Two friends in Shrewsbury

It was designed as an unusual experiment with disposable cameras left on park benches across Shropshire. Random people were invited to pick them up and capture a snapshot of a day in the life of the county.

And these are the results with people taking pictures of friends, family members, pets and street scenes. Dozens of people from across Shropshire got involved in the county-wide photo experiment on Saturday.

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It was organised by members of the Shropshire Community of the Flickr photosharing website.

Cameras were left on benches in Bridgnorth, Ellesmere, Ludlow, Much Wenlock, Newport, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Telford complete with a note inviting people to take a picture of whatever they felt like.

The cameras were collected on Saturday evening by members who developed the films to find out what people had taken pictures of.

None of the cameras were stolen and organiser Mike Ashton said the experiment had gone really well.

“We’re really pleased with how it went and we’ve got some really interesting pictures,” he said.

“We’re still waiting for some of the pictures to be developed and hopefully they will all be done in the next couple of days.

“We’ve got pictures back from Much Wenlock, Newport and Shrewsbury and the ones from Much Wenlock are the best so far.

“We left two cameras in Shrewsbury, one outside the library and the other at the top of Pride Hill, near the shopping centre. We got a nice portrait of a mother and child and a group of about six youngsters from the one by the shopping centre.”

Jake Perks, who left a camera outside Just William Cobblers in Newport High Street, said: “We got some really nice photos of people and of the High Street.”

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By Jonathan Wood