Park Plaza Hotels Competition

Everyone doing Photography at LCA has been given the chance to enter a competition for Park Plaza Hotels. Apparently the Park Plaza Hotel in Leeds is getting refurbished and they want photographs to go on the walls of the corridors and rooms. There were three categories - Yorkshire Hospitality (the people of Leeds), Icons of Leeds (the history, heritage and architechture of Leeds) and Wild Yorkshire (the landscapes, flora, fauna and wildlife of Yorkshire). The deadline is tomorrow, and here's what I've decided to enter in each category:

Yorkshire Hospitality

 These photos have to be in black & white, square and 15cm x15cm, to go in the corridors of the hotel, and be backlit. I think the first one is my favourite, although I do sort of prefer the second one composition wise. I like the first one because as soon as I walked in the market & got my camera out, the old man came over and asked if I'd take a photo of him and his son, which I thought was really sweet! There was also a lady standing next to him but she wasn't really paying attention/posing so i cropped her out so it fitted in nicely with the square requirements. (We're allowed up to three entries in each category so I entered all three)

Icons of Leeds

This one is of the roof/clock in the Corn Exchange. I think it counts as a pretty iconic place in Leeds because there's not many places like it in the whole country, and because it has quite unusual architechture.This category is to go in the Executive Suite rooms in the hotel, so I was also thinking this might be a good place to photograph because not many people in those rooms (I'm assuming fancy/rich businessmen!) might get the opportunity to see the Corn Exchange if they're just in Leeds for business or whatever. I also wanted to go up to Hyde Park Picture house to take some photos because I think that would have even moreso counted as a place not many people will see or have even heard of, however I've been a bit poorly therefore haven't been feeling my usual adventurous self recently and didn't fancy what would most probably involve me getting very lost in the wind/rain (plus I didn't want my camera to catch a cold as he'd been rained on quite a lot that day ;)

Wild Yorkshire

I was so stuck on this category, it would have been ideal to have a car so I could have gone to the actual countryside or something! Instead I just planned to have a walk to Hyde Park and see what I could get there, however this was taken before I even got there. I took these and was happy as I could be with them so decided not to go to Hyde Park as I'm guessing thats where everyone has gone! I was walking up Woodhouse Lane and saw this sort of overgrown patch of land (I called it a field in my actual description for the comp, to make it sound nicer ha) where the sun was lighting these flowers (probably weeds...) and I decided to try and capture the church in the background to add more of a countryside/Yorkshire feel to it! This is probably my least favourite as I find 99% of flower photos a bit cliched, but I was just happy to get something for this category as I seriously thought I was going to have to miss it out!