Illumination Weekend Part One
This weekend was our annual big Illumination Weekend campout. Many of the gay camp grounds host an illumination weekend. We started going to the one at Hillside back in 2001. Every year we went back - our group got a little bigger and soon we also started going to the Jones Pond Illumination Weekend as well.
As it so happens - it is also the double birthday for Eric and my old roommate Gabe. So after dropping off a cake with Gabe on Friday afternoon, I headed down to meet everyone at Jones Pond to set up camp for the weekend. Saturday we had a Greek style dinner and followed up with cake and homemade raspberry ice cream for Eric's birthday.
Last year's camp out got rained out and was quite "wet" We ended up abandoning ship on Saturday afternoon, missing the illumination competition :O( So we were back in force this year at Jones Pond. Here is our group getting the balloons ready after dinner.
We took an idea we started at Hillside 2 years ago with disposable LEDs Eric located on the internet and placed 60+ balloons around the campsite at various heights of 15 - 50 feet. The effect after dark was quite dramatic. Here are some still shots along with a couple of videos.
The slide show was prepared by our friend Bill DeGroote.
1 comment:
Well done...I tink I am missing 50%of the efect but the video gives the swaying movement better than the stills. Christo o the night skies. Maybe you could raise them in place with 2001 theme blaring in the backround?
Jimmy
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