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Swanage Railway
For the 300th post here on Creative Splurges we’re returning to my recent trip to Dorset, and today we’re riding the railway. Swanage has a heritage railway operating from Swanage itself to Norden,...
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City of London
After our visit to St-Dunstan-in-the-East, Catherine and I headed deeper into the City of London, chasing the sights of the modern high-rise skyscrapers that have cropped up over the last couple of...
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Bath
On the same day that Holly and I marked our 5th wedding anniversary, some 82,000 people descended onto our neighbourhood for the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup. Whilst this is an accepted...
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Swanage Lifeboat
I’ve long held a fascination with the Swanage lifeboat. When we first started holidaying in Swanage when I was only three years old we always stayed in one of the Coastguard Cottages adjacent to the...
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Instagram #22
It’s time once again for another short and sweet collection of some of my Instagram imagery (and also, to figure out a way of starting these Instagram posts without continually using the phrase “it’s...
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Rugby World Cup
As I’ve mentioned in a few posts, the Rugby World Cup is in town. Or rather, it was, as it all finished up last weekend with New Zealand beating Australia 34-17 to retain their title and bring to a...
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2015
It has, I admit, been pretty quiet here on Creative Splurges as of late. I’ve been taking a bit of an extended break to recharge my batteries and creative juices so I can start the new year anew. I...
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2015 in Pictures
My favourite annual tradition here on Creative Splurges is my Year in Pictures post. Every January I post a collection of some of my favourite images from the preceding twelve months, as of late in a...
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Five Years
1/80, f/4, ISO 100, 50mm On January 14th 2011, a pretty astonishing five years ago, I sat down and started Creative Splurges with a simple post. I had no idea back then how long it’d last, but I...
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Early Morning, Richmond Park
I admit it: I wasn’t particularly photographically active over the winter break. Sure, I made sure to put out my annual review, and curate a list of my favourite photos of 2015 as is traditional, but I...
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Random Dorset
This penultimate post of images from my summer trip to Dorset is a bit of a grab bag of the images I took that didn’t really fit into the any of the other posts I’ve put out so far. It was a relatively...
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City of London
After our visit to St-Dunstan-in-the-East, Catherine and I headed deeper into the City of London, chasing the sights of the modern high-rise skyscrapers that have cropped up over the last couple of...
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Keyhaven Marshes
I’m back. I normally try to keep all of my posts generally as self-contained entities, referring only to other posts and not to too many of the particulars of my life. But this site has been on a bit...
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Lumiere London
Way back in January, longtime collaborator Catherine and newbie Zoë went out for our first and so far only photo walk of 2016. It’s proven to be a busy year in many other ways and so photo walks just...
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Random Cornwall
Whilst writing Random Dorset, I realised I still had a large archive of images from my 2013 holiday to Cornwall that had been (mostly) edited but never released, for the same reasons that led to the...
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Old Harry Rocks
Our somewhat abbreviated summer of walks – which ultimately ended up being only a handful – led us on a hot day in May to talk a walk up to the obelisk that overlooks my favourite town of Swanage. I...
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Oslo
So we ended up in Oslo. Okay, maybe I should back up a bit. Back in November Holly and I had a week off for purposes of relaxing, chilling out, and using up annual leave allowance. We didn’t really...
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2016
Let’s be honest: 2016 didn’t really go well for anybody (I even misspelt ‘really’ in the first draft of that sentence). That extended to this blog, where my lull at the end of 2015 never really went...
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Six Years
It was six years ago to the day I sat down and almost on a whim started Creative Splurges with a simple introductory post. Since then, every year on January 14th I’ve marked the occasion with posts of...
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The Macro World of the New Forest
Last May, in the optimistic late spring of 2016 when we’d only had a bunch of celebrities die and had no idea just how terrible the year would ultimately turn out to be, Holly and I had a week off work...
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