Monday 22nd September 2014, 3.45pm (day 1,124)
I hope this one isn’t too much like Google Street View. Even if it is, it’s still the cleanest and most satisfying shot I managed today, in one of the few bursts of light that came while I was outside.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Tag Archives: Manchester
Sometimes I just walk out and gaze at the sun
Monday 15th September 2014, 9.35am (day 1,117)
Sometimes you just see a shot, and have about five seconds and one chance to capture it before it goes away (in this case because the guy simply stepped back inside through the window to his left). They don’t always come out as hoped, but this one did. Played for and got.
Victoria Station’s new roof
Monday 11th August 2014, 4.25pm (day 1,082)
Into Manchester for the first time in a few weeks. Victoria station’s redevelopment proceeds onwards: this is taken from platform 1, looking back towards the old building (listed, so they have to preserve it in the rebuild) and the new roof. It’s good to see.
Selfridges, Manchester
Thursday 17th July 2014, 9.25am (day 1,057)
Last day in Manchester until well into August. People seem to have disappeared from these photos in the last few days. Indeed, in the last 6 I’ve depicted nothing more sentient than a raspberry.
By Canal Street, Manchester city centre
Thursday 3rd July 2014, 9.40am (day 1,043)
Canal Street in Manchester is best known for being the street in the midst of the Gay Village; but it does actually still have a canal beside it. This is probably the first time I have seen a working boat on it. If you barge it for long enough, by the way, in a generally northerly direction, this is also the canal that goes through Hebden Bridge, as seen many times on this blog in the past.
National Football Museum
Monday 23rd June 2014, 4.40pm (day 1,033)
Time to slip in another football reference, as we are now 11 days into the World Cup. Beautiful day in Manchester (and in most of the rest of the UK) today.
Huddle
Friday 13th June 2014, 12.35pm (day 1,023)
The main thing that annoys me about this shot are the fire exit warning signs. The non-parallel nature of the lines at the top is explained by the fact this building is cylindrical in shape. So ends a week spent mainly on campus in Manchester.
Rear entrance, University Place
Tuesday 10th June 2014, 11.25am (day 1,020)
Instalment n+1 in the irregular series: “Obscure but Well-Lit Corners of the University of Manchester campus”.
Waiting to talk to people
Wednesday 4th June 2014, 12.35pm (day 1,014)
Not every photo that makes it up here is picked for artistic reasons (some would say that few of them are). The point of the choices is also to try to epitomise a day somehow. And I spent most of today in rooms, talking to people, while cruddy drizzle came down outside.
On the Manchester Museum roof
Tuesday 3rd June 2014, 10.15am (day 1,013)
Are there bees up on the museum roof (as viewed this morning from my meeting in the adjacent Arthur Lewis Building)? Or have the tropical frogs escaped? What is the builder carrying in the orange swag bag? Inquiring minds want to know.
