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Dave 9:41 am on February 3, 2008 Permalink
Tags: flickrmeet (23), leeds (4), sheffield

Leeds Sheffield Flickrmeet

The Leeds Flickr Group planned a trip to Sheffield. The most relaxing and easy way for me to get to Sheffield is to park at my local train station for a £1 parking fee all day and get the train in for less than a fiver. There was a bit of snow on the ground near home, but more and more of it was to be seen approaching Sheffield. It was cold at 10AM, but the snow was already melting and wasn’t evident for the rest of the day.

Chinese New Year celebrations were occurring in the city and I did get a small number of shots of that, but busy crowd events aren’t really my cup of tea, so my heart wasn’t in it. Instead I just wandered around taking photos of anything that took my fancy. I did get a couple of Dragons however…

Although, if I’m completely honest, I prefer this one (even though the photo isn’t that good…)

It’s the only time I’ve approached somebody and asked “Excuse me, can I take a photo of your little dragon?”.

Once the (Chinese) dragon had made it’s journey, we stopped for a coffee before wandering the streets again and making our way to a pub. I’ve posted a handful of photos from the pub, but I think the one below is my favourite. Pictured are members of the Sheffield Flickr Group. It’s blurry and messy, but I like the reflections.

Finally, it started getting dark and we headed back to the station. I had nearly half an hour before my train departed so I stopped for a coffee and was amused to see a pigeon fly in to the cafe kitchen unnoticed. I then saw it fly across the doorway at about head height followed by a rather amusing (and rude) exclamation from the staff member inside there.

My Leeds Sheffield Flickrmeet 02/08 set contains more photos from the day.

Afterthought: Whenever I go to Sheffield, I find it hard to resist the big steel balls…

Dave 10:52 am on December 2, 2007 Permalink
Tags: sheffield, yorkshire (24)

Sheffield

As cities go, Sheffield is one of my favourites. I live in the Northern part of Nottinghamshire and I’m marginally closer to Nottingham than Sheffield. I’m more familiar with Nottingham as a city having been there countless times over the years, so Sheffield, being less familiar holds extra interest in that regard. Sheffield is also much bigger than Nottingham. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly what it is that makes me like Sheffield so much. It certainly has it’s problems. I have long since given up trying to drive in to Sheffield. Any parking there is is very well hidden and they don’t seem to bother with accurate signs telling you where things are. After several visits following signs that leave you stranded somewhere you don’t want to be, picking up the trail again and then just running out of signs again, you get the impression that this is deliberate so that you give up. I gave up. Whenever I go to Sheffield (or Nottingham for that matter) I park the car somewhere fairly close to home and get a bus or a tram which is much more relaxing.

Aside from the lack of accurate road signs, I don’t have any other problems with Sheffield and because there isn’t much in it time wise, given a choice, I’d rather go to Sheffield than Nottingham. This surprises me writing this. I work with a number of people who live in Sheffield and sometimes they have a go saying how crap and unfriendly Nottingham is. I’d stick up for it – despite what you read in the newspapers about gun crime in Notttingham, I don’t feel like I’m dodging bullets every time I’m in the city and I’ve never really seen any trouble. Having said that, Sheffield does feel friendlier, just based on how I feel walking around either city.

Another reason I like Sheffield so much is that it actually feels like a city. Nottingham kind of feels like a large town. Other than the council house, there isn’t much in the way of interesting architecture. There are some ok looking new buildings, but nothing that impressive really. Maybe it’s just my over familiarity with it that’s making me not see the good that’s right in front of my eyes. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because when I go to Nottingham, I know where I’m going and what I’m doing so I’ve stopped exploring. I probably need to go without a plan and go to places I wouldn’t normally go just to mix things up a bit!

So, this post about Sheffield, has three close-ups of various walls, which aren’t the best photos to illustrate how nice a city it is – you can see a lot more if you view my photos tagged with Sheffield. I’m only scratching the surface so far though.
Dave 10:49 pm on October 28, 2007 Permalink
Tags: sheffield, zombie

Fright Night in Sheffield. Lots of people in costumes, lots and lots of people tightly packed together and families shouting and arguing with each other. It is fun though – for a while. After a few hours I was glad to get out of the busiest area.

The photo above is also the 9^th in my 365 project set. I found my first week quite challenging and the photos are a mixed bag. I need to try harder on the working days especially and not end up in the position in the evening when I need to take a photo before the day disappears.

publicenergy, Nils, and Esther are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Esther 1:36 am on October 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  I love this!! :) Fabulous makeup and photography.
- Nils 12:52 am on November 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  Brilliant shot. I suppose it wasn’t hard to get them to pose like this?
- publicenergy 5:04 pm on November 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  They were very helpful – although because I was using the fisheye lens, I had to ask them to bend right over in their stilts to get them close enough!
Dave 10:44 pm on October 21, 2007 Permalink
Tags: sheffield

Intimate Ball Inspection

I was in Sheffield today and couldn’t resist popping by to see the steel balls once more. I am still very enamored with the fisheye lens and to get the shot above I had to balance over the ball’s drain in order to get to the point where the camera was almost touching the ball. I’m sure some of the passers by thought I was nuts!

The shot on the right gives some idea how close I got.

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- Roger B. 11:40 am on October 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  I’m gradually getting used to the idea that passers by think I’m nuts!
Dave 5:20 pm on June 15, 2007 Permalink
Tags: flickrmeet (23), lomo (8), sheffield

Devonshire Green Skate Park

A subset of the recent Lomo Flickrmeet photos taken at Devonshire Green Skate Park in Sheffield… You can see my full set from the day here and everyone’s here