What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
We are Leeds Community Foundation and over the next nine weeks, we are asking the residents of Leeds to send us their photographs depicting what Leeds and their local community means to them – by entering our photography competition My Leeds in Focus. As a charity we are celebrating ten
Students proudly showed off their work to families, staff and other students at an exhibition of GCSE Photography at The South Leeds Academy last week. This was the first year that the school had offered the course and 36 students took it as a one year course. The course
Day 2 of the community reporters course and we are looking at photography, featuring a trip to somewhere I’ve never been before, Middleton Park. After an introduction on the techniques on how to take a good picture we headed off, armed with my new found knowledge and my camera
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Community Reporters Course run by South Leeds Life spending ten weeks learning skills in news story writing, opinion pieces and how to write the perfect headline. Held at the new South Leeds Community Radio headquarters we were quickly thrown in the
Capturing ‘summer 2013 in south and east Leeds’ is the focal point of a photography competition organised by NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). As part of its efforts to encourage local people to get involved with the work of the recently established CCG, the NHS
Last night we started a new Community Reporters Course. Over the coming weeks we will teach our students how to write a better news story, how to take a better photograph, the art of headline writing, the use of social media and more. The course is very hands on,
We are now half way through our current Community Reporters course. Over the last five weeks our students have learned what “hyperlocal blogging” means; they’ve learned to take better photographs to illustrate their posts with trips to Middleton Park and Leeds City Museum. Last week we looked at structuring
Nature at its best in South Leeds. Ignoring the forecast of rain, we ventured out to Middleton Park. Sad to say I’ve lived with the view of the park for 5 years but only visited once and I don’t think I’m alone in this. There seems to be some great
Budding photographers in Leeds are being encouraged to focus their lenses on their local park as part of a competition to celebrate nature and wildlife in the city. Entries for the annual Leeds in Bloom calendar competition are now open, with people of all ages invited to take a
My main hobby is photography. Since my early teens I have been interested in taking pictures. I’ve been using 35mm film for about fifty years. These days it is a different ball game, many people use digital cameras. Whether a basic compact,which can be reasonably inexpensive, or various Digital Single