Last night we met some friends of ours at a local park we have been going to the past few years to watch fireworks. Each year we get there at the same time, park on the same street (practically in the same spot) and claim our same spot to watch the show. In addition, each year I plan to take pictures of the fireworks, something I have wanted to do for quite some time and each year I capture complete blur for a million different reasons (forgot my tripod, wrong camera settings, etc.).
Well this year was going to be different, because when I purchased my new camera I also purchased a cable release, which is ideal for getting crisp and clear photographs of fireworks. I did all my homework and read up on taking firework photos, mastered the camera settings and packed my tripod. I was all set. All set, until a few hours before we headed out the door and I could not find my brand new cable release, a major kink in my plan. It is important because with the cable release I would not need to touch the camera to take the photo, which would prevent blurring and produce a crisp clean shot.
Disappointed about the cable release, I still took my camera. I managed to get a few shots out of the 50+ shots I took with just using my tripod. Here are few shots I liked (even with the blur).
I especially love watch the blur did to the one below.
The good thing is there is always next year and I have plenty of time to find my cable release.
On another note, the show was good and the kids had a blast. Brynn's finally gotten over her fear of the fireworks and really enjoyed herself this year. Braden literally ran around us until the fireworks began (if we could bottle his energy in pill form, we would be rich) and managed to sit through the entire 15 minutes of fireworks without moving, a huge accomplishment. We did have a little help from a little girl whom we did not know that was nice enough to pass out glow bracelets to the kids, something Braden was quite fascinated with. So fascinated he evidently began chewing on it on our way home, broke it open and ended up with the liquid gel in his mouth, which caused a skin reaction around his mouth that resulted in me Googling glow bracelets, which resulted in 1 teaspoon of Benedryl and staying up later than planned. He is fine, turns out you would have to ingest quite a bit of the liquid for it to be toxic and skin irritations are common. I do not think he will be chewing on one of those again.
We hope everyone had a safe and Happy 4th of July!!
