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kids, photos

Fireworks

I'm not much a fireworks fan, myself. They go up, they go bang, they go down, repeat. This is the first time I've even bothered to go to a fireworks show for years. (Amy used to drag me to them, but until last year the kids were too small and too easily alarmed to enjoy them; and last year, Amy and the kids were visiting Jojo in Georgia while I was working here on July 4th.)

Anyway, we went this year to the little local park, arriving around 7-ish for the 10:15 show. This is a heavily kid-oriented community, and the park was filled with kids and kids' games. We roamed around for a while, listening to the music and so on (there was a duo, I think called Moon June Spoon, ¹ unless that was their idea of a joke, who were doing 1920s songs; they weren't bad, in a cheerfully amateur way) for a couple of hours, and then settled down for the fireworks. The show was better than I'd expected, considering this is just a small park in a small community; it lasted a half hour or so, and the kids thought it was great.

This is the first time I've tried to photograph fireworks, fumbling with settings in the dark, and as you'd expect most of the pictures came out pretty crap. This one is the best I came up with, and it's not very good. Still, it was fun to try.


1. (Update) I'm pretty sure the duo is actually The Fabulous Heftones, so the Moon June Spoon thing was a joke. If you're wondering what the instrument she's playing is, it's a Heftone. Obviously.