Wakefield

Alex53 · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:03

I am going to Wakefield next week (Sunday to Friday) for a course and was wondering if you guys know any interesting places for photography there?

Mainly night photography since I suppose this time of the year its dark by 4pm or earlier up there, and I am stuck in front of a PC from 9ish to 5ish.

I'm staying in the Chasley Hotel, no idea what its close to.

Alex53 · 30 Nov 2006 at 19:14

Hey thanks for the list of places, I'll make a note so I remember. The hotel is paid for by work so no problem there if its expensive

The course is a Cisco routing one (PIX firewalls). Fun :rolleyes:

On Friday I have to catch a train to Manchester, spend whats left of the night in a hotel there and then fly back to Gibraltar in the morning. I hate the schedule being so tight, a free day would have been great for photography.

Alex53 · 5 Dec 2006 at 13:20

ok, here I am in Wakefield, and last night it hit me what Gilly meant by saying the hotel charges by the hour. I thought he meant it was expensive. But a randy couple in the room next door woke me up at 3, at 5 and at 7 last night :eek:

lol ...luckily I was sleepy enough to just turn around and carry on sleeping within a few minutes.

EDIT: Also no photography done yet. Managed to leave the batteries behind! I thought there was one in the camera and got the charger, but then the camera was empty. Doh! There is a jessops just beside the hotel if I can get back from the course b4 5:30pm

Alex53 · 6 Dec 2006 at 10:33

I have to pop in to a photography shop later and get a battery because I left behind all my Canon 300D/Canon 10D batteries. (BP-511 and BP-511A)

Now, I have enough of them and I just want this one to serve me right now. Is the 'Jessops HL-BP511 LITHIUM-ION Battery Canon Fit' which is half the price of the Canon BP-511A worth getting? (£23 vs £54) or is it really bad?