Despite the rotten week we've had, we did have a good time for the few hours that we were in the Tampa area with Kathleen and Nick last week. We flew out on July 4th and the airports were VERY crowded--this surprised me. But we got to their house in plenty of time to relax in their pool, have some drinks and await the evening's fireworks. A powerful storm rolled through--they have been getting nearly as much rain as we have had lately--and the power went out for a bit. We were worried there wouldn't be fireworks due to the weather.
Boy, were there fireworks! They live right on a little Tampa Bay inlet so they are directly on the water. Across the water is Sylvester Stallone's house. Just above his house is where their fireworks go off. That was the show we were waiting for, but all along the water's edge for about 270 degrees, there were fireworks going off. These weren't little bottle rocket fireworks. These were the real deal. I've never been so close to so many fireworks!
One of my main objective on this trip was to experiment with some of the new photo techniques I've been learning and get some decent fireworks pictures. I think I did OK for the first time especially considering that it was sprinkling and there were explosions going off on all sides.
There were almost 100 of these, but I pared it down to some of my favorites. The house lights you can see in some of them are Sylvester's I guess. Didn't realize my camera was peeping quite so much! Enjoy.
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Great job! I'm impressed. We will have to talk about the settings you used. I want to take good pictures of fireworks too... and maybe a house like Sylvester Stallones too!
It is strange how you can take photos with such joy one day, and then have something happen that just shakes your world all upside down the next day. You look at the photos differently after that, right? It's like oh, those were taken, "before" the news...
I had a similar experience back when I used film photography. I had spent a wonderful, hot, sunny Sunday in Binghamton watching Kevin play rugby. I took lots of pictures. Then I had a birthday dinner with Mom and Dad. It was September 9th, 2001. Then 9/11 happened and my/everyone's world changed.
When I got my photos developed on that roll of film, I remember thinking that it was two different worlds. I thought freely on that Sunday, and had "fear" in the pictures at the end of the roll.
You had those somewhat care-free moments watching/capturing on film, those fireworks not knowing that in a day, your world would change.
I think it makes those firework pictures very special. Treasure them. They were taken in a different world.
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