Fête des lumières

Fête des lumières (festival of lights) is Lyon’s largest annual festival. During the four days of festivities the centre of the city swells with visitors enjoying the light shows and art installations.

This was our first Fête des lumières and we made the most of our easy access into the city centre. We were able to visit different sections of the city each night and I did my best to film a little of what we saw. A series of short films are embedded below and available on YouTube.

My point-and-shoot Canon camera does not excel with night photographs. During the evenings I saw many large semi-professional cameras being lugged around; hopefully those doing the lugging were able to better capture the magic of the lights.

A selection of my photographs from the festival appear below. They give some flavour of the event.