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Ah, a great view... with a load of bins and rubbish in the foreground. Lovely. That aside, I really liked the small incline towards the Beetham Tower, flanked by these two brick buildings. I've always been partial to those big windows in the older factory-like blocks (on the left).
By this time the city was pretty quiet; a few cars drove by and the odd pedestrian could be seen in the distance but we were otherwise on our own.
Smiley faces waiting for 2021 to happen on Gloucester Street, Manchester; along the road from the derelict ‘Hotspur Press’ building..! While 'Rainman' strikes again....!
Completed in 2006 at a cost of £150 million, the Beetham Tower in Manchester, is the highest building in Manchester, the tallest residential building in Europe and the 7th tallest building in England with over 525,000 square feet of space. The Beetham Tower is 168.87 metres high, has a total of 47 floors and is home to the Manchester Hilton Hotel, 219 luxury apartments and 16 penthouses.
This photograph was taken during the Olympic GB Team parade on 17th October 2016, hence the helicopter circling above.
More about the Beetham Tower is at www.beethamtower.org/manchester/beetham-tower-manchester....
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The trip was coming to an end. After a few days of photography and tourism I was worn out. As usual there were a few things left on the list to photograph but those could be left to next time.
Up the stairs like the last shot, we found ourselves in a big old car park (not even deliberate this time!) which I think is used to access the railway. My eyes were drawn to the rather more impressive Beetham Tower though, enjoying the different coloured lights throughout the building. Not too many people were still up but I like that the time of night creates a patchwork of lights in the windows.
Beetham Tower, Manchester
First outing of the new year and a chance to meet up with Eddie for a walkabout around Manchester. Neither of us had been to Castlefield since the Flickr reccy many moons ago and to say it has declined into an eyesore with more graffiti than ever and a basin full of decrepit narrowboats and barges is disheartening considering this is a conservation area and the UK's first designated "urban heritage park" in 1982.
We soon moved on to Deansgate area, where Eddie posted an excellent image of the staircase leading from street level to the upper Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop. My offering is of the Beetham Tower, or rather a microcosm of modern life in Manchester. I've just been watching Chris Packham's personal insight into the world's population from last night ,bluntly titled... 7.7 Billion People and Counting.
I thought of this image from Saturday, which in my mind illustrates, the direction we are all taking. I will be interested in your views if you watched it.
Something a little different from the norm a night panorama of Manchester taken a while back, shot at around 500mm (exif is totally wrong) the image was constructed from 54 seperate images ranging from 30 seconds exposure time down to 1 second, blended together then broken down into 9 individual files and from there then stitched together as a panorama in PTGui.
The scene is absolutely huge with the view ranging from Manchester City's Ethihad Stadium on the left far out past the Trafford Center and M60 ring road out to the right.
While we were here we had the pleasure of 2 very curious fox cubs out on their nightly hunt for food.
The issues with my hard drive last week have thankfully been solved and I managed to resue all the images off there safe and sound which was a great relief! somehow it just started working again when plugged into a laptop, think I've dodged a bullet there, I've replaced it anyway, not taking any chances.
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Castlefield, Manchester
This is my last posting for a couple of weeks or three as off on my hols with my good wife Mrs R a.k.a. Tripod_Carrier. It's been a great 18 months on Flickr for me... I've come across some fantastic images taken by really talented photographers (some who I have met up with) who have inspired me to keep taking pictures and to improve my own photostream. Only this week I passed the 750,000 views mark - I know this is small fry to many of you but your favs, comments and feedback have been most welcome and appreciated, including the funny ones (you know who you are but keep them coming!!!).
I've dabbled on Facebook, Twitter and my own website, but Flickr has been my source for inspiration and advice so once again many thanks to everyone who's visited my stream and taken the time to view and comment on my efforts.
See you all in a few weeks....
Last time I came across this lovely little house, we had walked along the canalside, where I took "Should I Leave My Place Of Safety?". I didn't get a particularly good shot of this place back then, so I returned to have another go. I'm much happier with it this time.
Once again it was very quiet here- although I imagine it's absolutely heaving on a weekend.
