Twilight

Lodge Moor, Sheffield, 03.2013

Stroll

Porter Valley, Sheffield

The Arts Tower, Sheffield

The Arts Tower and Western Bank Library, Sheffield University

The Arts Tower in Sheffield, designed by Gollins, Melvin, Ward & Partners, is the tallest educational building in the UK. Opened in 1966, together with the adjoining Western Bank Library is now Grade II listed building. It features a Paternoster lift, largest surviving in the country.

Behind the Curtain

Members of the St Marie's Primary school's Theatre Club wait in excitement 
for the curtain to rise during club's performance of 'Robin and the 
Sherwood Hoodies' in the Montgomery Theatre in Sheffield.

Sheffield Botanical Garden #3

Sheffield Botanical Gardens - Flowerscape #2

Sheffield Botanical Gardens - Flowerscape #1

Glass Pavilion, Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Glass Pavilion, Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Immersed

L reading, Sheffield

Glass Pavilions, Sheffield Botanical Garden

Glass Pavilions, Sheffield Botanical Garden

These pavilions were an original feature of the Gardens when it opened in 1836. The local architect was Benjamin Broomhead Taylor,  who worked closely with Robert Marnock (the first curator), Joseph Paxton (gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth) and John Claudius Loudon (a leading landscape gardener of the day) on the project. As today, the three domes were linked by ridge-and-furrow glasshouses.
The Pavilions were restored in 2005.

Newington Rd, Sheffield

Newington Rd, Sheffield, UK

Heavy snowfall yesterday. I went photographing armed with an umbrella to stop snowflakes falling on the lens. It worked pretty well but I found manual focusing in mittens a really hard task. It never ceases to amaze me how filtered our vision is. While taking this picture I concentrated on the overall composition and only noticed the patterns created by the overhead cables later during processing.
And, by the way, it is a colour photograph ;)

Sheffield in Snow

Whiteley Wood Road, Sheffield, UK

Jeffrey Green House, Brown Hills Lane, Sheffield, UK

Silent Night

Harrison Lane, Sheffield

Brown Hills Lane, Sheffield

A walk in the clouds

Sandygate Rd, Sheffield. UK

Carsick View Rd, Sheffield, UK

Carsick Hill Rd, Sheffield, UK

Tom Lane, Sheffield, UK

Curlew

Curlew (Numenius Arquata) in flight, Redmires Reservoir, Sheffield, UK

Leaf detail, Botanical Garden, Sheffield

Tree Reflection, Porter Brook

eARTh, Tree Reflection, Porter Brook, Sheffield, UK

Little Miss Trouble

To get a reasonable look off a child that actively poses you need some kind of trick. Like getting her to make faces and snap the normal look in between, when she's rushing to see the results.

Magpie and Moon

This shot crowned our afternoon walk around Sheffield with dear friends from Lincoln. Many promising photographs to follow the water-colour theme and a pleasant stroll that took to places never visited before.

Magpie and Moon, St Vincent, Sheffield

Variable Mirror

We have bee blessed with wonderful weather today. This is the result of a stroll along Porter Brook. No Photoshop here, just Mother Nature.