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The following is a list of all entries from the Photostories category. Noteworthy entries are filed topmost.
Love Carlisle Firework Show 2009
On Saturday 7th November I went to the Love Carlisle firework show in Bitts Park. The Love theme was chosen as part of Carlisle’s bid to become city of culture which will be awarded in 2013, a UK version of the European Capital of Culture, which was awarded to Liverpool in 2008.
Celebrations were taking place throughout Love Day culminating in the massive firework display and bonfire.
The weather held as over 2000 fireworks were fired above a huge heart shaped reconstruction of the citadel. More than 25,000 people attended the show.
Here is a photo story using sound I recorded at the event and photographs courtesy of Carlisle photography student, my younger sister, Eleanor Simpson. I edited this piece with Windows Movie Maker which can be very limiting but hopefully will give you a feeling of the atmosphere.
This was by far the best firework show I have ever seen, beating even the Pohang firework festival in South Korea which I saw in 2007.
The fire show was organised by the Black Powder Monkeys. Carlisle city council have made a real effort to attract people to their city with their bonfire nights, previously there has been an old American west theme and a pirate theme for which a giant pirate ship was built.
Carlisle main attractions are the 900 year old castle, the city wall, their Cathedral which dates back to 1122 and the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. Nearby there is the Birdoswald Roman Fort and Visitor Centre and Hadrian’s Wall.
The University of Cumbria runs a foundation degree in Performance, Festivals and Events which focuses on the creative and management aspects of events.
The Love Day and UK City of Culture award will be the subject of a radio package for my course – I’ll put up the podcast once its finished!
Halloween Costume Photostory
A short photostory of making my halloween costume just for fun – I uploaded the clip to youtube so I could post it here. Unfortunately my computer doesn’t recognise my music so I used a piece which came with photoshop.
I was one of the Baobhan Sith…
A baobhan sith (pronounced baa’-van shee) is a type of vampire in Scottish mythology.They are also known as the White Women of the Scottish Highlands.
Usually found in forests or natural settings, a baobhan sith has the form of a beautiful woman in a green dress. One version of the legend says that they have deer hooves for feet, which they keep hidden under the dress. Often several baobhan siths will appear together as a group. Legends have them seducing young men with their beauty, inviting the men to dance with them and eventually drinking their blood.
There is a certain legend in regards to the baobhan sith, where a group of young travellers stopped for the night in a small glade in the Scottish Highlands.
The weakness of the Baobhan Sith seems similar to most vampires: they cannot tolerate daylight. It also seems that they do not use fangs to draw blood; but rather they use sharp fingernails. Similar to other vampires, Baobhan Sith use seduction to gain their victims. According to legend, they arise from their graves once a year to feed, and a way to stop them from waking is to build a cairn over their grave.
A fearful female creature in Scottish Gaelic oral tradition. A kind of succubus, very dangerous and evil, she will suck dry of blood any man who takes her embrace. Distinguish from the death-presaging figure of Irish folklore, the banshee, who is known as the ban-sìth, bean-shìth, or bean sìth in Scottish Gaelic tradition
