Ed O’Keeffe Photography

Manchester Graffiti – near Oxford Road Station

This amazing piece of graffiti was seen over a wall viewed from New Wakefield Street between Great Marlborough Street and Oxford Road. This short road has three or four stunning examples of graffiti, but I think this is the most interesting example I have so far seen on the streets on Manchester. I did a project for college last year on Manchester’’s graffiti in the gas works area under the bridge that heads towards the G-Mex centre from Oxford Road station. This is just around the corner and is well worth a look as I doubt it will be there for much longer.

Manchester skyline from Student Village

The day I have been looking forward too for many years is finally upon me. I now have my own flat. After living with my parents all my life this is a very big change for me and as much as I am looking forward to it, I’m sure there is a lot I will miss. I have moved into Manchester’s Student Village in the centre of Manchester. I love the city and I have a relatively large room. Sadly, my room window looks onto a courtyard and I see nothing special despite being on the 5th floor. I did however, find this great view looking toward to city, from one of the old stair cases in the building. The photo above is just a quick snap though, as I have been running up and down stairs all day but I will be sure to revisit this and many other similar locations in the next few months. You can see down onto Oxford Road Station, across to the G-Mex centre, Beetham Tower, the town hall and many other famous landmarks of Manchester’s city centre. I hope to find more interesting view points and great city centre photos now I live right in the heart of the action.

Camera Disaster!

Another fantastic day in terms of the weather and so I had the urge to take photographs. I ended up jumping on my bike and heading down the Trans-Pennine bike trail. The section I was riding is on a former railway line, so it was straight and flat. I was heading from Altrincham out towards Lymn. I stopped a few times to take quick snaps of the beautiful countryside and the third time I stopped, the camera said “E18″ and the lens came out half way and jammed. I had heard of the E18 error on the Canon digital cameras and it is basically where the lens fails and the camera is dead. I was obviously very upset, having had this camera since February 2005 and had taken over 18,000 shoots with it. I am very fond of my trusty Canon PowerShot S60. So I cycled back to the Jessops camera shop in Altrincham and brought a can of compressed air. After blowing this down the barrel of the lens and leaving it for an hour or two, it started to work again. Touch wood it will keep working, but I am very wary about trusting this camera with very important photo-shots in the future. Below is the last photo I took before the lens packed in. Hopefully now I fixed this problem it won”t happen again.

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Manchester Graffiti – near Oxford Road Station

Manchester skyline from Student Village

Camera Disaster!

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