The Friday Harbor Fireworks display was extra special this year in honor of the Fire Departments 100th birthday. Amoeba took his trumpet and I took my camera and we went out to sit at the edge of the Harbor. I should have done a bit of reading on night photography before I attempted this, but I got 18 fair photos out of 243 shots!
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Beautiful Quilly, Like how you did it as a Slide Show.
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Thanks, Bill. Originally I didn’t do a slide show, and then I thought better of it.
Figures you like fireworks, Gandalf and all that. Personally I always found Strider to be a little creepy, I liked Sam.
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I like Sam, too — perhaps even more than I liked Frodo. Seems to me, Sam was the real hero.
I always thought that about Sam, too.
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Fireworks are sO hard to get good shots of! You did GREAT!!!
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Melli — I would have done better with a tripod, I think. I took my tripod, but it was just too awkward to use on the rocks as we were.
Which was louder, Amoeba’s playing or your photography?
Amoeba used a mute and played so quietly, our shore-side neighbors didn’t know he had a trumpet until they saw it — at which point they regaled him to stop and play them a tune. Nobody asked me to snap their photos. Alas.
You got some really fantastic shots, Quilly. We had a quiet night at home. My husband does not like getting in the traffic to see the fireworks. A couple of years ago we were in Roswell, New Mexico on July 4th and the fireworks were wonderful and very close to where we were staying…so we got to see them.
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We had only foot traffic to worry about. The fireworks weren’t more than 50 yards downhill from out apartment. We could have stayed in the apartment, but the tree branches and roof overhang would have interfered with my photo taking.
Those are wonderful, Quilly. Quite beautiful. But I understand what you mean about the percentages. I’ve been trying to put together a post for the last week about a rodeo I went to. With everything moving so quickly, I had much the same problem as you. Hopefully, I’ll be able to finish it up this evening. I’ve been working on a sermon for a service this afternoon, and I really couldn’t work on anything else until that was done.
Have a wonderful day!
Cherie, ramp up your shutter speed and pray — that’s my strategy for action photos!
We have this show on July 21, and with all the fireworks the poor cats and dogs are all getting crazy !
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Yes, the poor animals do not enjoy the fireworks on any continent.
Btw the water is not “dirty” it was in too much food the ducks were swimming ! Imagine a whole camping place feeding the ducks with their old bread, lol !
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Oh my! But it seems to me swimming through old food would be dirty.
Hi there,
was going to leave a comment this afternoon and my Internet went byebye’, tsts….
I’m glad you had a blast!
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It’s not easy at all to capture fireworks and you’ve done well!
The first one is my total Fav
Looks like a flower!
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That first one was my first good shot! I am proudest of it.
So you should be
I didn’t bother with fireworks, I knew it would probably be more crowded that it was worth and I don’t care for constant loud noises like that.
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We weren’t at all crowded, but I did murmur a bit at the loud booms.
Quilly, I have to laugh because I too was sitting there on my blanket, camera in hand snapping away at the beautiful display of fire in the sky. I’ll bet I took 100 photos, only to have about 3 turn out half way good. I am no photographer, nor do I own a really good camera to capture these picutres. But, it was fun trying. Oh well. Your photos turned out GREAT!! Happy 4th and 5th to you!
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CL — ramp up your shutter speed and put your camera on it’s action setting. Then you might get a couple more shots. A tripod would help, too.
Nice to see some shots. It rained here and my camera stayed in its case.
The first one is my favorite too.
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Carletta — that first one was actually #32. It took me that long to get my camera settings right!
They look good to me! So how is your rash? Glad you had a nice 4th.
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Jill — thanks — the rash is causing me to behave in a very rash manner. I have pretty much peeled all the skin off my butt using my fingernails.
I love every single one of these shots Quilly, absolutely fantastic.
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Bazza, thank you!
Beautiful!! It’s hard to get good pics of fireworks.
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Barbara — Thank you! I did have to work at it!
Great shots Q. Sounds like it was a great time. I’m going to post about the time here on Tuesday Tale’s. You talk about getting fireworks shots…LOL. Try it with a point and shoot. LOL. Your photos are, as usual, excellent
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Thom — Are you going to share your point and shoot firworks pictures?
Did I or did I not say in Tuesday Tales? LOL…lemme re-read my comment LOL
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You did a great job with the pictures. Now if you could add a little trumpet playing in the background it would be perfect.
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Spectacular fireworks.
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Great shots of the fireworks. I posted some photos but every thing did not come out as I would like.
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Quilly I think you got some amazing shots!
we set off some fireworks in my parents driveway last night. It was fun to watch the menfolk play at it. Even though I nodded in and out of awareness after taking a pill….it was still a nice evening.
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Beautiful slide show, very well done!
If there’s one thing I enjoy it’s a firework display.
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Wow! Awesome! Now I can say I got to see fireworks this year.
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Wow, it’s at times like these I really wish us swedes also could celebrate in a big way like you do (or even our neighbours, the norwegians) when it’s a national day or such. Instead here it’s almost considered a sin to be happy and celebrate – especially if you wave a flag which has more or less become a symbol of xenophobia….
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