4 posts tagged “fireworks”
The best fireworks display I ever saw was in 1976.
I know what you're thinking-- USA bicentennial. You're wrong. It was sometime in mid-November. I was in Red Square, and yes I mean the one in Moscow, in what was then the Soviet Union at its repressive best.
It was some sort of holiday, though I can't for the life of me figure out what it was. Maybe a national leader's birthday? Maybe GUM had just gotten in a new shipment of shoes? I haven't the foggiest, and may never know.
Whatever it was, we went to Red Square for the changing of the guard at the Kremlin, and there was a spectacular fireworks display. It was unlike anything I had ever seen-- they somehow managed to blanket the entire sky in a uniform red glow. And then a green one. A blue one. Red again, and purple. Everywhere you looked, the sky was a magical color. Even though I was just a couple of days shy of my twelfth birthday, I clearly remember facing St. Basil's Cathedral and watching the sky transform itself.
I like both of these shots. The first one just has an interesting geometry to it.
The second one has the way-cool smiley face fireworks, although the shutter speed makes them look demonic.
Fireworks are easy! All you have to do is set the right exposure, point the camera, and then figure out the right times to open and close the shutter. I got two out of three right on this one.
This weekend is Kaboom, the annual fireworks display put on by one of our local radio stations. I'm trying to decide between going to Treasure Island and going to the Port of Oakland to take pictures.
In the meantime, here's a picture from Fourth of July last year, taken from the roof of my loft.
