In the End We had a Blast

Well, that was a bit crazy but pretty funny too. We set up to shoot the fireworks.

There was an online notice that the show would begin at 10 o'clock, 15 minutes later than scheduled. At 10 we heard noises, so someone somewhere was doing something with fireworks. We saw nothing. It was odd because, as you have previously witnessed, I have some very good photos from the window in the past.

We concluded that they had changed the setup this year, so we tore our setup down. I went to my den. Sue went to bed.

After 5 or 10 minutes, Sue called out that there were fireworks. She thought she had heard something and had seen some flashes over thataway. She got up to check.

Hurriedly, I grabbed my stuff and set it back up and began to fire away. Sue never did get set her phone back up in the frenzy.

I got some photos but nothing great. The result doesn't matter because I don't spend my life agonizing over getting the perfect fireworks shot, and I already have some results from past years that are pretty good.

If you regard those first two photos ↑ you might notice that I had set up to get the whole building (see photo 1) in the frame, but it turned out that all of bursts, this year, were over the right side. Had I known, I could have focused more on that area. Instead I cropped a lot, and that's okay too.

The point is that I got some photos, and that cheered me, for I had almost put my camera away for the past month or two. We had a good laugh over the situation, and laughter is the best medicine — or so they are wont to say.

We'll remember and enjoy the humour of these particular Canada Day fireworks.