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Macro Vinyl
From time to time on this site my hobbies align. Since last year I’ve been slowly building up a small collection of vinyl records, and as I actually bought a few Record Store Day exclusives last month...
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Wild Flowers
On the first full day of our recent holiday to Dorset, Holly and I took a few lovely walks along the coast (not as many as I would have liked; we accidentally walked over 12 miles on the first one and...
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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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More Random Gems
One of the reoccurring issues I have on this blog is what to do with the isolated images I take from time to time. These can be times when I’ve simply only taken one photograph and felt that was...
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Canon Experience Day
Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to attend an experience day at Canon’s UK headquarters in Surrey. Put on by Canon, the day featured talks by Canon Ambassadors David Norton and Danny Green,...
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Lego Ecto-1
A couple of weeks ago I posted a couple of time lapses of me building some Lego models. At the end of that post I promised some better shots of the properly brilliant Ecto-1 model I assembled. The...
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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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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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Candle
Whilst in Oslo Holly and I didn’t really eat much local food. Holly can’t go near fish without some form of projectile vomit and any of the traditional eateries we investigated the menus of seemed to...
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Random Gems #5
From time to time I’ll take photographs that just don’t sit with the others I’m taking alongside it, so they end up cast aside when I’m writing in order to not disrupt the flow of the post with a...
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London Wetlands Centre
I’ve had a fair amount of success lately in shooting and editing pictures at various locations. Actually writing them, however, is still proving a bit of a challenge. We’re at that time of year when,...
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Chocolate Skull
I’ve posted before about some of the products from Chococo, a small Dorset-based company specialising in chocolate that is both utterly delicious and often amazingly beautiful. For the Day of the Dead...
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Dandelions
There are a handful of photo projects I have been intending to get around to for some time. Some such ideas have been sitting on my to-do list for years but, as is often the case, means, motive and...
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Crochet
Creative Splurges take all sorts of shapes and sizes. Although this website has ended up being by and large predominantly devoted to photography, in theory when I started it I was intending to share...
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British Wildlife Centre
For Christmas a year ago, my wife got me a photography experience day at the British Wildlife Centre. The centre is only open at weekends and school holidays, so when I went on my visit last June, me...
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