Digital Visits

A large group of Digital Photgraphers we seen wandering Loftus today. Cllr Barry Hunt had organised a visit to the Town Hall and thanks also  go to Alison, Clerk to Loftus Town Council for showing us around.  Barry features on these walls in both name and image. Our intrepid group are pictured below in the Council Chamber. We then took to the streets of Loftus. What a fabulous place, I’ve visited many times and driven through even more but you see so much more on a walkabout. This visit was accompanied by a rich tapestry of local stories from John including the one about the famous Race between a Camel and a Lion. The pictures will end up as digital post cards as well as featuring in the Iron Age To Digital Age exhibition to take place in Loftus Town Hall in September.

 

Two weeks ago Susan was using a camera she got free in a lucky dip. Now she has turned into David Bailey. More pictures here

Joan has been on holiday. Now that she is back she has uploaded her pictures and you can see them here.

Trevor has blogged his visit here and John has added pictures here.

I had a blast today. I headed out to Whitby which is always a good trip. The purpose was to facilitate a multi media reporting blog for Whitby Community College and their feeder schools. http://www.whitbyschoolstransfer.co.uk Groovy URL huh? – the kids chose it.

For reasons that I’ll not go into now I found myself with a People Carrier on hire. I therefore sent messages out on my networks asking if anyone wanted a trip to Whitby. I got three takers, Trevor who is a Poet and on work experience to my projects. Susan, part of my Wednesday Community Media Club at Destinations in Saltburn. Susan spends a lot of time looking after her 100 yr old mother and has recently got into digital photography in a big way. Finally John a local historian from Loftus.

None of these guys knew each other so we had a round of introductions in the “Whitby Shuttle”. Trevor will be documenting this trip as well as evaluating the various mechanisms available for “Digital Visits”. I’ll let you know when he blogs the story warts and all.

With two local history buffs in the car it was sure to get interesting in a watching paint dry way. It transpired that the guy who wrote the Biggles books is from Marske where we had a recent digital visit. Now, apparently this guy who wrote about an ace pilot was actually a crap pilot himself. For some reason this group dubbed me “Biggles” which may refer to my driving skills.

I dropped them in Whitby centre and then went off to do my gig whilst they did theirs.

On the way back we called at Loftus Library home of the fabulous East Cleveland Image Archive and discussed some stuff including an open evening at the library for June 24th, all welcome.

The group have now written up the story of their visit which can be found here. http://miningvisit.wordpress.com/