Durham Lumiere

'The World Machine' son et lumiere Durham Cathedral

Friday 13th November 2015

Visited Durham and stayed overnight with relations, hence no post yesterday. The reason was the UK's largest light festival, the 'Durham Lumiere'. Twenty eight light-art installations around the city from using pedal power to light up a Reliant Robin (yes, I did manage it), through to light figures scaling the iconic Durham railway viaduct. They were all fantastic in their own way. But for me, the highlight was 'The World Machine', the story of cosmology from the 12th century to the present day told in a son et lumiere on the side of Durham Cathedral, with great music composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge. A cold, but wonderful evening. My image was taken part way through the performance. As well as taking some video, I used the 'Handheld night scene' mode on my camera (still on tripod), which fires off four shots continuously, at various ISO settings for one image. It works (above)!