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I kind of didn't want to post this because of the repetition of the Beetham Tower building from the last image, but I just liked the composition and lighting in a different way from the previous image...
378 Deansgate, Manchester, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1963-1967 Zeiss Ikon 100652 Contessamat SBE,
Carl Zeiss Tessar 2,8/50,
Gossen H256A Digipro F,
Ilford Delta 400 Professional 35mm,
ISO 400/27°,
1/125, ƒ/5,6, infinity focus,
Heliopan 1022 Black and white filter orange 22 E 27
Castlefield, Manchester
For the few... I did a pre-recky tour to find a few interesting locations for a shoot with some fellow Flickr Togs. The actual recky got cut short on account of our typical Manchester weather intervening before we got the chance of a proper look around Castlefield.
I've been looking for something to upload other than my Forth Rail Bridge shots when I came across this, already processed and ready to go... yes I know it's another bridge!
This was an image I did last week, thinking I was going to have a leisurely stroll taking some pics around Manchester, 10 minutes after I took this, the thunder and lighting started, forcing a hasty retreat back to the car...
Thanks goes to my buddy Tim, wouldn't have found this spot without him.
Another spin into town, I was intending to take a decent moon and cityscape shot, but just couldn't resist this one. The towers location on the edge of the city makes it a perfect focal point for shots like this. I will come out of the shadows and venture into the city properly some day.
Straight out of camera, no post processing.
The Great Northern Warehouse, Manchester
The Great Northern Warehouse is the former railway goods warehouse of the Great Northern Railway in Manchester city centre, England, which was refurbished into a leisure complex in 1999. The building is at the junction of Deansgate and Peter Street. It was granted Grade II* listed building status in 1974.
The warehouse was built to be fireproof with a steel frame on a rectangular plan, 267 feet long by 217 feet wide and five storeys high, with 27 windows on the east and west sides and 17 windows on the north and south ends. All four sides have friezes lettered in white brick reading "Great Northern Railway Company's Goods Warehouse". It was built above the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, and a dock beneath was constructed to allow goods to be transferred to and from canal barges via shafts and a complex system of haulage using hydraulic power. It is a "unique survival of a three-way railway goods exchange station, serving the railway, canal and road networks of the Manchester region."
The development was owned by Capital & Regional and comprised an AMC cinema, MCR235 casino, James Martin Manchester restaurant, All Star Lanes bowling alley, bar and restaurant, a Lifestyle Fitness gym, and a multi-storey car park operated by National Car Parks although I'm not too sure what still remains.
However, in 2013 it was acquired by Trilogy and Peterson Group who have been developing and implementing proposals in collaboration with Manchester City Council to bring this strategically important and historically significant site back to life.
For those that might be interested here is the link...
Completed in 2006 at a cost of £150 million, the Beetham Tower in Manchester, is the highest building in Manchester, the tallest residential building in Europe and the 7th tallest building in England with over 525,000 square feet of space. The Beetham Tower is 168.87 metres high, has a total of 47 floors and is home to the Manchester Hilton Hotel, 219 luxury apartments and 16 penthouses.
And i love it.
Once the tallest building by some margin in Manchester and a landmark visible for miles, it is slowly being joined by more high rise developments. 47 storeys high, about halfway up the building steps out, from the ground to the start of the cantilever is Hilton Hotel, the rest is all residential. Considering I've been in most landmark city apartment blocks, I've yet to go in....
Castlefield, Manchester
After my early morning shoot at Salford Quays with Mark Dixon we decided there was no point in hanging around and moved onto Castlefield as part of our recky meet-up with fellows togs - Eddie, Mark and Geoff. It was a gorgeous morning although the sun was pretty high in the sky but worth scouting for new locations and angles.
By the time we had walked half the route, the Manchester weather reverted to type and "chucked it down" (northern for rained hard) and the rest of the group never got to see the best of the area so this is for them.
In the background is the Beetham Tower, the main bridge is known as Merchants Bridge and the little bridge hiding the lock is Lock 92 or sometimes called Duke's Lock.