Images of rural Norfolk

The Norfolk Rural Community Council recently held a photography competition with the aim of finding images that summed up the strengths and challenges faced by rural communities. I was pleasantly surprised to win second prize with a shot of the Community Playbus (the picture is in my previous post). The Omnibus project, based in North Walsham, uses the bus to deliver information technology and play facilities to outlying rural areas. We came upon the bus purely by chance while travelling along a country lane somewhere in North Norfolk looking for other subjects entirely - and realised it would make an interesting statement for the 'services, access: are you being served' theme (one of six possibilities). Its appearance in the very rural setting and the fact that it represents a project clearly delivering service to rural areas obviously appealed.The one below was taken on my mobile phone at the Council's AGM and shows part of an exhibition stand with a range of selected other entries - the winners were announced as the last item at the meeting.