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A few photos from Les Grands Feux du Casino du Lac-Leamy (Day 3)

August 14, 2012 @ 16:53 By: gordon Category: Fireworks, Photography

Day 3 of Les Grands Feux du Casino du Lac-Leamy took place this past Saturday and I was there taking photos. Having covered many of the “things” at the festival on Day 1, I decided to concentrate on the performers on the various stages and, of course, the fireworks. Oh hey, remember the undersea diver and mermaid act that I posted a couple of pictures of in my post about Day 1? Well, they were still there and I took this photo when the undersea diver was peering into my camera:

Nah, not creepy at all. Smile

The team from Pyro Spectaculars represented the United States with a show featuring music by The Beatles. Here are a few photos from their show. Like Day 1, the wind wasn’t cooperating at some points meaning there was a fair bit of smoke between the fireworks and the crowd, as you can see in some of the photos. Still, the show was pretty impressive and the crowd seemed to enjoy it.

If you’re interested in how to take photographs of fireworks, you might want to check out an entry I wrote last year on the subject.

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A few photos from Les Grands Feux du Casino du Lac-Leamy (Day 1)

August 09, 2012 @ 14:04 By: gordon Category: Fireworks, Photography

I headed out to Les Grands Feux du Casino du Lac-Leamy on Saturday as one of the festival’s volunteer photographers. Besides taking pictures of the fireworks, the volunteer photographers are asked to take pictures of everything else – the site, signs, volunteers, stage acts and the other entertainers on the site – to help document the festival for next year’s organizers.

One of the acts that caught my eye was an undersea-type thing with a diver in an old helmet fighting the tentacle of a giant octopus or squid and a mermaid caught in a net.

France was on-stage for the fireworks performance, represented by the team from Pyragric. The theme of the show was “Disco”, featuring music from the 1970s. The show’s designers used a lot of water bombs, which are shells that are shot into the water where they explode on landing or land and wait before exploding. They aren’t very common so it’s a real treat for spectators when they’re used.

Here are a few photos from the show itself. As you can see, there’s a fair bit of smoke in some of the images, which is due to the fact that the wind was blowing toward the crowd for much of the show. Unfortunately, there’s not much that can be done about that.