Eye On Manchester blog by Aidan O’Rourke Tutor Photographer

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Neil Roland, Didsbury-based photographer and author has written a piece about me for the South Manchester Reporter. It appeared in the edition that came out on Thursday 22 October 2009.

It’s also on the South Manchester Reporter website. Click here to go to the page

Neil wrote the article following a long chat we had in which I tracked my entire career from school and university to the present.

I was honest and open about my failures as well as successes.

He also mentions my wife Ann and her Filipino grocery shop Adele’s Superstore.

It’s a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece of writing from Neil, whose column appears on a regular basis in the South Manchester Reporter.

Neil is a photographic artist and has also written a novel set in Didsbury.

Here’s the link to the online version of the article.

http://tinyurl.com/ykgmyn5.

This morning I did my third monthly television interview on the Channel M Breakfast Show. The topic of conversation was the BDP building and Piccadilly Basin.

To find out more about Channel M, Manchester’s dedicated tv station, go to www.channelm.co.uk.

I have taken a high resolution dusk cityscape of Manchester from the roof of the MEN Arena.

It’s a commercial job for a high profile client. I can’t display the photograph, as it’s exclusive. More to be revealed in due course.

Here’s a photo I took just after the shoot, looking south west towards Salford.