University Football Week 4

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Rochdale Town v Atherton Collieries

North West Counties League. One of the last reasonably warm days wiyth low slanting sunlight.

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University Football Week 3

Mixed weather which included dark overcast skies and brilliant sunshine. Freezing one moment then sweating the next!

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Rochdale Town v Cheadle Town

North West Counties Challenge Cup.

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University Sports 2

More football from the University of Manchester Leagues. Wet, wet and wet.

 

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Last days of summer

You can feel it in the air. On a couple of occassions recently I've been on my way to a shoot and noticed changes in plants - snapped a few which are here. Something different!

Manchester University Sports - Football week 1

Photos from the University Sports Leagues - and the football league started today.

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Chadderton v Abbey Hey, League Cup

Blistering hot day and Chadderton go through to the second round.

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FA Vase first qualifying round...

 Chadderton take on Alsager Town in the first round of the current competition.

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Rochdale Town v Irlam

North West Counties League, and a dull and heavily overcast day. Left here and went to the Feel Good festival - see below, meant a long days shooting - but an enjoyable one.

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Rochdale Feelgood Festival

In spite of the rain, fantastic evening.
Badly Drawn Boy

 Frankie and the Heartsrings
















Ellen and the Escapades

Manchester Platform 4

Just over a week ago my beloved home city was trashed. Today I made a visit to see how things had changed in that week. What a fantastic afternoon. Platform 4 were having their annual festival and it was a great atmosphere. Where else would you see an all male deaf dance group, mannequins piled high as performance art and Eastern dance, all of them watched and applauded by proud and enthusiastic Mancs. So many fantastic sights so no apologies about the number of shots here. Great day.

More published work

This was taken at the World Lacrosse Championships in Manchester last year.

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Rochdale Town v Nelson

First home game of the season for Rochdale Town. Evening match so light faded in second half but managed to shoot much later than in the past thanks to the D7000.

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Chadderton v Abbey Hey

First game of the new season in North West Counties and great to be back.

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Pre- Season Friendly Chadderton v Hyde United

This was the first time I've tried the D7000 out at an evening game using floodlights. Since the reviews rave about its low-light handling capabilities, thought this was the perfect chance to put the claims to the test - and I was not dissapointed. Some of these shots were taken solely under floods with no ambient light available. Whilst grain is inevitably high, these shots were taken without NR settings applied at the higher end ISO. Impressive!

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