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Leicester City Festival 2019 - Highlights

A look a a selection of the acts and performers at Leicester`s annual City Festival. Now a firm highlight of the summer the city festival features performances from a number of touring groups and has a theme each year, 2019`s theme was "out of this world" to coincide with the Apollo 11 50th anniversary and featured aliens, Super Heroes and Robots among other things.

Turbine 2.0

Turbine 2.0 is a follow up to my previous film Turbine and once again features the wind turbines at Low Spinney Wind farm. The Turbines are now fully operational and can be seen turning at their stately place silhouetted against the deep orange setting sun. Setting off around 5:30pm with the light slowly fading we where in a race against the clock to capture the wind turbines silhouetted against the setting sun. I rushed to set up my tripod and started to film, the blades of the turbines ceaselessly turning in the field alongside me. The sun, now a large orange disk hanging in the sky, started to illuminate the underside of the low level clouds and plane trails that criss crossed the sky above. The Turbines where bathed in an orange glow as they spun rooted to their base, facing the sunset and majestic in their stature. A few moments later and the large disk of the sun dipped below the horizon and I stopped filming, unlike the turbines who were all the time turning never slo...

A Decade of Sculpture In The Garden

This video filmed by me features the annual Sculpture In The Garden exhibition at the University of Leicester Botanical gardens, This year marks a decade of the exhibition and this years looks to be the best yet with a number of artists exhibiting from Italy, France, the United States and Germany as well as from across the UK. The exhibition runs from Sunday 26th June to Sunday 30th October 2011 and features work from past years alongside new pieces. Normal Botanic Garden opening times are 10am-4pm Monday-Friday all year (except for the Christmas-New Year period) and on Saturday and Sunday from the third weekend in March to the second weekend in November. Admission is normally free except for special Open Days. The entrance to the Garden is in Glebe Road, Oadby, Leicester.

Turbine - The Low Spinney Wind Farm

Turbine - The Low Spinney Wind Farm is a short film about the newly created wind farm situated between the villages of Ashby Magna, Gilmorton and Dunton Bassett, near Lutterworth in Leicestershire. The wind farm is expected to be fully operational by mid-summer. Filmed at sunset the silhouettes of the 125m high turbines look strange but also perfectly in tune with their natural surroundings. click below to see stills taken at the farm