Fireworks Do-Over

You may or may not recall that the Canada Day fireworks hadn't been the best this year. I thought they just weren't great for me from my bedroom window, but, apparently, they were somewhat lacking for everyone. On Saturday, the town staged a Do-Over.

I returned to the trail bridge location from some of my past years' shoots. I like that I can include town hall from this vantage point. I took this ↓ photo before I got to the exact spot from where I would shoot because I liked the light on the former mill (now apartments) complex (left).

Although this is a good spot for the fireworks and to include town hall in the process, the building etc always turns out very black. I was hoping to do some light blending this time, and set up my camera and tripod to do so. Alas! when the fireworks began my plans were immediately scuppered (yes, Blogger, it is a word) because the fireworks were going off more directly over town hall this year. Sigh.

It wouldn't do to have the displays so truncated ↑ on the left side so I had to shift the camera and forego my attempts at light blending. (If you don't understand this, don't worry, it's not important.)

Below, are the photos that stood out to me on my first pass through the evening's shoot. There may be better ones that I will post later, but these grabbed my attention first. Sadly, the new bridge lights are still not operational. I was hoping, but was disappointed.

I began with two images that picked up some reflection in the water.

There was no reflection in these next photos, so I cropped the river out because it was pretty well dead space.

For the final two photos (for today), I did a lot more cropping, focusing more closely around the clock tower. A lot of the displays were very close to the tower with the rest of the sky being blank.

I had not been terribly enthusiastic when I set out because I have photographed from this spot before. However, I ended up getting some decent images, so I am happy that I made the effort. With all that has been going on in my life this summer, I have hardly done any photography at all, so it was good to force myself to just get out there and click like a crazed madman.

I r4eally did click madly: 146 times in all. As a result, I am sorry to inform you that I will be inflicting one or two more fireworks posts in the days that lie ahead.