Crikey... have I been busy or what? Yes I have been busy.
Since my last post we've had the steam 150 gala which has been an enormous success all round. It seems that we had more visitors than ever before at such an event and that they spent more money and hopefully had a better time than ever before.
In the lead up to the main event Welsh Pony was unveiled in her new Green livery. This is the same as Linda and Blanche as the tender which now belongs to Linda was the one most recently attached to Pony, although I gather that there was an amount of swapping about under the old company. I'm not convinced about the colour, to be honest but it was nice to see her looking looked after.
Since my last post we've had the steam 150 gala which has been an enormous success all round. It seems that we had more visitors than ever before at such an event and that they spent more money and hopefully had a better time than ever before.
In the lead up to the main event Welsh Pony was unveiled in her new Green livery. This is the same as Linda and Blanche as the tender which now belongs to Linda was the one most recently attached to Pony, although I gather that there was an amount of swapping about under the old company. I'm not convinced about the colour, to be honest but it was nice to see her looking looked after.
This is the little advert I made from this.
The four Englands looked brilliant together and the sun shone too.
The gala weekend began slowly on Friday with a variety of trains giving a taste of what was to come. By the end of the four days I was exhausted and had over 8 hours of footage which I spent all of yesterday uploading from the camera to the computer. Not only did I use the main camera but I had the old camera with me which I used to capture alternative views on a couple of occasions, most notably clamped onto Blanche, pointed at the motion during the Queens of the hill run. This produced some exciting footage which will cut together with the main camera footage which I shot from the footplate. I also had the second unit out and about; i.e. Chris Parry and his stills camera which takes HD video. He took some nice shots of a few things but here is a still he took of me on Saturday (I think).
He also got a short section of video of me in action with the camera rattling along in the tender of Prince which I will put on with the balance of the pictures and a youtube edit of the weekend. The editing will take a long while and there will definitely be a stand alone DVD of the event as there is so much to show.
Just a few of the locations I've been to over the weekend. Now I'm having a couple of days off and then its back to the editing...
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