Tag: photographs

Slideshow: Beeston Festival 2012 in photos

[slideshow]There may have been the odd blustery shower, but that didn’t stop thousands ofr people of all backgrounds from South Leeds and beyond enjoying the 18th Beeston Festival this afternoon. Opened by Hilary Benn MP, the event boasted dozens of stalls from local groups, organisations and businesses, as well as raffles, tombolas

Get ready for a special photohunt at Beeston Festival

Are you ready to photograph Beeston at its best tomorrow? Beeston Festival draws thousands of people each year – and South Leeds Life is organising a special event to encourage local people to photograph the event and the wonderful people there. We’ve teamed up with the Looking Good Beeston and Holbeck photography project,

Slideshow: The wonders of Middleton Park

[slideshow]Photographer Alex Smith joined the Middleton Life local history group’s rainy walk around Middleton Park with the Friends of Middleton Park last week. His photos of the walk, which looked at the rich history of the park were so good we thought we’d include them as a slideshow on the blog.

Picture Perfect: Holbeck Cemetery at dusk

This wonderfully atmospheric photograph of historic Holbeck Cemetery at dusk was captured by reader Hilary Denham – aka Leedslily on photo sharing platform Flickr. You can catch more of Leedslily’s photos of Holbeck Cemetery on the South Leeds Life group Flickr pool. And there’s a fabulous set of her Beeston

Picture perfect: View from Holbeck Cemetery

South Leeds Life reader Jonathan Bliss has shared this beautiful photograph of Leeds’ inner city skyline at dusk taken from the viewing point at Holbeck Cemetery. We think it’s a truly breathtaking photo! Jonathan has kindly shared a couple of photographs of the view from the cemetery on the South Leeds Life group

Picture perfect: ‘Beestonscape’, a photo of south Leeds in the snow

Regular South Leeds Life reader Ed Carlisle has sent us this wonderful photograph of Beeston with a difference. Ed says: “Just thought you might like this pic of Beeston in the snow, for your archives. It was taken by my mate Chris Heward.” Thanks for sharing it, Ed – it’s a

Help picture south Leeds through the 4am Project

Photographers with mild insomnia and an eye for the unusual will have the unique opportunity to play their part in an innovative global project to record and document their community before dawn, writes Karen Strunks. The global phenomenon that is the 4am Project returns for its seventh event on 15th April, as