Birmingham Christmas Market

December the 1st, Christmas posts are now officially allowed! Wahoo!

I visited the Christmas Market the other week, armed with my camera to get a few snaps of the festivities. The lights looked so pretty and warming, it's a shame the weather was so cold! 

Here are a selection of my favourites...

Ostrich burger anyone?

Looking down from the top of the new library in the city centre gave this picturesque view of the market.

With a slight height bonus I managed to grab this oldy-worldy view over the craft market towards Victoria Square.

This shot was taken from the new library, standing on the roof where the wheel starts to peep over the balcony.

The market is well worth a visit, particularly in the evenings as the sun sets and Christmas lights come on, it's a very pretty sight to get you in the festive spirits.

Tractors, Lots of Tractors!

It's been a while since I photographed tractors, but on the 27th December, CTVEC hosted their annual Christmas Road run, complete with a Santa. I had a ball and despite the awful weather got some decent snaps of the day.

The early birds watching arrivals.

Happy driver

There's quite a queue to book on.

Booking in

Exchanging raffle tickets.

Double seater?

Cold and wet? Yes.

Watching everyone in to the parking spaces.

The weather didn't stop Santa visiting though.

Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

I honestly do not know how our Christmas tree has managed to survive so long already. And without any broken baubles. To mark the memorable occasion of standing for a week and gaining only a slight forward lean I took a few snaps. Clichés of course.

One self portrait..

Two self portrait.

Yeah, my Cliches were intentional as I wanted a new self portrait and being in the festive spirit these made sense.