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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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Red Arrow Flyby
My last post (please ignore for the moment, if you don’t mind, that it was quite a while ago) featured some things photographed from my back garden, most of which I’d never really expected to see....
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Garden Wildlife
Let’s get this out of the way from the start: this post will contain images of tits and peckers. Whether that helps or hinders the popularity of this post remains to be seen. (Although an early...
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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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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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Lightning
One night, somehow already over two years ago, I found myself at midnight unable to sleep. There was a torrential storm going on, so I got up and poked my head out of the window to see the most...
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Hair Cut
A couple of months ago I made the decision to shave my head for charity. It had been almost 15 years since the last time I had short hair, not long before I started university. Most of the people in my...
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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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Experimenting With Light
Sometimes when I’m feeling in a creative rut, as I did for pretty much all of 2016, I will look to buy a new photographic toy to rejuvenate myself, try some new things, and bring back the spark of...
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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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Anniversary
Today marks five years since Holly and I got married. Five whole years. I’m thirty now, at my age I find five years to be the sort of length of time that feels neither ages ago nor just the other day....
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Kitties
My little break from Creative Splurges has been a bit longer than I originally planned. I’ve used the opportunity to go through my archive and pull together a couple of long-overdue collection posts –...
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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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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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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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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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Party Poppers
It’s a little bit more of an experimental post this week, something I’ve not done in a while. This week I’ve been playing about trying to capture party poppers in the process of firing, using my...
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Random Gems III
I’m afraid it’s another slightly cheating post this week. For the second week running I have struggled to complete a post, and for the same reason – being just a few days off of shooting a lot of...
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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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Lego Timelapses
I’ve been playing about a bit lately with Lego (it helps that my nephew is obsessed with the stuff). I recently decided to combine my love of Lego with my love of Ghostbusters and buy the Lego Ecto-1...
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