Even the city can be beautiful

When you think of beautiful scenery, you tend to think of roiling hills or meadows or lakes and few would think of the towns and cities most of us live in.

However, cityscapes can be as visually exciting and pleasing as the pastoral scenes more commonly associated with landscape photography. One is not necessarily better than the other but different. All it takes is a little imagination.

Here are a few photographs taken in the area immediately around Salford Quays