
This one was taken from our back yard, the sunset was producing the red colour on the back of the houses, so I took several shots varying composition and trying to get the foreground as black as possible.
This shot along with the one below was shortlisted for Salford Photography Competition and both were printed onto canvas and displayed in the tourist information centre inside
The Lowry, which was cool (apart from the printers going out of their way apparently to lighten the black area of the above image making it look less impressive/contrasting imo)... although I didn't win a prize, all the short listed entrants got to keep the canvas prints of their photos, which will make a couple of nice Christmas presents for my family.

This is the other image chosen, it was taken at the
Flickr Manchester Group's Salford Quays meet up, and was taken on a whim rather than carefully composed and taken.. and that's how I like it.