I've finally got round to taking some pics around Manchester City Centre, in fact about 200 of them. Instead of posting them in all the relevant threads I'll just stick them all on here. These are posted in the same order of which I took them so you've got a rough idea of the route I took. i only had 3 hours spare so it was a bit of a rush job.

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I'll post the rest up tomorrow :)

Good shots for a 'rush' job smiley......

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I'm about halfway through now. I'll post the rest up later :)

And Manchester wonders why it never got the Olympics?
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What a disgrace.

I'm sure there's nothing like that in that there London.

That's why they got it

And Manchester wonders why it never got the Olympics?
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What a disgrace.

lol...what a "great" reason....

if that would be a reason to get not the olympics, the olympic games wouldnt exist.

tell my one city in the world wich doesnt have areas like this.....ok..maybe a llittle town in the western of australia not ;-)

These are great Smiley!

Views from the Arndale car park have certainly evolved, I'm going back up there asap now. :yes:

Great pic's Smiley,,i love this one

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Who's the guy on top of Arndale waving?? Something really needs to be done about the cladding on that tower. Some great photo's from angles I've not seen before, and some less than flattering photo's (not you taking them, the subject being viewed).

Still agree with Olli - every city has it's unkempt area's.

Olli's mob should have dropped just a few more bombs on Manchester :jk:

really very good pics of my favourite city :-)

Gruß Olli, schön, dass Du hier vorbeischaust!

Every city does indeed have its unkempt areas. Even Sydney, which arguably held the best Olympics ever, offers a delightful area called Kings Cross, the likes of which has never graced Manchester's street scene, thankfully.

Cheers for your comments everyone.....here are the rest :)

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Ey Smiley this one is great enter it in the photo competion.

Cheers for all the pics youve found some angles that ive not seen before,and ive lived here 3cough years :)

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^^^^^

That's all the city centre ones, they are the result of a 3 hour dash around the city on Saturday morning. Next time I'm up in Manchester I'll take more time to get some better shots. I've still got a few more pics to post, they were taken on the Sunday from Hartshead Pike near Oldham, I'll post those up soon.

nice, lovely grit scenes.

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oxford rd looks supirsingly alright in that pic.

Here are a few photo's from Hartshead Pike high upon the moors above Manchester

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Looking out over Oldham
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Manchester in the distance
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A couple of shots zooming in
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Looking very dark and brooding
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Look at the greenery!!
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A couple of arty farty ones for good measure
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Great pics. :)

I was gonna re-post the same one as highriser..that pic is a classic

You can't go wrong up near Hartshead Pike - stunning scenery. Been there a few times myself, I only live 20mins by bike.

You can't go wrong up near Hartshead Pike - stunning scenery. Been there a few times myself, I only live 20mins by bike.

I agree the view was amazing......I took about 15 shots while I was up there turning 360 degree's so if anyone's any good at stitching together photos to make a landscape feel free to have a go at it (I'm shite so I'm not gonna even attempt it). I'm just uploading them now so I'll post them in a bit.

You ever been down sally's hole?

You ever been down sally's hole?

I was a bit pissed on the Saturday night, but i think I would have remembered her!

Flippin' heck - :eek: it appears you've stuck up all 200-odd of the pics! That is one exhausting trekthrough there....! Brilliant! :)

Mine from Hartshead Pike will follow at some point - but they can't compete with the ones you've put up here anyway.

Those were fuckin excellent..!

Hey Martin your famous, your legs appear in the first pic of my (almost) 360 degree sweep from the Pike....anyone with stitching powers please feel free to make a panorama to die for :shocked: :shocked: :drool:

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Well, here's the ones of the actual pike I took myself. The great thing about that afternoon was the weather and lighting kept changing so dramatically almost throughout the 45 minutes we were up there - we witnessed a huge downpour over South Manchester/Stockport, and then bright sunshine in between everything, and we recorded it in the pictures as it was happening......Luckily we escaped the rain, it only spat for a few moments without ever threatening to throw it down, but it was so breezy anyway the clouds quickly dispersed to leave great areas of clear blue sky - so I took advantage of this to get as many permutations of light and shade falling on the monument as possible.

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Smiley is visible on this shot! :)

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No, it's not me failing to take the picture straight - the Pike really does lean at an angle!!

