Fireworks

One of the communities near us sponsored a fireworks display last Saturday. We had gotten a postcard in the mail several weeks ago and agreed to go but forgot until we heard the fireworks begin. Fortunately we were able to drive to a good vantage point quickly - only missing the first 10 minutes or so. Fireworks and celebration are almost synonymous!

I grabbed my camera as we dashed out of the house and was pleased with the results. The Canon Powershot SX289 HS does a reasonable job of image stabilization. All the pictures in the slide show below were hand held!

The finale was a series of rockets that streamed upward in tight formation creating giant ‘sparklers’ in the sky. I couldn’t resist a picture of the super moon  after the end of the fireworks; it is included as the last image in the slide show. It looks like it is balanced on the tops of a tulip poplar and a pine.