Bupa 10K

The Bupa 10km took place in Manchester on the 15th of May and I was lucky that the 1km and 9.5km posts were just outside our flat. It did mean we got woken up at 7am by the outdoor broadcast people doing their sound checks, but was a great opportunity to get down and take some photos of the runner, both fresh faced at the start of the race and those flagging towards the end. Points for spotting the famous pack leader in the Men's Elite group...

Playing with Fire

Manchester PhotoSoc put on a great workshop last night playing with burning steel wool in the Castlefield Basin.

Chinese New Year

Christopher and I went to see the new year celebrations in China Town just over a week ago. It was a bit of a grey day so some of the exposures were a bit long and there's been a bit of motion blur, but there was a great atmosphere to the whole event.

Peekaboo!

Hopefully more photo opportunities coming soon as the weather improves and term settles down a bit.

Manchester Cathedral

Exams are ongoing, so there still hasn't been much chance to get out and take photos, but here are a few taken before Christmas at Manchester Cathedral.

Christmas Markets

Student Protests

I got my first taste of photojournalism yesterday when I went to see the students protest against tuition fees in  Manchester yesterday. The protest was very good natured, so nobody kicked in any windows. Just on the off-chance, I'd like to thank the helpful RPS member for giving me guidance on photographing these kind of events, and where photographers stand with the police.

Castlefield in the Snow

 Finally, the snow has made it over to our side of the Pennines. I know there's been lots of pictures of Castlefield and the canals recently, but the dusting of snow and the frozen canal were beautiful this morning. It also gave me a chance to try out my new Canon FX (well, secondhand) though obviously the pictures from that are going to have to wait for the rest of the film.

Observant viewers will notice a slight change since yesterday, but snow has been falling pretty steadily since, so I went out and braved the cold for some more pictures...

PhotoSoc Castlefield Trip

These are the pictures from the recent PhotoSoc trip around Castlefield. I tried to capture different elements of the area from those in my previous Castlefield post. Let me know what you think.

P.S. Apologies, something went wrong with the formatting in the original post, and try as I may, I just can't make it work again!

Railway Arch Graffiti

Continuing the theme of graffiti, here's some taken of the scribblings on the railway arches and car park walls by Charles St. I walk past these every day on the way to university, occasionally noting additions to the bunch....