Roundhay Park

Roundhay Park was huge and very well kept. I photographed only a small part of it, The Canal Gardens, which had the prettiest canal I'd ever seen with fountains and little tunnels in it. There were also some beautiful flowers I took pictures of. They were really unusual and tropical looking and attracted quite alot of older people who seemed quite enthusiastic about the flowers.

Temple Newsam

Temple Newsam is a huge country estate with a large house, courtyard, farm, walled gardens and acres of woods and fields to explore. I really enjoyed my day here, I think there is definately something for everyone to enjoy, I especially liked the walled gardens. I used my marco lens to take some close ups of the various flowers and really liked this alternative way of photographing the park.

The Secret Garden (goitside walk)

On my way home from Kirkstall Abbey I stumbled across a small wooded path on Kirkstall Road. A set of small gravel steps took me down to an ivy covered river bank. The whole path only took ten minutes to walk through but it was really beautiful, though it was extremely well hidden. I think the only people that must use it are local dog walkers as it is very hard to see from the main road. It was by far my favourite park I've visited since I've been in Leeds, its just a shame that hardly anyone will know about it - or maybe that was its appeal.

Kirkstall Abbey

I found Kirkstall Abbey pretty uninspiring. I think there was alot more to explore but I just looked around the ruin because it was a crappy day. I found that my drawings were much better than the photographs I took, the texture and dark sketches really brought out the discarded, run down look of the Abbey.

Golden Acre Park

I noticed that the whole park was covered in benches the visitors use to sit and relax, to escape from city life.




Golden Acre Park was a perfect park for a family to visit. These sizeable parks have a great deal of well maintained infrastructure. The amount of benches and toilets detracted from the experience as i felt the park was so popular that it had almost become a theme park.

Hyde Park and Burley Park

I walk through both of these parks on my way to college and they are a favourite part of my journey. The contrast between the buzz of the city and the relaxation of these smaller inner city parks make them a really valuable area.

My first ever post

Reportage Leeds

This is my first brief at uni-to explore Leeds and document how I experience it.

As a starting point, a group from my course went on a mapped out walk of Leeds - covering Brigate, the market and the Dark Arches.

I enjoyed looking round the city and dicovering parts that I hadn't visited before, although I did find the experience quite uninspiring - I just thought that everyone has seen all this stuff a million times so whats the point in taking pictures of it?