Bom! Bom! Bom! Three heart-pounding sounds rang through our home, awakening me from my half-sleep stance on the couch, the TV showing a rerun of SVU of Law & Order, and sending my wife to the window to investigate.Then there was another burst of staccato sound waves, seemingly reverberating through our bodies. “Fireworks! Fireworks!” my wife shrieked in excitement from the up-stair window. By the time I joined her at the up-stair patio, she was already ensconced on a chair, camera in hand, but not clicking away at the pyrotechnic display lighting up the nightscape outside the window. Instead, she complained that the camera, the Nikon Coolpix L6, which has churned out many vivid images that grace these pages, was taking ages to shoot. It’s only when I took over the camera that the problem became apparent: the scene selection was set to indoor. But her efforts were not totally in vain as evidenced by this dream-like shot that resembles the universe with different constellations luminous at different corners, the wire-screen separating the patio from the outside lending a wave-like effect like a warped space or something. There is even a comet or shooting star look-alike streaking across, all made possible by the instant of shooting when the firework was just about to spray the sky with a tapestry of effervescent but evanescent hues.
However, I did have the good sense to venture outdoor and took the following great shots, courtesy of the “fireworks show” scene setting of our camera, a fabulous example of being at the right place at the right time, and armed with the right tool.
We speculated that the fireworks must have originated from Busch Gardens as our new home is practically within minutes from it. But this is the first time we are seeing it since we moved here late last month. Or maybe the fireworks show is on every last Friday of the month, which is today. Anyway, the night has turned out to be a pleasant surprise, adding considerably to my photographic collection as far as brilliance, literally, is concerned. Enjoy!
I have a feeling this was shot with the "night landscape" setting as it does not look as stunning as the following ones that I'm sure were
taken using the "Fireworks show" scene setting.
The tentacles-like outreach seems so surreal!
Like a candy cane with an array of green filaments that radiate out. But where's the hook of the cane?
An infusion of needle-like crytal growth.
A space hydra?
2 comments:
Heh, heh! I actually think the 'candy cane' one looks like a little palm tree! Yikes, if it comes from Busch Gardens, wouldn't they be doing that a lot in the summer? Any noise problem concerns? Nice pictures, by the way! They seem like they're really close!
Yes, an inverted palm indeed.
The display came on at about nine something but it lasted about 15min, o rmay be half an hour. So it's not too bad. More than made up by the free show.
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