Friday, July 05, 2013

Fireworks and the Lack o' Same

I miss livin' in Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park once a year, and ONLY once a year... that time bein' the Fourth o' July.  That's mainly because I had a ringside seat for the P-Ville municipal fireworks show, what with El Casa Móvil De Pennington only bein' about 500 yards from Ground Zero, or where the fireworks are shot off.  I'd set up my camp chairs on my car hauler (for elevation, dontcha know), set the camera up on the tripod, pour myself three or four fingers o' Scotland's finest, light a cigar, and marvel.  The results looked a lot like this:

Monday, July 04, 2011

Fireworks

We sat outside in the backyard (or what passes for a backyard, anyhoo) earlier this evening and watched the P-Ville municipal fireworks show, which happens on the grounds of ENMU's athletic fields... about 500 yards behind Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park.  So we have a ringside seat, as it were.  We took pictures, of course, and feel compelled to burden you with them.  Without further ado...










I need a wider angle lens for this sorta stuff.  All of these were shot with my Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens, locked down at 28mm, focus set to infinity, f-stops varying between f-11 and f-8, and various exposure times set between one and eight seconds.  Timing is everything when shooting fireworks and these eight shots are the best of the 140 photos I took tonight (I got a lot of black screen pics, due to bein' late on the draw).  Ergo, my success ratio is less than impressive.  All shots are as they came out of the camera, except for being re-sized (all) and cropped (in some cases).
Tonight?  The athletic fields are about a mile away from where I live now and the horizon is obscured by trees... hardly worth the effort.  I watched about the first ten minutes or so and then went back in the house to catch Charlie Rose, which was a lot more entertaining. 
(Sigh) 

7 comments:

  1. Those were impressive pics. I blew off the local fireworks scene to enjoy family backyard bbq. Better alround.

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    1. I think you made the right choice, Curtis. Thanks for the kind words.

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  3. The Anderson fireworks were Wednesday night.
    I could hear them.
    GS and I haven't actually seen them, except maybe on TV, for a number of years.
    We also avoided the traffic jam in Redding last night.

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    1. Dee-troit used to have great fireworks on the river, but talk about TRAFFIC! I think I went once or mebbe twice during the ten years I lived there. I thought... VERY briefly... about shooting a cheesy video last night, mainly for the noise of all the locals shooting off thier backyard fireworks. That went until well after midnight...

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  4. Too much lookin up will give ya a sore neck. Just saying....

    On another note: WoooWhoooooo! Daniel Alfredsson will sign a 1-year deal with the Red Wings today.

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    1. That's pretty cool about Alfredsson! I hadn't heard.

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