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Last Wednesday I saw the first installment of the Celebration of Light. It was amazing, though far too short. On the bright side, I found a good spot to set up my camera–not as close as I would have liked, but I had an absolutely perfect view.

Taking these photos was a bit of a challenge. My camera’s ISO sensitivity only goes up to 800, and I had to do a lot of fiddling with exposure times and whatnot to get the best shots. And for some reason my camera sometimes just wouldn’t focus properly. I eventually had to trash about half of my photos, but oh, well, that’s what digital cameras are for. Had to do a lot more post-processing than usual, too; apart from the standard cropping and resizing, almost all the pictures had noise that needed to be smoothed out.

But it was all worth it. My first fireworks pictures, folks!

Let there be light!