Took these from my balcony in the last 20 minutes.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
runs through thread with sparklers Teeheeeheeeheee!
Geez…my town isn’t having fireworks until saturday. Usually they do it on Sunday night, this is the first year they’ve switched. Maybe someday they’ll have themn on the ACTUAL 4th, like most other places.
I can’t buy my own, cause one of my dogs freaks over fireworks, I don’t want to scare him.
Great looking pics, yojimboguy! I really like the second one. 
I, myself, took photos of some “snakes” that I lit on my driveway today. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed they come out…
Unfortunately I don’t have a scanner, so ya’ll won’t be able to actually see the little piles of grey ash. But I’ll more than gladly mail copies to anyone interested, though.
Happy, proud to be an American
I filled an empty beer case with old rockets I had laying around, sprinkled on some black powder and a few old lances, stuck a fuse on it, and had the shortest firework show I’ve done in a while.
Last year I shot a $16k+ show in Illinois where I had to hand light the 4" finale racks because they were wired badly and weren’t daisy chained. You don’t know the rush of fireworks until you’re launching groups of 4" shells from fiberglass cannons while 5" shells are whizzing past your head. Ahh, the smell of black powder. I was over doing it with the fusee and put it out at the very last rack, and ended up lighting that string with the small flame from the wax coating.
The year before I worked that same show, plus a $10k-ish show in Wisconsin where they were re-loading unburied racks and had a willow and salute explode in the rack, making us inside the firework. Thank bob for high density polyethelene and cotton. I was the furthest away from the rack when it went, because I was electronically shooting the eights and finale, but stars were still whizzing past me.
Yes, I realize that most of you don’t know what I’m talking about, but that’s OK because I’m bein all sentimental-like, right?
'course kiddoz, don’t try this at home, I’m a trained pyrotechnician, etc.