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LIGHT UP LANCASTER RPS CONTEMPORARY NW 8TH NOVEMBER 2024

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© Geo Batchelor LRPS

LIGHT UP LANCASTER 2024

Light Up Lancaster is an annual event held each November for a number of years as part of a wider “Light Up the North Festival.” Three RPS members and two from Poulton le Fylde Photographic Society joined the event.

The festival consists of a number of installations across the city from the Canal Basin via Sun Square to the Castle, the Storey Building, the Priory Church and back to Dalton Square where we met that evening. Here is a selection of images from our favourite venues.

MONAD In the Canal Basin area we were captivated by Monad, a light and sound installation with ever changing images projected through a water spray. Pythagoras called the circle Monad stressing that it was continuous without beginning or end.

© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Spencer Stephens

© Malcolm Birkett

© Geo Batchelor LRPS

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© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Spencer Stephens

© Spencer Stephens

© Spencer Stephens

THE DANCING FOUNTAIN Sun Square gave us Dancing Fountain, a brightly lit bowl with water sprayed to created the fountain in time with staccato music.

© Malcolm Birkett

© Geo Batchelor LRPS

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© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Spencer Stephens

STREET FOOD The market square had plenty of street food stalls

© Spencer Stephens

GARLAND THE CASTLE At the top of the hill we faced the gatehouse of the forbidding Lancaster Castle, seat of the Duchy of Lancaster (King Charles is the current Duke). Until recently this was HM Prison Lancaster and was the scene of the famous Pendle Witch Trials back in 1612 Throughout the evening the light display Garland the Gate gave us constantly changing images to capture.

© Malcolm Birkett

SCIENCE IN THE STOREY BUILDING In the Storey Building just across from the Castle our physicist and physiologist photographers were taken by the re-imagining of the synchrotron and by projections of stained cell specimens.

© Ray Wilson

© Ray Wilson

© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Alan Cameron ARPS

IN THE CASTLE - LABYRINTH The castle gardens featured Labyrinth made by volunteers from St John’s Hospice and described as “A peaceful reflection in memory of lives shared and lives lost.” © Ray Wilson

IN THE CASTLE - SOMNIUS In the castle courtyard we found “Somnius”, a light show that danced about viewers heads in reaction to their movements.

© Ray Wilson

© Malcolm Birkett

© Ray Wilson

DAYDREAMS In the darkness of the Priory we found Daydreams - ever changing displays in a triangular display , the choir of the church illuminated in bold primary colours - see also back page.

© Ray Wilson

OTHER LIGHTS On the way to Dalton square and it’s formal show we picked up other lights

© Malcolm Birkett

© Geo Batchelor LRPS

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© Malcolm Birkett

DALTON SQUARE “Imprint” celebrated the centenary of Lancaster textile manufacturers, Standfast and Barracks with son-et-lumière displays on one side of the square

© Ray Wilson

© Geo Batchelor LRPS

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© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Ray Wilson