Heaton Hall Manchester seen from a hot air balloon 14 Sep 11:29 AM (last month)
DESCRIPTION I took this photo on the 17th of June 2006 from a hot air balloon. I was commissioned to take photos by a sadly short-lived regional newspaper The North West Enquirer. It was a rare chance to take an aerial photo of the hall from a relatively low altitude. The EQUIPMENT Fuji Finepix DSLR […]
Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain Albert Square Manchester at dusk 18 Mar 1:20 AM (7 months ago)
DESCRIPTION This is the Jubilee fountain in Albert Square Manchester with the town hall and the background, captured at dusk. As reported by the Manchester history.net website the fountain was commissioned for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria and completed in time for the celebrations in 1897. It was later moved to Heaton Park and […]
Manchester Jubilee Fountain flowing water and silhouetted shapes 18 Mar 1:07 AM (7 months ago)
DESCRIPTION Taken in the earliest years of producing my website Eyewitness in Manchester, this is another image captured on film using a prime lens which throws the background nicely out of focus. I was interested by the sight of the flowing water, with the silhouetted shapes behind. To freeze the movement of the water I […]
Birchfields Park Manchester in snowy weather 18 Mar 1:00 AM (7 months ago)
DESCRIPTION Every year, if there is snowy weather, I like to photograph familiar places in the city transformed by the presence of snow on the ground in the trees and covering landmarks. This is Birchfields Park Manchester, a favourite park of mine that I have visited at all times during the year. A feature of […]
Manchester city centre from Portland Tower 1998 captured on Ektachrome 17 Mar 8:13 AM (7 months ago)
DESCRIPTION I took this photo on Kodak Ektachrome colour slide film in mid-1998. It’s taken from the top of Portland Tower on Portland Street Manchester looking towards the town hall clocktower with the buildings of Chinatown in the foreground and Salford in the distance. The clouds were actually from another photograph I took from the […]
New York Times Square night photo taken on slide film ‘jazzed up’ in Photoshop 17 Mar 7:26 AM (7 months ago)
DESCRIPTION This is one of the first photos I took on my first SLR film camera, which I bought near Times Square in New York. I took this night view of Times Square but the original was much darker as the Kodachrome 64 slide film is very slow. Many years later I ‘perked up’ the […]
Manchester Ancoats Mills 1998 before renovation 16 Mar 9:59 AM (7 months ago)
DESCRIPTION This is the view from Jersey Street looking towards Royal Mills around 1998, before they were renovated. One of the main reasons why I take photographs is to document the changing city and to keep a record of how places looked before renovation. The car park on the right is now occupied by a […]
Video: Manchester Building Boom 2024 seen from train tram & drone 22 Sep 2024 11:45 AM (last year)
This video is the most viewed of my recent AidanEyewitness videos. It’s presents a view of the building projects across central Manchester from the point of view of a train, tram and drone. At the beginning, I use a small section of one of my favourite songs: “I am the Passenger”, by Iggy Pop. The […]
AidanEyewitness video: Stockport Interchange Nearly Finished | Greater Manchester Building Boom 3 Mar 2024 1:14 AM (last year)
Friday the 1st of March, 2024 by AidanEyewitness / Aidan O’Rourke YouTuber Content Creator In this update of AidanEyewitness, we take one final look at the construction of Stockport’s Transport Interchange around 3 weeks before it schedule opening on the 17th of March 2024. I have taken photos and video of the construction at various […]