Posted by Shannon | Posted in | Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009
Wow. Is it really July?
As we celebrate our Independence Day, I'm already thinking about the light show and how we might improve upon it, from adding lights more lights to adding controllers we're trying to figure out what is in the budget and what is really feasible for Cincy Lights in 2009.
As 2008 was our first year going an animated Christmas display, I think we did really good, but soon realized it took us MUCH longer put up the lights and cords ran that we first thought. We mistakenly believed we could get the lights put up in one weekend.. HA.. HA.. that is all I have to say about that. It didn't help that we had a cold snap that weekend and we were working in 20-something degrees with wind that made it VERY uncomfortable.
This year I plan on getting started much earlier. I may get the neighbors talking if we start putting lights up right after Halloween... but who wants to be out in the cold trying to string lights. NOT me. I'm also going to try and locate a better video camera then the one I was using last year. The Sony we had borrowed just didn't do low light well at all and I was disappointed a little with the video as it didn't capture the full show, so I felt it lost something. It's all really early in the planning, plus we have to find an electrician that can work for peanuts, that might mean more to our ability to expand things then anything.
The one good thing about this past year as we were under the radar and I don't think we actually had too many visitors or at least those that we noticed, so I wasn't nervous about getting the neighbors ticked at us during Christmas. It was something I was concerned with as we live on a fairly small no-outlet road with neighbors that frequently get impatient at larger trucks making deliveries, etc. Would I have liked to see cars lined up to see the display? Sure.. I would have had a moment of.. THEY really, really like me... followed by sheer terror as I waited for the police to come shut us down.
Happy Fourth to Everyone!!
Shannon
As we celebrate our Independence Day, I'm already thinking about the light show and how we might improve upon it, from adding lights more lights to adding controllers we're trying to figure out what is in the budget and what is really feasible for Cincy Lights in 2009.
As 2008 was our first year going an animated Christmas display, I think we did really good, but soon realized it took us MUCH longer put up the lights and cords ran that we first thought. We mistakenly believed we could get the lights put up in one weekend.. HA.. HA.. that is all I have to say about that. It didn't help that we had a cold snap that weekend and we were working in 20-something degrees with wind that made it VERY uncomfortable.
This year I plan on getting started much earlier. I may get the neighbors talking if we start putting lights up right after Halloween... but who wants to be out in the cold trying to string lights. NOT me. I'm also going to try and locate a better video camera then the one I was using last year. The Sony we had borrowed just didn't do low light well at all and I was disappointed a little with the video as it didn't capture the full show, so I felt it lost something. It's all really early in the planning, plus we have to find an electrician that can work for peanuts, that might mean more to our ability to expand things then anything.
The one good thing about this past year as we were under the radar and I don't think we actually had too many visitors or at least those that we noticed, so I wasn't nervous about getting the neighbors ticked at us during Christmas. It was something I was concerned with as we live on a fairly small no-outlet road with neighbors that frequently get impatient at larger trucks making deliveries, etc. Would I have liked to see cars lined up to see the display? Sure.. I would have had a moment of.. THEY really, really like me... followed by sheer terror as I waited for the police to come shut us down.
Happy Fourth to Everyone!!
Shannon
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