Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

Touring various locations across the country The Underwater Photographer of the Year interactive exhibition came to the Fosse Park Shopping Park, bringing multiple amazing images to visitors and shoppers alike. Regardless of whether visitors had made a trip to see the exhibition or had come across it whilst shopping they where treated to photography that captured the underwater world in all it`s colourful, vibrant & delicate beauty. The exhibition also had an Augmented Reality (AR) element for those using the Artivive app offering related videos & more for some of the photographs. My film takes a quick look at the exhibition which (at time of writing) is in place till October 6th and is free to see. All photos etc copyright of their various owners.

The annual Scout Gala held by the 1st Newbold Verdon Scout Troop took place in September at the Newbold Verdon Primary School. Starting with a parade though the village lead by the Whetstone CLCGB Marching Band leading visitors to the Newbold Primary School on Dragon Lane, where the High Sheriff Of Leicestershire formally opened the event. Alongside many stalls there where train rides on the There and Back Light Railway, entertainment in the arena sponsored by the ever popular Liberteas Coffee Shop (who also had a stall offering delicious cakes etc), Classic Cars a fun dog show and Horticultural show too making for an event which offered something for the whole family. 

The Victory Show, one of the UK`s biggest wartime re-enactment shows, returned to Foxlands Farm in Cosby Leicestershire. The event now in it's 19th year sees re-enactment and Living History groups from across the country meet at the farm just outside the village of Cosby in Leicestershire and has grown over the years to include an airshow, an area of woodland and more, alongside the main encampment to bring to life and give visitors an idea of combat in theatres of war in varied areas across the world. My film gives viewers a look around the event and the various 'scenes' by the groups from engineers erecting a telephone system as a marching band passes, to a Jeep suspended from a crane !.  The action moves to the Battlefield where tanks, soldiers and all types of military hardware, including a flypast from a Lancaster Bomber, from the era recreate scenes seen across the globe during wartime, after the battle we are reminded that although this is a staged display battles li...