Fireworks 2009.07.04

Who doesn't love fireworks? We live on Lake Washington. 4th of July fireworks are the reason I have a boat. To see fireworks up close (sound you can feel) without 27,000 of your closest friends standing up in front of you at the best parts ... well that's pretty cool! I took these photos on 7/4/2008 and 2009, hand held from a rocking boat. If you've never tried this ... it's realy challenging. The first is the best and clearest shot. The others show some artifacts of the boat's movement. The ones you're not seeing? Well, there's LOTS of movement in those.

Taken 7/4/2009 with my wife's pro-sumer point and shoot ... Canon G-10. I composited about 12 individual firework explosians into a single composition. When I was done with it, I had a 10,000 by 7.500 pixel, 1.25 GB Photoshop file. Saving to JPEG reduced the file size to about 30 MB. This version is considerable smaller.
My best and clearest shot of the evening!
Honorable mention for abstract image.