Some of you who read parts of my Blog (and/or know me in real life) may know I like Technology, Big Toys, and Landscapes; Well imagine combining them all.
On my Birthday Ian, Manda, Dave and I were up in the Canadian City of Niagara, watching the falls, (from both the land and from a Boat). since we were only there for one day we thought we really should stay there till after dark and watch the falls being lit up.
as we were eating in a local eatery place, a group of people were gathered marking the campaign to stop domestic violence, and as part of there publicity, they turned the falls a Purple colour.
One of the guys we spoke to said that we could have a go at playing with the lights if we went up to the door on the back of the little tower beside the restrant, so up we went, Manda got nominated for the job of bouncing at the person who opened the door,
After being let in and shown the control panel and given a basic run down of how to change the lights we were left with 21 4kW discharge bulbs (each is 390 million candle power)
Unfortunately changing the waterfalls to Red, White and Blue strips proved to be too much of a challenge (Union Flag Colours).
Hopefull Ian will put some photos up and i will be able to link to them.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Indeed I have. My account of the lighting up Niagara is at http://www.spinneyhead.co.uk/2007/10/we-lit-up-niagara.php and my Niagara pictures are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spinneyhead/sets/72157602313323784/.
There’s at least one panorama to be done yet and maybe one or two to be made out of sets of photos I crudely bracketed. They’ll go up after I’ve finished putting up all the other photos from the trip.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Though I don’t know why that should prove so much of a challenge two of them are the same colour’s as the Canadian flag!