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The Recently opened Media City development at Salford Quays and the new home of the BBC outside of London.

Shot with my recently acquired M4/3rd's system and playing around with the 14-45mm lens.
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I shot this during a training session for a Charity football match in Salford in aid of the Fire-Fighters Charity. The idea was to capture the Fire-Fighters alter ego's, although as usual, there wasn't much interest in my idea and I really had to work on getting a shot that I thought worked.

Two SB-900's fired either side of the camera @ 45° for fill.

In memory of Bernie (back row 4th from left)

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Initially uploaded a couple of nights ago and deleted as I thought it was a fairly nondescript portrait, although I did and still like it, so it's back!
Taken on a friends birthday night out in Manchester, very low lighting late in the afternoon, but with several huge windows almost directly behind me giving some great catch-lights. Converted to B&W using a panchromatic filter that has added much to the skin tones, some may say too much, but I like it!

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Thanks Alan.

A view across the Manchester ship Canal on a cold misty morning last December, during a cold spell that left the canal partly frozen over.
Catching up on some shots I took earlier in the year that were forgotten about due to one thing or another.
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I've not been out with my camera for a while, so Tuesday last week provided a good opportunity to get out in the good weather for a few hours.
This is the new footbridge connecting the south (Trafford Park) side of Salford Quays to the new Media City Development in Salford.
The new bridge is (apparently) an asymmetric cable stayed bridge with a main span of just 65m, keeping the publics right of navigation on the canal open.
Media City meanwhile, will provide new offices and recording studios for the BBC in the northwest as well as sharing studios with Granada and other independent media producers from around the area.