'A Rooftop' and New Challenges

Much to tell you this time...

First of all, let's get the new challenges out of the way. We are now up to Challenge Number 5. However, since only the most Herculean of us are able to take a photograph with a mere fortnight's notice, I hereby offer the more definitely mortal a sneak peek of Challenge Number 6. In a horrible eruption of generosity I give you four weeks to ponder that one.

So pay attention as you go about your day and see if you can find an appealing view of...

Challenge Number 5: lunch (deadline 7th July)

Challenge Number 6: (optimistically) sunlight (deadline 21st July)

Next up, the results of last time's vote! Stealing first place by just a single vote was 'Vacant', now enthroned up there at the top of the page. It couldn't have been closer - unless, perhaps, there had been more than one vote. Which brings me to the biggest news of the day: voting is now much quicker and easier.

So then, just before we see the rooftops of Challenge Number 4, I must ask you to decide as you view them which deserves to bask triumphantly at the top-right of the page. I have numbered all the pictures, so note the number and click it in the new polling box in the sidebar (supplied by the stupidly-named - but admirably free of charge - 'Poll Daddy'). And for those who are just scrolling past all this to get to the pictures,



NEW VOTING SYSTEM IN THE SIDEBAR.



Apologies to all you patient readers who are sticking with me. I wasn't shouting at you. Having endured the greens of my blurb, your photographic pudding will be all the more delicious. And you'll grow up big and strong.

Thanks again to the kind contributors - good to see some new names on board, although it would be just as good to see some more old ones coming back. (As always, lick the images to see them properly, and hit F11 in Internet Explorer for a full screen.)

Don't forget to vote for your favourite!



Number 1
Picture by Ted Jones
Taken at the Emmanuel Centre






Number 2
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken outside the Man-Made Fibres Building
Title 'Enormous house'





Number 3
Picture by Ted Jones
Taken at the Brotherton Library





Number 4
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken from the Michael Sadler Building / Parkinson Building bridge





Number 5
Picture by Fuyuko Morimura
Taken at Cromer Terrace
Title 'Top of the World'





Number 6
Picture by Lara Patrick
Taken at the Biological Sciences Building





Number 7
Picture by Ben Kapple
Taken from the E C Stoner Building





Number 8
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken from the E C Stoner Building

Extras

Welcome to the newly refurbished Campus Look. Please explore the new links in the sidebar and share your thoughts in the comments section of this post.

Vote for your favourite picture
One big addition is the 'Current Favourite'. It's my favourite at the moment, but I'd prefer it to be a readers' choice decided by voting. I was hoping to install a slick, push-button, voting system but, unfortunately, I can't work one into Blogger (yet...). For now, just choose your favourite picture and cast your vote in thecomments at the bottom of the post. The leader at the next posting will be showcased until the following one.

Since the current challenge - number 4, a rooftop - is running for one more week (remember to bring your cameras to work next week please!), here are some extras to tide you over. All the pictures below are earlier submissions which, for an assortment of reasons, didn't reach the original posts.

As usual, click the pictures for enlargements. And don't forget tovote!


Picture by Matt Thorley
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building
Title: 'Big alien worm mouth'




Picture by Sam Schindler
Taken in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute
Title: 'Cross'




Picture by Alex Buckley
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building
Title: 'Vacant'




Picture by Sam Schindler
Taken in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute
Title: 'Downstairs'




Picture by Matt Thorley
Taken behind the Houldsworth Building
Title: 'Spiral stairs'




Picture by Sam Schindler
Taken in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute
Title: 'Gravity'




Picture by Justin Ions
Taken from the Michael Sadler Building

"A Ceiling" and Challenge Number 4

Yet again, I have not met my own deadline. Perhaps you are all punishing me by ignoring the third challenge? Or are you all not inspired by ceilings? I suppose it was a tall order...

How about we get a little taller - above the ceilings and looking down, in fact. Challenge Number 4: pay attention as you go about your day and see if you can find an appealing view of

a rooftop.

Those are a bit more obviously picturesque, and I know some of the earlier entries featured rooftops, so at least some of you should be able to find one. Entries, as usual, to the address above. Next post on the weekend of 23rd June (or thereabouts). And, if you like the pictures you see here, why not leave a comment at the bottom of the post? I will endeavour to remove the need for you to log in to do so.

So to the ceilings... Despite the lack of interest, things were still looking up for yours truly: behold!



Click the images to enlarge them. (In Internet Explorer, press F11 to maximise the viewing area!)



Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building





Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in Chancellor's Court





Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building





Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building
Title: "Bounce"