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And now, here are some views and panoramas (not as detailed as Smiley's excellent images cos my 4MP Olympus digicam is pretty crummy):


http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/MartianGray/P9250017a.jpg

This sweeping 220º view (assembled from about a dozen shots) takes in Derbyshire & Cheshire to the south, through Disley, Hazel Grove and Stockport all the way through Manchester, then to Failsworth, Oldham, Lees and beyond towards the north! The Audenshaw reservoirs are also clearly visible.

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This panorama is so long (195 degrees) it has to be split into half!
Stretching all the way from Ashton, through to Manchester and up to Oldham and beyond on this one!

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Wow, thanks lads, great pictures!

Cheers for the pics guys,i enjoyed looking at then,,,apart from the one ,with the dog taking a shit :)

Cheers for the pics guys,i enjoyed looking at then,,,apart from the one ,with the dog taking a shit :)
lol

Cheers for the pics guys,i enjoyed looking at then,,,apart from the one ,with the dog taking a shit :)


:rofl: It looks like it's doing just that an' all! But it wasn't - fucking brilliant bit of artistic serendipity there then!! :D

Wow, this has certainly been an orgy of great photos.


My favourite is the one with Martin's legs in shot. :naughty:






















:puke:

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:laugh:

LoL nice post :)

Here you go Smiley! Sorry but all the ones before the Pike couldn't be included because there was a gap between the pics. :(

http://www.eb.cx/img/ssc/pano.jpg

The last two images were also a bit out of place due to a gap. Here is an image with them excluded so you don't get a blurry bit, so part of the pano is missing:

http://www.eb.cx/img/ssc/pano2.jpg

:applause: WOO HOO!!! :)

exellent

manchester always looks 'half the world away' in them pics, almost like its surrounded by a circle of fog

The view is always like that whenever i've been up Werneth Low which is a similar distance, maybe nearer by a mile or two.
It's probably just that i choose the wrong days to go there...
Would like to see the view from "The Low" (< totally made up!) on a clear day *hint* :)

The view is always like that whenever i've been up Werneth Low which is a similar distance, maybe nearer by a mile or two.
It's probably just that i choose the wrong days to go there...
Would like to see the view from "The Low" (< totally made up!) on a clear day *hint* :)

Werneth Low is nearer by a mile or so, and it seems slightly higher. Makes a big difference. The view from here is really good in the morning on a clear day......there's less pollution and the rising sun illuminates everything not only in town, but at the university, Salford Quays and Salford. It's a really spectacular sight.

Great Stuff Earlybird. It was bloody windy up there so Martins photos and mine haven't come out too badly considering we were being constantly buffeted. Anyone who's never been up there take the time to do so, the contrasts in the landscape (you can view five counties from up there apparently) and the view and experience in general is awesome. It topped off a great weekend in Mancsville :)

A new page so I think EB's stitched together pano from Hartshead |Pike deserves to go at the top

http://www.eb.cx/img/ssc/pano2.jpg

along with this one :)
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I've been up a hill a few miles north east of Heartshead Pike, it's part of Saddleworth Moor. There's a war memorial and a group of stones called 'Pots and Pans' which are famous apparently.

This particular hill is about 200m higher than the pike so you the horizon is a few miles further away. Jodrell Bank and Liverpool were both visible! :runaway:

I've been up a hill a few miles north east of Heartshead Pike, it's part of Saddleworth Moor. There's a war memorial and a group of stones called 'Pots and Pans' which are famous apparently.

This particular hill is about 200m higher than the pike so you the horizon is a few miles further away. Jodrell Bank and Liverpool were both visible! :runaway:


^^ :yes: Indeed, that one lies above Uppermill/Greenfield a little further east and it's then one Smiley and me are planning to ascend the next time we're up there! :)

I've posted some of these photo's on the world forums as well....go and say nice things about themhttp://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=262288

I love em!

I love em!

Well go and say that on the world forums as well you drunkard :)

Does anyone mind if I create and distribute a wallpaper based on the photo of the dog? If not, any chance of it in higher resolution?

It's not THAT worthy of hype that pic. It's just a dog making out that he wants to shit all over Manchester...... what's the big deal?