I know, Loch Dunmore & The Enchanted Forest are a mile outside The Cairngorms, but I am so involved with the place & event I cannot help writing a “few” words & photos of the place. My involvement stems around the fact that 1/ I am the chairman of the Angling club that has the coarse fishing rights to fish there. 2/ I love the place for it’s peace, tranquility & quality fish. 3/ I need to protect all of this from those terrible artist who create this marvelous annual show (joke Simon & Kate). 4/ The people who bring the public this spectacular display are the greatest team you could ever want to work with. Lastly 5/ I love every minute of rowing the crews out with the pumps & lights, great exercise & fresh air.
The show is on for a month with an expected visitor number of about 80,000 & is a light & sound show, covering an area of about 3 acres.
First three shots is me trying to be all artistic, taken in daylight but with the spotlights on the leaves.
Fourth shows you how a red lamp can transform a common Silver Birch into something magical.
Five to seven are trees just flooded with light to give a great affect when it is a dark evening.
The next two are balls the size of a football lit up in various colours, going some 40feet up conifers, changing colour in time to music & giving a wonderful reflection onto the water.
The last two are of various wicker works around the display area, the mask’s maybe 4ft in size, while the whole one I deliberately showed the traffic cones in to give you some idea of it’s size. It is the entrance to the show & it just gets better as you go round. In fact this year, with its nature theme has been hailed as the best show ever.
I am sorry but more shots will follow sometime of the incredible water screen projection of animals in the centre of the main loch.
