The Big Picture - West Midlands

See The Big Picture unveiled at Millennium Point

Everyone is invited to come to see the breaking of a World Record on Saturday (23rd August) at 2pm in Birmingham.

BBC Midlands Today’s Shefali Oza will be on hand to talk to the shortlisted photographers and reveal which photo becomes The Big Picture.

The Big Picture mosaic will be 900m² in size (about the size of three tennis courts), and will be unveiled outside Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum at Millennium Point (Google Map).

Helen Marshall, Artist was commissioned to lead the final phase and making of the Big Picture. She worked with photo mosaic specialists PollyTiles to realise the enormous image made up of photographs submitted by the public.

The Big Picture takes shape as the shortlisted images for the record-breaking mosaic are revealed

With just over a week to go, and over 110,000 pictures received from across the West Midlands, we can reveal the eight photos in the running to form the final image of the world’s largest photo mosaic.

All 110,000 images sent in from the public will be used to create a huge, record-breaking photo mosaic, the size of three tennis courts, to be unveiled outside Birmingham’s Millennium Point on Saturday 23 August. The mosaic will create the image of one of the final eight shortlisted photos, but the special picture will be kept under tight wraps until the grand unveiling.

See, and discuss, all eight shortlisted images.

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John Clayton picks his favourite weather photos

Weather photos were a big part of The Big Picture, with over 500 added to the weather gallery. There are shots of sun, rainbows, snow, and it being the British summer lots and lots of rain.

John Clayton has his own weather station and takes photos of the conditions nearly every day — he’s picked his top ten weather photos from The Big Picture for us to see.

If you’d like to put together your own galley of “picks” on a theme, or just your favourites, email us at editor@inthebigpicture.co.uk and well put it together with you.

World Record Blog: Helen Marshall, Lead Artist

Helen Marshall tells us how the construction of the mosaic is going:

The photos are being assembled one by one onto the two hundred and eighty eight plywood boards by the volunteers and the tension in the hall at Thinktank is heating up.

It was great to meet some of the people who are giving their time to the project and helping with the mass assembly, many of whom have submitted a lot of photos and who keep coming across them in the montage.

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Big Picture Picks - Richard Rendshaw

You may have seen Richard Redshaw on TV at some point, as he was one of a few Big Picture photo submitters to be interviewed on BBC Midlands Today. He sent around a thousand photos in, and has been closely following the project, looking at as many of the photos as possible.

Richard has picked eight of his favourites for everyone to see.

If you’d like to put together your own galley of “picks” on a theme, or just your favourites, email us at editor@inthebigpicture.co.uk and well put it together with you.  

Making the mosaic at Dudley Zoo

The Big Picture team were at Dudley Zoo with hundreds of photos and a panel of the mosaic on Wednesday, so visitors could contribute to breaking that World Record.

The Zoo’s section of the mosaic was completed in record time with help from John’s Lane Residents Group from Tipton Road Methodist Church, who were visiting as a treat.

There are still many panels to go, over a hundred still need their photos added, so if you’ve time to help and would like to be part of The Big Picture please come to one of the workshops. You can find full details here.