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Red Arrows Mini Display

An unexpected mini display from the red arrows at their base RAF Scampton . The Red Arrows perform their trade mark fan that usually ends their displays they had been scheduled to do a flypast with the Avro Vulcan but that had been grounded earlier that day at the RAF Waddington air show.

Saltzburg In A Day

Day trips don`t usually involve getting on a plane or boarding a cable car 1,972 metres (6,469 feet) to the summit of an alp. 3am and I’ve got a 50 euros in my wallet (travel money) and return tickets on a Ryan Air plane to the Austrian city of Salzburg birthplace of Mozart and known to many as the place where a nun named Maria sang about some lonely goats and hills that where alive with the sound of music, Soon those very same hills (or more correctly mountains) would be towering before me as I stepped from the plane I had boarded at 6am at Stanstead Airport. We collect the hire car from Hertz (nectar points), and set off into town W.A Mozart airport is on the outskirts of the city and although everything in Salzburg is in easy walking distance we had plans to explore the alpine villages surrounding the city. Once in the city we park the car in a car park (situated inside a mountain!) and climb to the Salzburg Fortress (Festung Hohensalzburg). The fortress was used in the Sound of...

Custom USB Stick

I Recently stood on my USB stick and broke the casing looking around my room my eyes fell upon a small fish shaped sushi sauce dispenser with a little bit of work and paint this soon became a new and custom casing for my perfectly usable USB stick!

Lion Dance In Blaby

Just posted a video from last night showing a traditional Chinese New Year Lion dance preformed at the double dragon restaurant in Blaby the dance started with the lighting of a set of very loud firecrackers and then featured a traditional drum beat accompanying two dancers dressed in a chinese lion costume. (Apology's for the bad video quality I had to film using my mobile phone and enlarge it from a small 3gp file for posting on Youtube.)

Rest In Peace Tony Hart

Just found out Tony Hart has died, I grew up on his shows and its successors HART-BEAT, SMART etc these programs formed my early interest in art and design and have given me a life long interest in the subject Thanks Tony you will be greatly missed by all. and for my own little tribute im going to turn on Left Bank Two and spend some time remembering him.

Tilt and Shift, Shift and Tilt

just discovered the world of Tilt shift photos and had a go with some of my own photos this is one of the entrance gate houses in parc guell Barcelona

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Welcome to Leigh984 on this blog I feature video photos text and just about anything that I create and will act as a sort of behind the scenes for my creative output on sites such as Flickr and youtube