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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 …
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Ghostbusters is one of my all-time favourite films. It has been for as long as I can remember – probably because it came out a few months before I was born, so I can’t remember a time b…
on Oct 31
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Bluebell Railway: Giants of Steam
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It is finally time for Giants of Steam, the heritage railway gala that, if you’ve been following my visits to the Bluebell Railway over this year, you will know I have been working towards since I …
on Oct 18
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Return to Sheffield Park & Gardens
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Last winter, I hired a RF 24-70 f/2.8 L lens in order to give it a whirl and scratch the itch I had to buy one. I had a couple of plans for stretching its legs and putting it through its paces. One…
on Oct 5
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Yesterday I found myself with nothing but time and a camera on my hands. As you may know, this is quite an ideal situation to find oneself in. Kit ListCanon EOS R6 Mk IICanon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS …
on Sep 21
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As I have mentioned on most of my recent posts about the Bluebell Railway, I’ve been looking forwards to the Diesel Gala for the best part of six months, pretty much ever since my first excur…
on Sep 8
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When we moved to the countryside we quickly signed up for National Trust memberships, granting us access to all sorts of places nearby for an entirely reasonable monthly fee. We don’t use it anywhe…
on Sep 7
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I haven’t quite managed to keep up with posting every Monday. In my defence, I’ve been afflicted by something that had many of the hallmarks of either a mild flu or a bad cold and didn&…
on Aug 28
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I’ve somehow manage to clock up almost three weeks since my last post. The day after I published London at Night: Covent Garden, I conducted one of my first ‘commissioned’ photogr…
on Aug 28
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Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! ‘Tis November the fifth, the day that the UK ce…
on Aug 28
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The weather’s getting colder, the nights are drawing in, and the desire and obligation to go outside is fading like memories of summer. In fact, just a day or so ago a cold wind hit the UK, b…
on Aug 28
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This is the first of my images from Tenerife, and we start, ironically, at the end. As we flew home, on an early flight, we caught a lovely sunset out of the window of the plane. I’m actually…
on Aug 28
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Bluebell Railway: Brighton Works Weekend
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Although I had a lot of fun at the Bluebell Railway’s Branch Line Gala in May, it was a few months before I was able to find the time to get back out onto the railway to take some photos. Kit…
on Aug 26
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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 lo…
on Aug 23
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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. …
on Aug 14
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When my friend Catherine and I took a night walk around London Bridge in January, our original plan had been to then hop on a boat to the West End to shoot there too. Ultimately, the photographic o…
on Aug 12
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London at Night – Creative Splurges
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Posts about London at Night written by Rob
on Aug 12
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My first excursion lineside at the Bluebell Railway was originally inspired by the chance to photograph some classic Jaguars (the cars, not the animal). Sadly, there was no sign of the sort of clas…
on Aug 10
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I struggled to come up with the title of this post for a while. I have a standard format of naming posts, but it’s based around places where I make infrequent, occasional trips. I’ve been going to …
on Jul 27
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Bluebell Railway: Branch Line Gala
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My first excursion lineside at the Bluebell Railway gave me a new obsession. Even though it was a short trip and I, in essence, only got to photograph two trains, the results I got were way above w…
on Jul 12
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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…
on Jun 28
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It was October 2020. Covid restrictions were easing enough for people to be able to go out when they wanted, but you still had to keep your distance and wear face masks. The vaccine wasn’t a thing …
on Jun 25
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Literally just up the road from the Bluebell Railway is Sheffield Park and Gardens, another National Trust property full of beautiful gardens and grounds to wander through, or let a child run throu…
on May 31
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Lineside at the Bluebell Railway
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When I heard about a month ago that there was going to be a gathering of the Jaguar owner’s club at Sheffield Park Station – in the same vein as the meeting of Aston Martin owners last year &…
on May 24
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In which I finally get to explore a (mostly) abandoned building.
on May 17
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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 traditio…
on May 10
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My sister-in-law Alice and her family have recently moved into a lovely cottage out in the sticks somewhere. It’s rural enough that when we visited there last week my satnav dumped me on a co…
on May 7
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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 int…
on May 1
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Returns to the Bluebell Railway
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I have been back to the Bluebell Railway on several occasions since that fateful first visit in 2019 where I bought my DSLR but no SD cards, forcing me to learn how to use my to that point barely u…
on Apr 26
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I had a day off at the start of March, and with it being a relatively nice day and with me feeling a bit restless I decided to take a drive to the coast for some fresh air. Knowing it was not that …
on Apr 13
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For today’s Creative Splurges post, I got a bit destructive with some dandelions for my own (and hopefully your) amusement.
on Apr 7
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It’s pretty obligatory these days for a photography website to reveal what equipment is being used. Maybe it’s bragging, maybe it’s just a courtesy so someone in the market for some new…
on Apr 6
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In 2018 the British Royal Air Force celebrated its 100th birthday. Amongst the celebrations marking the event was a fly last down the Thames in London on a typical London summer’s day. As it happen…
on Apr 1
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In Cornwall, on the walk to St Nectan’s Glen near Tintagel, you may come across a fallen tree. Even from a distance, the tree doesn’t look quite right. Something about the way it looks will c…
on Mar 29
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I managed to commit a cardinal photography sin back in 2019. For the first time I can remember – certainly since I’ve been running this site and taking my hobby of photography seriously…
on Mar 26
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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…
on Mar 8
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Rooster Teeth – Creative Splurges
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on Mar 6
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Whilst on holiday in Cornwall a couple of weeks ago we found ourselves in the little town of Boscastle on several occasions. One of the things that kept us returning there was the Boscastle Pottery…
on Mar 5
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Where we live we’re not that far from the south coast of England, and Brighton is our closest point on the coast. Admittedly it is a bit busy a place, but even so it’s lovely having the coast so cl…
on Mar 2
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It’s that time of year again, where I reflect on posts not written, and speculate reasons why they may remain unwritten. And also think about some of the posts I did publish.
on Jan 22