This was an excellent display with some novel effects. The overall co-ordination of the display was very good and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd.
The most unusual effect was produced during the firing of a volley of many shells. One particularly large shell exploded, producing extremely bright stars – nothing unusual in that except that the stars were many many times larger than “normal” stars and appeared to produce flaming fireballs in the sky. At the end of the volley, there remained a line of stars on parachutes – slowly descending to the ground.
Some other unusual shells were spherical ball-star type shells, except one half of the hemisphere had stars of one colour, and the other another.
Shaped-burst shells were taken to a new height with the production of an effect which can best be described as the planet saturn! A large spherical core of small(ish) stars was surrounded by a discrete, bright ring of stars. At one point, the sky appeared to be filled with planets!
A dramatic crowd-pleaser was produced by a large number of rockets fired in a very close cluster rising extremely rapidly and all exploding at different heights – the effect producing what appeared to be a large bunch of flowers in the air.
Another dramatic moment was the firing of a line of very large mines containing the brightest stars I have ever seen – so bright and fired so high that the crowd gasped in amazement.
The finale was also spectacular and contained many of the effects I have just described, includind some shaped-burst shells which produced large hearts in the sky. The finale concluded to a thunderous volley of large titanium salutes.
Overall, this was an excellent display and Holland must be in with a very good chance of picking up one of the Jupiter awards this year.