2 months ago, I submitted two of my photos for a competition organized by local newspaper, Bradford’s Telegraph & Argus. The main objective for this competition is to bring out the best of Bradford and it’s surrounding district.
Before I submit the photos, I choose the best 6 photos for my colleagues to pick, and most of them love the following two. They’ve called me amateur photographer after that, one of them even asked me to shoot a recently open mosque for his promotion purpose, which I did, the results were not as good as I wanted, but I’m glad he is happy though.
I am flattered with this “amateur photographer” title, but I know there are still a hell lot more to learn in photography, however, I take that as encouragement.
These two are most favored.
The building with the chimney visible to just about anywhere in Bradford is Lister Mills,. It was the largest silk factory in the world. If you are interested, you might want to read a bit more of Lister Mills in wikepedia, which has more than 130 years of history.
I think many of them like it because of the blue sky and cloud, which you won’t normally have in typical English weather. I am now currently living in this beautiful mill, not in the chimney of course!
The second one is Cartwright Hall in Lister Park, just about 5 minutes walk from where I live, a beautiful park I visit almost every week. My dog loves the park! I used the bushes as a natural frame, however, due to my incompetent in Photoshop, I couldn’t bring out the desired result.
You can view all the entries for the competition, namely Beautiful Bradford.
One of the competition rules is the photo has to be in landscape mode, where all mine are in portrait mode. I don’t think I stand a chance to win it. Anyway, it is just for fun, will put more effort for next competition.
Tags: Bradford, building, blue sky, Lister Mills, Cartwright Hall
baby
11 Jul 2007
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Eric Tan
11 Jul 2007
Okie, I am getting mad now, I can’t see a word you type.
Ahh…I am going to fix this, sorry bout this
rachealliang
11 Jul 2007
…………….not start yet …ur mood already like this…
cheers..
no matter u are a winner or loser.. u are still Eric Tan
for us..u always the winner~! Eric Tan Boleh~~!!!!
tks for the wonderful pictures. (yah.. i like the first one..)
Eric Tan
11 Jul 2007
野蛮宝贝: I’ve fixed the problem! I’m so happy to fix it
racheal: thank you. do you know me? I mean in real life? have we met before? Mind to tell me a little bit more about yourself? I like to get to know my readers more
yenjai.net
12 Jul 2007
The contrast and the colour is simply amazing!
kaka
12 Jul 2007
I like the first photo, simply because of the angle of shooting makes me feel nice. :p
Of coz, the buildings are nice….
Mind to tell how you fixed the Chinese characters problem? thanks. :p
Eric Tan
12 Jul 2007
Thank you kaka and yenjai, critiques are welcome as well as compliments
kaka, I’ve just deleted the 2 lines in wp-config.php
define(’DBCHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DBCOLLATE’, ”);
I didn’t fix the problem, the people in wordpress forum did. I think it is because it overwritten the database character setting.
rachealliang
13 Jul 2007
Hi Eric:
您可以email 给我吗?我吧我的intro都写回给您好吗..
我想要底碉点的自我介绍.好吗?
你懂我的email right.
我其实是从您的朋又网业看到你.然后就click 你的webpage..觉得..应该给你鼓励鼓励.就留言了..希望您不介意.
祝:快乐.
Eric Tan
15 Jul 2007
呵呵，已经收到了
谢谢你的鼓励。 ：）
Feldman
03 Aug 2007
Nice pics Eric! I wish I can afford such nice camera…
Eric Tan
08 Aug 2007
Feldman, of course you can, it just that you have other priority at the moment.
I am looking forward to take your family photo on my next return, didn’t have the chance last time.