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Snowhill Construction

Discovered this fairly recently. Snowhill in Birmingham is currently one huge construction site. The Snowhill 1 building is currently looking like a building, so not much to document there. However the Snowhill 3 (Snowhill 2 will be constructed later) construction is still a big hole. For the last month or so I have been shooting the construction. At last something has started to appear. The main building core has started to rise. Still not much to look, but I get the feeling this will grow quick.

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Bullring Website, now up and running

Yes, it happened.  Finally the project finished.

Old / New Gallery 

Although the gallery looks the same I’ve made a few changes including rollover thumbnails, Linked images and a slideshow.  All in wonderful Javascript!

The initial thumbnail is the black and white image, rolling over to the new colour thumb (using onMouseOver and onMouseOut).

Try it, you might like it!

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Bullring images processed

So after what seems to have been a month (cos that’s what it was) I’ve finally got round to looking and sorting the new bull ring images.

A small selection here….

Out of the 36 I wanted to shoot only 18 were available (Mainly as shops were built on the other parts!). Initially I’ll be looking at web based project, with a move to using all 36 original images in a book. Along with this more colour images obtained during this shoot. So a fair few before and after images, though only 18 to directly compare against.

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Bullring Update #468

The management office contacted me to allow me to shoot, so I did.  Not had anytime to process any images as yet.  Camera trip and a Hospital trip (Daughter banged her head, she seems to be fine) put paid to anything productive.

Still, the tricky part is over.

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BullRing Update

Hopefully will try to get access to the Bullring this week.  I have a spare day in the middle of the week so will be looking to shoot then.

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test post from Macbook

Test post on alternative SQL

Test seems to have worked correctly.

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Stability Issues

I know the blog has only been up a week, but I’ve had a few issues with losing the database in this time.   This was not entirely unexpected as my other blog (personal) was experiencing the same since a server update.   Well, It does seem that the latest fix I have seems to have solved it.  Since the modification of a system file, the faulty blog started to work.

Now I have a test blog which I haven’t modified yet, this is still down.   Though once the server is rebooted it will come back up.  But it does look stable.  The server is due for re-installation to fix a number of other long standing issues.  However I have a temporary server which will be running this site whilst the update takes place.

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Bullring Update

Quite a positive day today.  Spoken to the BullRing Management office and they are fine with Photography.  I just need to let them know when I’m coming in (and advised to avoid peak times) and they’ll give me a pass.

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Birmingham Subways

A place holder for the project link.  The project currently focuses on the Lancaster Circus subways.  This isn’t the end of though.  When time allows I will be investigating a few more.

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Old BullRing, update

Had a stroke of luck with regards to aerial images.  Actually something better than an aerial shot, I managed to obtain (via a legal source!) some computer maps from a database.   These have quite a high level of detail (for the A4 size).

However, this new data has made me realise something.  Most of where I shot is now covered with the new bull ring.   Some of the locations are still in the public area, some appear to be now within the shopping centre itself.  The BullRing management are meant to be quite tolerant of Photography (Or so I’ve heard, though I heard Selfridges can be a bit funny.  But again It’s web talk, so probably complete and utter rubbish).  So I’ll attempt to contact the Bull Ring people myself.  I have a source in the Bullring, so initial contact maybe a bit easier.

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