Tag: University of Leeds

Dr Round’s Bespoke Watercolours

Dr Round’s Bespoke Watercolours

Reading Time: 5 minutes So after the first tests with purchased pigments, I have gone up a level and foraged a few of my own and had a go an processing these as inspired by Found and Ground. Ultimately what you are doing here is getting the raw material 

Charity Shop Goodness

Charity Shop Goodness

Reading Time: 3 minutes So, it’s happened. As you will know, avid reader, after getting very interested in photography alongside my undergraduate dissertation, I bought myself a DSLR about 18 months ago. I remember as a teenager also being quite into photography and admiring my neighbour and scout leader 

Getting Wide

Getting Wide

Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the last couple of years of shooting, Ihave developed quite a thing for epic wide-angle scenes. I love the amount you can fit in and the really exagerated perspectives of wide angle shots. Having managed to be quite good with my svaings this year 

Jon Snow

Jon Snow

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Another quick one. Channel 4 have just done a live broadcast of the Channel 4 news from the refectory at Leeds University, and of course a quick chance to be in the audience was too good to miss. The rationale for being broadcast from a 

Light Night 2010

Light Night 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Light night happens every year in Leeds, with art installations over the city after dark. There’s often some very good stuff, but it can be quite hectic and busy. I was quite tired this year and not so engaged with taking pictures, but here’s a 

Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

Reading Time: < 1 minutes I am not really, so I like to say, a man for having heroes. However, in a very academic manner, one person for whom I have a lot of respect is Emiritus Professor Zygmunt Bauman. The School of Sociology has just run a conference to 

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 4

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 4

Reading Time: 4 minutes For this final (for now) installment of Backstreets and Rooftops, I took myself deeper into the University Campus. I’ve been very inspired by this project, and hope to gather the absolute best of these (as I know I have posted many shots over these four 

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 2

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 2

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been out again with a further installment of the project to explore the backstreets and rooftops of Hyde Park – taking loose angled shots to explore the way we would see some of these places through the corner of our eyes, but would not 

Reindeer

Reindeer

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s not often you get to meet a real reindeer, but we have had some visiting at work this week!

Night Time Panorama

Night Time Panorama

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick one. had a quick go at stitching together a panorama today, of the view from my office window over campus. I’m quite pleased with how this has turned out.

Mushroom Season

Mushroom Season

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes I do think that I am a little odd. I found these mushrooms growing on the edge of campus, and of course just had to get the camera and grovel about in the wet to take photos…

Autumn Colours

Autumn Colours

Reading Time: 2 minutes I took myself round and about Woodhouse Moor for a lunchtime walk, and to try and capture some of the colours of Autumn. Autumn is a funny month, nature displays some of the best colours of the year, but the weather so often fades these