There’s still a few days left to go see the lights and decorations in the Peace Park (aka Bishop Lucey Park). We went on the first weekend it was open ang there was no queuing.
The kids had a great time running around looking at everything and even throwing an ice cube in the fountain to make a wish.
The Small Fella even said yesterday that he forgot to put ‘something’ on his Santa list but he thinks he’s OK because he wished for it in the fountain. Good luck to Santa with that one!!
The park has a new designer this year and it’s looking fresher. But it struck me that it’s less interactive – certainly compared to the first ‘Franc year’. It really is a photo event: there are lots of festive things to get your picture taken with (see above!).
So bring your cameras and it’s time to try out the slow-sync flash. It may be disguised as ‘night mode’ or something like that. But basically it should slow the shutter down to bring up the ambient lights then blast the foreground with a flash to pick kids out. It takes a bit of playing with and a steady hand but the pic of the kids above was taken on my compact Pansonic Lumix LX-5. You don’t need anything too ‘flashy’.