Bank holiday weekend keeps snappers busy; Flickr photographers capture pavement art, Creamfields and skaters.Byline: LAURA Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch. She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?–1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved. Laura Petrarch’s perpetual, unattainable love. [Ital. Lit. SHARPE LIVERPOOL THE talented photographers of the Daily Post's Flickr group have been busy capturing the life and soul of our region this week. Among the most colourful of photographs is Kap'n'Kaos's collection of shots of pavement art. As Liverpool once again became the capital of music over the bank holiday, the city's longstanding Fringe Festival also attracted the crowds. Pavement artists from Liverpool's Urban Canvas transformed Fringe venues in Seel seel tr.v. seeled, seel·ing, seels To stitch closed the eyes of (a falcon). [Middle English silen, from Old French cillier, from Medieval Latin Street into mini works of art. Using only coloured chalks, the artists brightened up the walls of Heebie Jeebies, The Zanzibar and other venues. Meanwhile, dangerous disco was out at this year's huge Creamfields music Festival. As music fans braved the heavy rain, the impending dark skies Dark Skies is an American sci-fi/drama television series which aired during the 1996-1997 season for 20 episodes. The success of The X-Files on the FOX Network proved there was an audience for genre shows, resulting in the NBC Network commissioning this proposed provided the perfect background for dangerous disco's arty photographs. After spending 16 hours editing his photographs from the Saturday, his shot of the fairground shows the fast-paced buzz of the festival perfectly. And while Merseyside was alive with the many events and music festivals, G Lloyd was out shooting a more serene but active scene of city life. Their clever photo of three of the many skateboarders wheeling around the city gives only a hint of movement. G Lloyd has managed to freeze the monochrome skaters in their gravity defying stances, in the forefront of the towering John Lewis store at Liverpool One. To view the pictures sent in to the Daily Post Flickr pages or to join and upload pictures to the site, visit www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/videos-pictures/flickr-group Each Friday, pictures are chosen for our Daily Post postcard. Pictures must be jpgs landscape, at least 20cm wide and about 200 DPI (Dots Per Inch) The measurement of the resolution of display and printing systems. A typical CRT screen provides 96 dpi, which provides 9,216 dots per square inch (96x96). Flat panel displays from 110 to 200 dpi have also been developed. resolution. LIVERPOOL DAILY POST The Liverpool Daily Post is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror on Merseyside in England. It is published Monday to Saturday and is published in Merseyside, Cheshire, and North Wales editions, and is the morning paper. * LOG on to our website at www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/flickr to see all the images - and submit any of your own CAPTION(S): Dangerous Disco submitted this image of fairground action at the Creamfields weekend in Daresbury G Lloyd flickr pic of skaters in the Liverpool One complex Kap''n''Kaos Flickr pic of street art in Liverpool |
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