Life's been a bit hectic over the last few days. I've just landed quite a substantial new contract through my webdev business which is going to take up most of my time over the next few months, but fortunately it doesn't start for another month or so. So I plan to shoot as much as I can over the next few weeks.

Last night I went to the opening of a new exhibition at Cube gallery in Manchester. The project was title "Unnoticed" and was produced by the Contemporary Photography Foundation Degree students at Mid-Cheshire College. There were displays from 15 different students ranging from Laura Towersey's rather surreal "Secrets" through to Luke Cannon's excellent set of portraits titled "Childhood Fears". These students have clearly put a significant amount of time and effort into these works, I would recommend that you go and check them out.

I have been submitting work to a few competitions over the last few days. The primary one being the Landscape Photographer of the Year sponsored by Visit Britain, Fuji, Calumet and the Sunday Times amongst others as there's a £10,000 prize at stake. To be honest, it's not so much the money I'm interested in (though it would be nice!) rather the exposure to be gained from doing well in a competition of this stature. Hey I've got nothing to lose other than the few quid it costs to enter. I've quite a few others planned to enter of the next few months. I'll post details of where you can enter yourselves over the next week or so.

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I had some spare time today, so I nipped over to the Imperial War Museum North in Salford Quays to catch the penultimate day of the George Rodger Exhibiton. What an amazing exhibition. and what lengths the war photographers of the time had to go through? Truly fantastic work, but as its last day is tomorrow, you'll be hard pushed to catch it.

"Born in Hale, Cheshire, George Rodger (1908 – 1995) was a largely self-taught and uniquely gifted photographer and pioneering photojournalist who never lost his concern and sympathy for the victims of conflict. As a photographer for Life Magazine during the Second World War, George Rodger travelled to most major war zones, photographing what he saw for a distant audience in America. Starting in wartime London, George Rodger’s photographs record his personal journey and growing horror of war as much as the course of the war itself. After his experiences, especially at Belsen concentration camp, George Rodger sought to abandon war photography. However he could not escape the conflicts of the post war era entirely. His coverage of Palestinian refugees and the Mau Mau in Kenya is as poignant and powerful as that of the London Blitz. Contact reveals how the challenges and changing nature of photojournalism in wartime shaped George Rodger’s work and experience. It examines his lasting legacy both as a photographer and as co-founder, together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David (Chim) Seymour, of the legendary Magnum photographic cooperative agency 60 years ago. "

For more info on the exhibition click here

To see more of George Rodger's work, go here.