Guy Fawkes Night
I remember when we were young we would claim an empty block in our street for our annual Guy Fawkes bon fire. Weeks out from the 5th we would collect flammable materials from anyone happy to donate...come to think of it I think some of the Dads in the area probably looked at it as an opportunity to have a bit of a clean out. We'd pile it up in the middle of the empty block, usually the one next to Yiankuiskis house in preparation for a big "Lord of the Flies" style romp around the biggest fire we could get together.
We would also have to protect our construction from neighboring roaming urchins, much like ourselves, who would be all too happy to flick a premature match into our Craigie road gang offering to the Guy Fawkes Gods, ruining our big night. This was especially important in the week leading up to the 5th and we would sometimes post an overnight watch.
Sometimes the older kids in the street, usually my cousins would make us an effigy of Guy although I can only remember this happening once or twice.
There would always be fireworks involved too, mostly shop bought but with a spattering of home made also. Needless to say we were Kings of our domain on the night of the 5th, Guy Fawkes night.
I'd be surprised if my kids had ever heard of Guy Fawkes night. They're all about Halloween these days, which was never celebrated in Australia when I was young.
It is also the birthday of my first and still friend Pete. Both 52 we still call each other on our Birthdays.
These days of course, apart from calling Pete, my November the 5ths come and go without much reference to Guy Fawkes but it was pretty nice this November the 5th to take off from a happy family and spend the night out and about in this location, watching the moon rise and light the scenes around me....one again King of my domain.
Linhof Super Technika IV, Nikkor 75mm, Fuji Velvia 50. Exposure about 1 hour, between about 11.30pm and 12.30am, under a full moon with a pretty patchy cloud cover at F5.6. Processed beautifully by Vanbar Imaging N+1. There is a bit a fall off up the top because I have to use quite a lot of rise so the bed doesn't show up in the photos.....think I need a 90mm.......
Guy Fawkes Night
I remember when we were young we would claim an empty block in our street for our annual Guy Fawkes bon fire. Weeks out from the 5th we would collect flammable materials from anyone happy to donate...come to think of it I think some of the Dads in the area probably looked at it as an opportunity to have a bit of a clean out. We'd pile it up in the middle of the empty block, usually the one next to Yiankuiskis house in preparation for a big "Lord of the Flies" style romp around the biggest fire we could get together.
We would also have to protect our construction from neighboring roaming urchins, much like ourselves, who would be all too happy to flick a premature match into our Craigie road gang offering to the Guy Fawkes Gods, ruining our big night. This was especially important in the week leading up to the 5th and we would sometimes post an overnight watch.
Sometimes the older kids in the street, usually my cousins would make us an effigy of Guy although I can only remember this happening once or twice.
There would always be fireworks involved too, mostly shop bought but with a spattering of home made also. Needless to say we were Kings of our domain on the night of the 5th, Guy Fawkes night.
I'd be surprised if my kids had ever heard of Guy Fawkes night. They're all about Halloween these days, which was never celebrated in Australia when I was young.
It is also the birthday of my first and still friend Pete. Both 52 we still call each other on our Birthdays.
These days of course, apart from calling Pete, my November the 5ths come and go without much reference to Guy Fawkes but it was pretty nice this November the 5th to take off from a happy family and spend the night out and about in this location, watching the moon rise and light the scenes around me....one again King of my domain.
Linhof Super Technika IV, Nikkor 75mm, Fuji Velvia 50. Exposure about 1 hour, between about 11.30pm and 12.30am, under a full moon with a pretty patchy cloud cover at F5.6. Processed beautifully by Vanbar Imaging N+1. There is a bit a fall off up the top because I have to use quite a lot of rise so the bed doesn't show up in the photos.....think I need a 90mm.......