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Showlight 2001 contd.
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Hello Mr. Baker
I'm a bagpipe player from Canada and I came
across your wonderful website one night while I was browsing for pictures
of pipe bands on the web, when I came across your pics of the pipe band
that you took i was very please with the quality of them. I had a
question for you though, which pipe band is that in those pictures?
Answer:
'Mike
Pendlowski, who lit the event, is pretty certain that it was the ‘Lothian
& Borders Police Pipe Band’.
Thanks to Northern
Light for that.
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| As we trouped contentedly out onto the steps of the
great mansion, there was one last and most moving surprise in store for us. Out
of the distant darkness could be heard a lone piper, picked out by a single
spotlight. 300 people fell silent as the music grew, the spotlights widened to
show a full pipe band which was slowly marching towards us. The sound of that
wonderful pipe music echoing off the buildings behind us made the hair stand up
on the back of your neck. The very essence of that proud Nation was with us in
sound and vision. |
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The pipe Major marched forward to ask Chairman Watt
(with Scottish ancestral connections, he assured me) to ask permission to
dismiss. “Permission Granted” was the reply, and the band marched and played
off stage left to applause and considerable appreciation from all present. Thank
you Strand Lighting for sponsoring the gala dinner, with the help of Northern
Light. |
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Ian Davidson took this magnificent shot |
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Wednesday morning dawned sunny and even warmer, if
this is global warming, long may it continue. A wide variety of topics, all
interesting, but for me, the star was John Rayment and his Sydney 2000 Olympic
Ceremonies: Just another show, sort of… His dry humour combined with the
mind-boggling statistics of lighting such a truly Mega Event. Twelve Directors
and no script, was a recurring theme. |
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Tristran Oliver entertained us with his DOP work on
Chicken Run, Ian Mac Dow (born in Scotland, sneaked out at two and a half years
old) with Lights, camera, Action… Whoops.
And then, all too soon, it was time for closing
speeches, and the long road home. |
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