Tag Archives: Manchester

Sep 17 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Manchester Town Hall

Tuesday 17th September 2013, 9.40am (day 754)

Manchester town hall, 17/9/13

In case this hasn’t been apparent from the pictures, it’s been raining for about three days now: not heavily, but persistently. As it always seems to around now, just in time to welcome the new year’s students to Manchester: hi, here’s that grey rainy city you were being warned about. Wanted to get a picture today that encapsulated their arrival, but with such flat grey light it was better, in the end, to do one like this. I know I could have been more at the necessary right angle to the facade, but hey.

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Sep 13 2013
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Daily Post, Transport

Tramlines, Manchester

Thursday 12th September 2013, 2.30pm (day 749)

Tramlines, 12/9/13

I’m a little disappointed with the sharpness of the background but there’s a long zoom on it to get the right depth of field so I guess one can’t have everything. The focus is just a bit further forward than intended. Otherwise I like the sinuous sweep of these tramlines, as they come down past the G-MEX centre and head towards the city.

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Sep 10 2013
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Central Street, Manchester

Tuesday 10th September 2013, 4.15pm (day 747)

Central Street, 10/9/13Just another one of those corners that pop up at the periphery of my life. I had very little time as I half-ran back through Manchester today, to catch the best train home, but I did pause along the way to catch this shot. It’s not of anything in particular, it’s just a combination of cloud and architecture and light that I like.

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Sep 06 2013
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Clare at her… our photo shoot

Friday 6th September 2013, 1.05pm (day 743)

Clare in make-up, 6/9/13

Returning from my week working away was encouraged by the chance to join Clare at her photo shoot at Alt.studios in Manchester. I should in fact call it ‘our’ shoot because I also had my first experience of being in front of a professionally-wielded camera. Whether you get to see the results or not depends on how well I know you.

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Jul 23 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Empty precinct, University of Manchester

Tuesday 23rd July 2013, 3.45pm (day 698)

Empty precinct, 23/7/13

Officially I’m still on sabbatical. So you didn’t see me. I wasn’t here today. Nor, really, is anybody else. This is of course the time of year we like the most.

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Jul 15 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Graduation balloons

Monday 15th July 2013, 10.10am (day 690)

Graduation, 15/7/13

Congratulations to the summer graduates of the UoM, who certainly had fair weather to mark their achievement, although I was not present at this (or any) ceremony this year. Most of my students graduate in December. The shot also gets in because of the mild comedy value, you see what I mean, I’m sure. Or maybe it’s the Watchmen reference. I love Watchmen.

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Jul 03 2013
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St. Peter’s chaplaincy steps

Wednesday 3rd July 2013, 12.25pm (day 678)

St Peter's steps, 3/7/13

Second day in a row in Manchester, that hasn’t happened since January. Familiar territory, but new in that I’ve never managed to catch anyone blowing their nose before. I didn’t set out to take such a shot; but that’s street photography for you. Taken on the steps of St. Peter’s, the University’s Catholic chaplaincy.

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Jun 29 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Arndale Centre, Manchester

Saturday 29th June 2013, 4.05pm (day 674)

Arndale Centre, 29/6/13

In the 12th century we built castles. In the 15th century we built cathedrals. In the 19th century we built factories. In the 20th century we built shopping malls. We might not like them but sometimes you just end up there.

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Jun 18 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Vimto memorial, Sackville Street building

Tuesday 18th June 2013, 1.40pm (day 663)

Vimto memorial, 18/6/13

I went into Manchester today, but don’t tell anyone — officially I don’t go back to work there until early September. But there were reasons to go in today, which went beyond the desire to have the first Manchester photo on the blog since day 504 of the blog, 10th January, 159 days ago. This sculpture sits outside the university’s monumental Sackville Street building and pays homage to the local non-alcoholic beverage, Vimto, an anagram of, well, you can work it out.

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Jan 10 2013
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Exchange Square, Manchester

Thursday 10th January 2013, 9.40am (day 504)

Exchange square, 10/1/13

Have been kind of saving this one for a day like today – a full-on hectic scramble from meeting to meeting where I barely had time to sit down let alone take photos. But here are the seats on Exchange Square to provide an abstract. (One irritating bit of litter, that I noticed too late, has been cropped out…)

Off to a new country tomorrow: first ever visit to sub-Saharan Africa, as I’m going to Kenya. 3.15 am alarm call coming up…

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