The Big Picture - West Midlands

Big Picture Day 8th May — Your chance to see your photos on billboards near you - Extended to photos uploaded on Friday 9 May too

Big Picture Day is Thursday 8 May – every photo added on that day will be in with a chance of appearing on giant billboards around the region. Due to overwhelming numbers of photos we’re extending this to cover photos uploaded on Friday 9 May too.

Add your photo of the West Midlands to the Big Picture on Big Picture Day and it’ll automatically be entered in a competition — eight winners will be selected to get the full billboard treatment. There’s sure to be one in a town near you!

Upload to the web or text from your mobile — it’s up to you. To add a photo by MMS send it with BIGPIC first in the text of your message to 60300*.

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Celebs galore in the sun on Big Picture Day

Hundreds of people joined Kylie, Will Smith and David Beckham in Victoria Square in Birmingham to celebrate Big Picture Day and learn about our great competition. People lined up to have their photos taken with our lookalikes, who braved the risk of sunburn to chat and pose with for four hours!

There are nearly a thousand photos, which are coming through to our Big Picture Roadshow gallery now (since there are so many it’s taking a while - see the Big Picture pages on Flickr here for every single one!)

There’s even some video of the fun:
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Site issues - update 8 May 22.45

Following an enormous response from people across the region to Big Picture Day, we’re sorry to say that the website has experienced some difficulties coping with the overwhelming number of visitors, and some people may have been unable to access the site this evening.

Our web team are working hard to solve the problems, thanks for bearing with us. We do apologise to those of you who have been unable to visit the site to upload your photos.

Because of this we’ve extended the deadline for entries to the Big Picture day competition to midnight on Friday 9 May.

‘Becks’ is Stoked! - Big Picture Roadshow

If you met ‘David Beckham’ in Stoke today, don’t worry you aren’t going mad — he was there to promote Big Picture day.

Don’t forget you can meet Dave, Will Smith and Kylie in Victoria Square, Birmingham tomorrow!

See the photos of today:
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Will Smith in Walsall - Big Picture Roadshow

‘Will Smith’ was in Walsall today with The Big Picture team - posing in front of our special ‘Big Picture Red Carpet’.

If you’re in Stoke tomorrow you can meet ‘David Beckham’ and both Will and David will be in Birmingham on Thursday.

They’re promoting Big Picture Day on May 8th, don’t forget to join in.

Here’s a slideshow of the photos:
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Going up!

The football season is drawing to a close, there are promotions, relegations and even European places still to be decided – sport is an important part of the West Midlands and we want to see everything that you’re passionate about in The Big Picture.

The Big Picture team were at Stoke City on Sunday, to celebrate with all the fans - including TV’s Nick Hancock!

Even if there’s nothing to play for we’d like to share the story of your season, and if you’re not a football fan we’d still like to see any sport that you do like! Add all your photos to our Sport gallery by tagging photos “sport” as you upload them.

The photos from the day at Stoke are here (if you’re struggling to find yourself you can see all of the images on one page here on the Big Picture pages on Flickr).