02.06.17 — Journal
Summer Hits Hyde Park
As I mentioned in my blog post centred around my time in Burnley, we have also been enjoying the sun back over in Leeds too, and so one day I got a bit stir crazy and decided to head out with my cameras through the student area of Hyde Park. I took with me my digital Canon and old manual Praktica film camera, and I had the film developed quite quickly thereafter, and so for once I can bring you both the digital and the film scans at the same time.
![Summer study days](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Scan-33-1024x684.jpeg)
![Heading out past the law school](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Vista-1024x683.jpg)
![The sun creeps into the park](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Scan-4-1024x686.jpeg)
The film camera once again yielded some lovely shots, including the one above where the sun has created a lovely halo on the film. For more photos from the camera you’ll see them throughout this post but also some shots from Portugal and Germany which I have uploaded in the past.
![The layers of Hyde Park history](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Blocks-1024x768.jpg)
![The sky rolls in over the moor](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hyde-Park-1024x683.jpg)
Pretty much the entirety of the student population had crawled out of their Hyde Park houses and flooded onto the moor to enjoy the sun, and I wandered through pretty aimlessly to soak up some of the heat.
![Students on the moor](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Scan-5-1024x679.jpeg)
![The sun begins to set](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Sundown-1024x683.jpg)
I then re-entered the gloriously messy student housing area and took a couple of photos on the old camera which compliment the redbrick aesthetic of Hyde Park, including the only gaslit cinema still in existence in the UK – Hyde Park Picture House.
![The picture house](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Scan-1024x683.jpg)
![Popina's](https://olliebriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Scan-2-1024x684.jpeg)
I hope you enjoyed having a snoop through the student area as much as I have living there and taking the opportunity to stave off my cabin fever – it was lovely to actually leave the house after some busy deadlines!