Isn’t the photo above a beautiful sight? Definitely stunning, but maybe a bit misleading. The fact is, for a good portion of the fireworks show, our view looked like this:
Or, if you turned your head 90 degrees, like this:
When we were lucky, it looked like this:
And when we were not lucky, like this:
We left home in time to get to the fireworks show half an hour early, just to be safe.
But so did everybody else.
If you squint your eyes, it kind of looks like fireworks.
We did NOT park illegally and scramble up the slope…
…but we were entertained by the folks who did.
We made it to the exit ramp just in time for…
the Big Finale!
We had a perfect view, right over the top of the parking garage.
We didn’t have to wrestle the folding chairs or worry about permanent hearing loss, and the kids still thought the show was great.
Who knows? Maybe drive-through fireworks shows are the wave of the future.
July 6th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Some of these are really good pictures. What setting did you use on your camera?
July 7th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
She used her fancy new lens with a 1.4 F-stop. I don’t know how possible night shooting from the car window would work without that.
Though traffic was crawling and we were moving at 0.01 miles per hour, every time I did move Dana would say “stop, I’m trying to take a picture of these trees for my blog”. I guess her vast readership is worth that.
I’ll have to say I did feel like superdad for having the ideal spot for the finale while being already on the way out while everyone else was heading to the car. You just don’t pull victory from the jaws of defeat like that very often.
July 8th, 2010 at 8:16 am
ISO 800
aperture f/2.2
shutter speed around 1/80 second
I just got lucky that the pictures look like anything, since I pretty much didn’t know what I was doing…