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Well myself and 2 mates decided to go for a random road trip to Manchester to visit both Utds and Citys stadium to get a chance to practice more city shots with the camera. We left Scotland around 12am and arrived around 4pm . We stopped at a services on the way down and came across an interesting car. I heard this before i seen it coming off the motorway so we headed up for a closer look. This TVR was apparently the only car in the world acoording to the owner although i cant remember the name. It certainly looked diff to any TVR ive seen.
The M6 was also missing a few midges thanks to the ST:evil:
We arrived in Manchester and spotted a mini London eye/big wheel thing and decided to jump on for some pics. (i hate heights so my mate had the camera for this
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And how the wheel looked from a ''better'' point of view
Some of the local ''cruise'' scene certainly looked better than what Glasgow has to offer:approve:
Some shots of the surrounding buildings and scenery
First stop after leaving the city centre was to the City Of Manchester Stadium. When we first saw it from the road our jaws dropped. It really did look incredible and up close was just insane. It is such a fantastic design. So modern , clean and VERY big. Makes Parkhead seem small in comparison It was getting dark at this point so it was out with the tripod and a mess around with the settings. Comments and critisicm welcome on all pics btw. Bare in mind it was only from this point onwards i was using the tripod.
Next up was a trip across the city without a map or sat nav to find old trafford. We noticed a few pieces of ''banter'' advertised around the city highlighting the divide between the blues and the reds. One in particular that made me LOL as it was so true was . .
''How many trophys has ManCity actually won?'' and underneath there was a reply of . . ''How many ManUtd fans are actually from Manchester?'' Not quite the hatred of Celtic and Rangers up here but the divide was obvious all the same.
Now , Old trafford . . . What can i say?? This was my first time seeing it in the metal and i was lucky enough to be there at night. Like Man Citys ground , the architecture and design of the stadium was immense. Just standing looking up at the top of the white scaffolding made the knees weak. However , unlike citys ground we all felt the ''goosebumps'' outside this one. Standing at the statues and beside the Munich clock you really did feel the MASSIVE history of the club and it did feel like we were standing outside the home of the biggest football club on the planet. It was a very ''eary'' (sp) place to be and we couldnt decide if that was down to the lighting , the statues , the munich clock or just the sheer silence of the place. A place you see week in , week out on tv with 80,000 fans screaming from the stands. Very surreal!! I tried to capture all those feelings through the camera so i hope ive done it some justice.
And finally , the last stop was in Bolton before the journey North up the M6 and we decided to visit the reebok for a few final snaps. This was also a fantastic looking stadium. Smaller then the other 2 obviously but just as striking.
And this is one of the wierdest things ive ever seen or definitly captured on the camera. Notice on this pic the white light directly above the reebok in the sky. Now before taking this shot i was looking through the lense for a fair amount of time particularly concentrating on the top half structure of the stadium. There was NO planes , stars , helicopters or beems going into the sky but somehow this showed up. I dont know if you guys can zoom in on it but we have on the cameras screen and it looks VERY strange. I dont know if something went wrong with the camera or what but it certainly gave us the shivers.
If you've got this far , thanks for reading. Really was a fantastic day and its definitly helped me with the cam.
The M6 was also missing a few midges thanks to the ST:evil:
We arrived in Manchester and spotted a mini London eye/big wheel thing and decided to jump on for some pics. (i hate heights so my mate had the camera for this
)And how the wheel looked from a ''better'' point of view
Some of the local ''cruise'' scene certainly looked better than what Glasgow has to offer:approve:
Some shots of the surrounding buildings and scenery
First stop after leaving the city centre was to the City Of Manchester Stadium. When we first saw it from the road our jaws dropped. It really did look incredible and up close was just insane. It is such a fantastic design. So modern , clean and VERY big. Makes Parkhead seem small in comparison
It was getting dark at this point so it was out with the tripod and a mess around with the settings. Comments and critisicm welcome on all pics btw. Bare in mind it was only from this point onwards i was using the tripod.Next up was a trip across the city without a map or sat nav to find old trafford. We noticed a few pieces of ''banter'' advertised around the city highlighting the divide between the blues and the reds. One in particular that made me LOL as it was so true was . .
''How many trophys has ManCity actually won?'' and underneath there was a reply of . . ''How many ManUtd fans are actually from Manchester?'' Not quite the hatred of Celtic and Rangers up here but the divide was obvious all the same.
Now , Old trafford . . . What can i say?? This was my first time seeing it in the metal and i was lucky enough to be there at night. Like Man Citys ground , the architecture and design of the stadium was immense. Just standing looking up at the top of the white scaffolding made the knees weak. However , unlike citys ground we all felt the ''goosebumps'' outside this one. Standing at the statues and beside the Munich clock you really did feel the MASSIVE history of the club and it did feel like we were standing outside the home of the biggest football club on the planet. It was a very ''eary'' (sp) place to be and we couldnt decide if that was down to the lighting , the statues , the munich clock or just the sheer silence of the place. A place you see week in , week out on tv with 80,000 fans screaming from the stands. Very surreal!! I tried to capture all those feelings through the camera so i hope ive done it some justice.
And finally , the last stop was in Bolton before the journey North up the M6 and we decided to visit the reebok for a few final snaps. This was also a fantastic looking stadium. Smaller then the other 2 obviously but just as striking.
And this is one of the wierdest things ive ever seen or definitly captured on the camera. Notice on this pic the white light directly above the reebok in the sky. Now before taking this shot i was looking through the lense for a fair amount of time particularly concentrating on the top half structure of the stadium. There was NO planes , stars , helicopters or beems going into the sky but somehow this showed up. I dont know if you guys can zoom in on it but we have on the cameras screen and it looks VERY strange. I dont know if something went wrong with the camera or what but it certainly gave us the shivers.
If you've got this far , thanks for reading. Really was a fantastic day and its definitly helped me with the cam.
