The perpetual photography thread

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Fixed it for you.

Some photos I took today in the West Yorkshire village of Esholt. Esholt is a village between Shipley and Guiseley, in the metropolitan district of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

From 1976 to 1996 Esholt was used for the outside location shots for the Yorkshire Television drama series Emmerdale Farm, becoming Emmerdale in 1989. The series then relocated to a purpose built set based on the layout of Esholt on the Harewood estate in Leeds.



An advertising banner for the The Woolpack. The pub used to be called The Commercial Inn but decided to name itself The Woolpack after the popularity of the pub's popularity in the series. It's really just a normal village pub that would be unremarkable without the aforementioned Emmerdale connection.





And one of the main streets in the village:



More on this later. It really isn't a big place - the pub, the church, the village shop and the old hall is really all there is to it.

Tequila, those are so cool! i love the last one (Church Lane?)

so, i went to my favourite liquor store and found a few u.k. beers on my usual shelf. here is a crappy pic of them (sorry for the quality, i got overexcited and wanted to upload them ASAP).

i found Samuel Smith's India Ale, Old Empire Ruby Pale Ale, and HobGolbin Ruby Beer. what is a ruby beer? i also have tried one called Duchy Originals from Waitrose Old Ruby Ale.



just so that i don't completely dumb down the quality of the thread with the horrid beer pic, here is a better photograph:

I like that one, would have been better if there was writing on the board.

That's awesome.

I've had all of those.

I like Sam Smiths India Ale but here in most of the UK we see very little of the Samuel Smith's beers outside of pubs that are owned by them. I don't think the brewery even has a website! They're based in Tadcaster in North Yorkshire.

Marstons Old Empire is a strong pale bitter. Not a true IPA, but a very good drinker. I really like that one.

With the Hobgoblin, you're very lucky. The British cask version of this beer is much weaker than the bottled edition - the cask versions are often made weaker to appeal to a greater cross-section of people and help to keep the tax rates down. Only problem is though that with many beers it takes the taste with it. Cask Hobgoblin is 4.5%. In Sweden they do a 3.5% version which more or less kills off the point of the beer.

I thought it was a car door to a white Range Rover at first!

thank you Titangeek and Tequila!

i like some ambiguity in my photos, so that it is hard to tell what i've photographed. the chalkboard was one of the last ones in the school division before they were phased out, in an abandoned wing of a school. it felt lonely but peaceful there.

I'm sorry, but did I understand you correctly? They have phased out chalkboards in school?

It's a very nice picture. It belongs with my shutter picture!

thank you!

the chalkboards were all converted to whiteboards and SmartBoards.

i can really see i need a better camera though. i have been using a Fuji Finepix E500 point-and-shoot from 2004. my dad used to say that it's a poor workman who blames his tools, but seriously...

I agree with your dad, and yeah, if Ansel Adams wielded a Holga he'd produce better photographs than anything I can make. But I'd still say Ansel Adams knew a good lens when he saw it, and sought out those tools that best complimented his craft. If you feel it's time to upgrade your camera, see it as a good sign.

(Yeah, I just got a new camera... I've been practicing justifying it to myself for weeks.)

Bloody hell, I was very close to buying a bottled of it yesterday but put it back on the supermarket shelve for Double Bock.
Right the bottles I picked up yesterday:
Cains Double Bock 8%
Wells Waggle Dance 5%
Shepherd Neame's Bishops Finger 5.4%
Morland's "Old Speckled Hen" 5.2%
Hoegaarden 4.9% (Hoegaarden Grand Cru 8.5% is better imo)

Those are all very good shots. I've got to visit this thread more often.

Thanks, Moog. Here's the "goth" version:
Link: RenFaire Angel (dark)

Ah man some nice selection of ales there

Bit of a trip down memory lane seeing Esholt again. Went by their a few years ago. Used to go get delicatessants from a shop in Ilkley not too far away

I really like the shot of the chalk/chalkboard.