reflections Archives - Page 23 of 26 - Ed O'Keeffe Photography

13 October 200728 May 2017

Millennium Bridge, Salford Quays

I would love to one day witness a large vessel sail under this bridge; with the bridge lifted up high it would look very interesting. If I keep going back again and again eventually it will probably happen. This photograph was taken on the Trafford side of the quays and I am really annoyed with myself for not getting a better photograph (yes it was a great day with nice blue sky) but the bridge itself is in shadow! I made myself post it though because this evening I had a very interesting instant messenger conversation with reader Jess and she told me that this bridge has a special meaning for herself and her partner. Also, she found my website by searching on Google for pictures of Salford Quays so I thought I would add to my collection of photos from here. I hope you like it.

9 October 200728 May 2017

Detroit Bridge, Salford Quays

Readers Ben and Jess were right! The previous photograph was the Detroit Bridge in Salford Quays. Strangely enough, I never knew it was called the Detroit Bridge, but I am glad somebody did. I have now been researching it in more depth and found it was originally a railway bridge and it wasn’t always in its current location. Sadly I couldn’t find out where it used to be, but Salford Quays isn’t too big to be able to work out a couple of possible previous locations.

My 24 hour experiment is over and three people commented, which is one more than I had hoped for! Meaning that 1% of my visitors in the last 24 hours commented. I hope to do this again when my visitor numbers are ten times what they are now, maybe 30 people will comment then! I’m still blown away by the fact somebody actually knew the name of the bridge, let alone where it was and that it was even a bridge. Thanks to everyone who commented, and thanks for reading everyone who didn’t. Normal service will resume tomorrow.

8 October 200728 May 2017

Reflections of Detroit Bridge, Salford Quays

Now the blog is driving more traffic and gaining more readers I wanted to do a little experiment. I hope to do more things like this and work out new techniques based on the feedback I receive. Can you work out where this photograph was taken? Or simply what it was taken of? The reflections seemed to make a photograph on its own so here it is. The non reflected subject of the above photo has been published previously on the blog. If you have any ideas then please comment in the comments section below. Tomorrow I will publish a photo of what we are looking at clearly but for now, it is you to you to guess. There are no prizes for commenting, only my thanks but in future I hope to be able to give away prizes to my readers. Looking forward to reading what you think this photo shows?!

6 October 200728 May 2017

Red Ship in the Albert Docks, Liverpool

As promised in yesterday’s post I did go down to Manchester Piccadilly train station and I did get on the first train I saw. I ended up at Liverpool Lime Street station. I have been wanting to photograph Liverpool for years, waiting for a nice day but always finding I was busy or had other plans. The Albert Docks were a particular focal point for the days picture taking, and although other areas were explored, I kept coming back to the docks. The above photograph shows a red ship, which on closer inspection was called “Planet” but it appeared to have the name faded or half removed. Strictly speaking the ship isn’t in the Albert Dock itself but rather in Dukes Dock. The whole area of docks seems to get referred to as the Albert Docks. So I now have some interesting Liverpool and Salford Quays photographs to share with you.