Take a photo of the city in the early hours of the morning

You may have heard of the Birmingham-based 4am project that aims to gather a collection of photos from around the world that were taken at 4am.

The project is building up to 4 April 2009, where the plan is to get people to take a picture of their world in the early hours of this coming Saturday morning.

You then email it to the organisers or upload it to Flickr and tag it with 4amproject, plus the city and country where the photo was taken. The hope is to gather a snapshot of the world at this specific moment in time.

If anyone in Sheffield is taking part then we will see the local submissions appear afterwards on the Flickr search results page showing all photos tagged ’4amproject’ and ‘sheffield’.

Your photo doesn’t have to be as spectacular as some of the previous 4am project shots. But with a bit of thought (and a tripod), even an urban shot of a neighbourhood can look impressive:

Moseley at 4am 10 by Pete Ashton on Flickr

People in other cities are organising a photo walk for the middle of the night, although as far as I know nothing like this is currently planned for Sheffield.

Is anyone local planning on getting involved?