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...
View ArticleBirds 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...
View ArticleHuxley’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...
View ArticleReturn to Drusillas Park
Although ostensibly this website is all about me learning the craft of photography, backed up my me posting some of my creative process and useful information like the EXIF data, in reality most of...
View ArticleTilgate Nature Centre
One of our more visited attractions near us is Tilgate Nature Centre. It’s an inexpensive day out and provides lots of interesting animals to look at, and space for a child to both stare at the...
View ArticleThe Royal Parks Again
Back when I lived in Twickenham, some of my go-to places whenever I needed to take a day for some fresh air and some photography were the Royal Parks. We had Bushy Park and Richmond Park a quick drive...
View ArticleMore Random Cornwall
Whenever I go on holiday, I often find myself with an assorted pile of photos. Sometimes there are logical ways to split these out into themed sets of images, such as Cornish Sunsets, Old Padstow...
View ArticleReturn to Brighton Aquarium
Back in February we took another trip to the Brighton Aquarium. Our last trip there was back in April 2022, although we did also visit Weymouth Aquarium a couple of years ago, so there are a few...
View ArticleBritish 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...
View ArticleBig Cat Sanctuary
A little while ago, and for reasons I don’t particularly remember, my wife was given an experience day voucher by her work. She ultimately chose to visit the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent to feed some big...
View ArticleDrusillas Park
Nestled in the Sussex countryside not that far from Eastbourne is Drusillas Park. It’s one of those places where I can take photographs of animals and my kid can have fun on some rides (and also look...
View ArticleBrighton Aquarium
Because either I’m a glutton for punishment or I love a challenge, less than a year after facing all the difficulties in photographing at Weymouth Aquarium, we visited Brighton Aquarium for more of...
View ArticleWeymouth Aquarium
Shooting in aquariums is a challenge. If you’ve been reading this site for a while and have a good memory (or just found this site whilst searching for aquariums and have recently looked at some of my...
View ArticleGarden 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...
View ArticleBrompton Cemetery
The photo walks I have been on in the past with my friend Catherine have produced some of my best work. From our first trip to Borough Market, through our series of London walks in 2015, and our...
View ArticleLondon 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,...
View ArticleSpring Along the Thames #2
I like walking. I feel I should start with that so that you can consider the post that follows in that context, because we can all get carried away doing the things we love sometimes. I’ve had the last...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleKeyhaven 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...
View ArticleRandom 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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