Madingley Cemetery

These pictures were taken at the American Cemetery in Madingley on a trip out with Ann and Phil Miles (http://pin-sharp.blogspot.com/ and http://philmilesblog.blogspot.com/) as part of a tutoring session. We were the only ones there for most of the time and the grey winter lighting really brought out the mood of the place.

 Many thanks again to Ann and Phil, I had a great day and really learnt a lot.

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....

Scribblings

Living in Manchester, there's not a whole lot of countryside or wildlife to photograph (though I'm probably not looking hard enough). There is, however, loads of street art and graffiti, some of which is just vandalism but some is really interesting. So this topic of graffiti may become a running theme (see 'Cow Rustling' back in October), but here's a few more that I've seen on my route around the city.