Green

Here are the green things people have chosen to record. Sorry they're going up a week later than advertised. I am also putting the 'Concrete' challenge back by a week as a result. The latest schedule, then, is as follows:

8 September - Concrete

26 September - Work

As usual, the challenges can be interpreted in absolutely any way you see fit. I hope you like that new one.

I know at least five Campus Look people have entered the staff photo competition since last time - good work everyone! I hope there will be a winner amongst us. The deadline for that was actually extended to Friday 24 August, so if you missed it and are really disappointed, you could always try and squeeze an entry through over the long weekend. Who knows? You might get away with it.

I have also noticed that the Campus Tour section of leeds.ac.uk has been updated recently. It is still linked in the sidebar here, and has some very nice pictures of the campus if you dig through it. There really is so much to photograph here, and so many ways to show it. How many pictures of the Parkinson Building must there be on departments' websites? And it looks so different in some of them!

There were 20 votes for the best Extra last time around, so thanks. I have not posted the exact results, so I can only hope that you won't be suspicious that my own picture is the current favourite. Please continue to use the voting widget in the sidebar to choose what you think is the best bit of green below.

Great pictures this time, I think. Click them to see them properly and remember to press F11 in Internet Explorer to fill the screen. Enjoy!




Number 1
Picture by Alex Buckley
Taken behind The Students' Union
Title: "V of Tree"






Number 2
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the Parkinson Building basement






Number 3
Picture by Emma Farnworth
Taken in the Brotherton Library






Number 4
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken outside the School of English






Number 5
Picture by Sabina Grahek
Taken at the Woodsley Terrace Flats
Title: "Green Door"






Number 6
Picture by Alex Buckley
Taken between the Michael Sadler Building and the Students' Union
Title: "Foliage Mesh"






Number 7
Picture by Terri Sandiford
Taken near the Michael Sadler Building
Title: "Verdant Brilliance"






Number 8
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the ancillary room of the sports centre

Extras

Here you see tide-mark of the preceding week's flood of popular opinion, which filled this page and gently lifted Terri Sandiford's 'Auriole' to rest, as it does now, on a dainty meniscus of appreciation. Well done, Terri.

I have a strong feeling - don't ask me why - that the photography competition at the staff festival will be won by a Campus Look contributor. As far as I know, no Campus Look contributors have actually produced anything, so far, apart from an intention to take part. Although it is not a point raised explicitly in the terms and conditions, I am quite sure that intentions alone are not even eligible for entry. Intentions cannot be displayed at A3 size at the festival and admired by the strangers you've always wished would notice you, and bald intentions will not earn anyone any of the (big) prizes. What that means is that the prizes are yours for the taking. Big prizes.

At the very least, everyone who has submitted pictures to this site should just send one of them to the competition. There's nothing to lose, and at least three things to gain:

1. The thrill of engaging with the Leeds University staff community
2. The notoriety and fan mail that would result from your picture being displayed at the staff festival
3. Big prizes

Those were listed in no particular order. (Worst to best, obviously.)

Email this form along with your picture to Nicola Gallear (she's on Campusweb) by 17 August and, when you win, thank Campus Look publicly.

Nearly at the pictures; bear with me...

After what I would call - and encourage others to call - an onslaught of photographs over the last few weekends, the schedule looks like this:

18 August - Challenge Number 7: green

1 September - Challenge Number 8: concrete

I know some of you (some of my closest friends!) haven't sent me a picture in rather a long time. I try not to take it personally. There's lots of notice for those two challenges, and no room for excuses. I don't want to resort to mentioning names here of lazy photographers. I do not intend to expose, scold, mock - humiliate - those who have failed me. However, as I think I have made quite clear, intentions are of limited significance.

Okay: you read this far. Well done. Click the pictures, press F11, vote for your favourites - you know what to do by now, don't you?

See you in a fortnight.
R



Number 1
Picture by Sean Power
Taken from the Edward Boyle Library
Challenge: Window





Number 2
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken under the Rupert Becket Lecture Theatre
Challenge: Ceiling





Number 3
Picture by Lara Patrick
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building
Challenge: Ceiling





Number 4
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the Parkinson Building
Challenge: Ceiling





Number 5
Picture by Roland Ingram
Taken in the Parkinson Building
Challenge: Window





Number 6
Picture by Justin Ions
Taken in the Michael Sadler Building
Challenge: Ceiling





Number 7
Picture by Sean Power
Taken from the Edward Boyle Library
Challenge: Window