off work. All of the equipment was an upgrade for some of equipment...
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January
Have you noticed how we’re already past January and so one twelfth of the way through 2015? I know it’s really cliched for me to open these posts like that but seriously, it’s February already....
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London Lions
1/640sec, f/1.4, ISO 1000, 50mm Last Friday I was able to attend a basketball match with a press pass. I’m part of a photography group, and one of the organisers apparently knows the right people,...
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London at Night V
This post is called London at Night V which, thanks to the way I’ve named and numbered my various London at Night posts, is the seventh post in my London at Night series. That’s not me failing at Roman...
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Colourful Fountains
Sometimes when out shooting I’ll go on enough of a tangent that the resulting images just don’t fit in with the rest of the post I’ve written, or they’ll prove too much of a distraction from the main...
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