A new building in Manchester city centre that has won many architectural and engineering awards.
Despite the fact that I'm not really that happy with this photo it was published recently in 'Building' magazine which is the UK's biggest weekly glossy construction magazine.
Here's a link to Wikipedia's article on the building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Civil_Justice_Centre
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@Mike: It's always a huge buzz to see one of my photos published Mike!....it's such a dramatic building and one that should be very photogenic but I don't really feel that I've done the best that I could manage with this one particuarly at the base where it is very murky on this photo. I'm not convinced about the composition either if the truth be known! (maybe it's the tree top left blurred by the long 4 minute exposure?)
I'm not sure what you mean about the gritty feel as I don't think I added any extra grain when I processed this particular shot. There's loads of added contrast of course if that's what you mean which, as you know, can add noise as a by product of that process.
@Curly: good point!...it's very bright over there on the right isn't it.
NIKON D40
2413/10 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
18 mm (35mm equiv.)