A sparkling 4th of July!
Thanks Kristen Duke‘s fabulous tips on how to photograph fireworks (featured on The Idea Room), I had a lot of fun catching all those sparkly things in action on the 4th of July. I still need a heck of a lot of little practice, and these were only neighborhood fireworks, but I think I caught a few fun ones. My faves are the sparklers, hands down (and around and around).
What you don’t see captured is 6 adults and 12 kids running for cover when one of the newfangled aerial fireworks tipped over and started shooting sparkly things left and right. About 5 hit the neighbor’s home across the street and a good 5 or more shot our direction. It was chaos mixed with hysterics mixed with a few choice words, but everyone was safe, thank heavens. Livi’s take on the mini adventure? More than enough fireworks action to last her a good long time…or at least until July 24th!
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Hope your 4th was as awesome—though a bit less adventurous—as ours!
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Fun pictures! I love the sparklers too. Our 4th was a bit wet, so our pictures didn’t turn out quite so stellar…
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Emily Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 9:40 am
Ours saw some sprinkles too but fortunately it didn’t last long!
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Adam brought back some fun fireworks from Missouri. He’s waiting for the 24th!
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Emily Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 9:40 am
I bet I’ll be able to see those from our house!
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That looks like so much fun. Great pictures.
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Emily Reply:
July 11th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Welcome! Glad you stopped by!
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Amazing pictures Em! Wanna give me some lessons?! ;o)
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Emily Reply:
July 11th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I seriously learned it using that helpful post I linked to–but you definitely need a tripod!
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Amazing, I love the fireworks!
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Emily Reply:
July 11th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Why, thank you, Lindsey! :)
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Ah, so much fun to be a proud dad of a writer and now a photographer! Awesme pics. California in 3 weeks!
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Emily Reply:
July 11th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
YAY!!!
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