2008 Bridgefest Fireworks

The rain stayed away all day yesterday, and we ended up having a beautiful day in the Keweenaw. The Bridgefest activities were in full swing, but we ended up heading to the Eastern shore to check out a few places we haven’t been to yet (more about that later).

We did, however, make it to the fireworks display. We do not go down by the water because traffic gets really congested and with trying to take some pictures of the fireworks we wanted to find a place that wasn’t as busy.

In past years, we have set up viewing camp at the top of a poor rock pile on US 41. The last year we went there, they set off the fireworks too far down the canal for us to see them well from there. We had to find a new spot.

We ended up finding a nice spot near the old hospital in Hancock in a church parking lot. We couldn’t see the water because of the trees, but the fireworks shot up above the tree line. Besides us, there was only a few other people there. The paved parking lot was great for a tripod.

Most of my pictures didn’t come out quite right. I tried one setting and went with it throughout the show (I didn’t want to miss the action!). I did catch a few okay shots.

I will read up more on how to photograph fireworks so hopefully I can get some better pictures next time. I think a lot of it has to do with my timing since the pictures I took yesterday seemed to get better as the show went on.

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