Fireworks, sorta, well maybe . . .

Its not that i don't like watching fireworks - rather they all seem sorta the same after a while. Obviously they are not the same and are mostly different in color and patterns — mostly.

So when they are going off i usually don't bother going outdoors to see them. And because this is a tourist town and Biltmore is here, there are often fireworks throughout the summer. Yesterday when the fireworks for the 4th of July began to go off, i didn't give it much thought. At some point S asked me to step out and look, that they were really beautiful ... so i did, step out.

And they were, beautiful; so i picked up my new Sony and began to shoot and ... what, it wouldn't work, wouldn't focus, nothing. So i ran upstairs to my bird lens and camera, which was already set up and began to shoot thru the screen on the upstairs window.

And lo, i loved the results:

Don't really look like traditional fireworks, eh? And watching thru the screen they didn't look anything like that either ... only with the camera photographing thru the screen did they turn out like this ... i like 'em better then the traditional ones.

Enjoy —