Maria and I went to watch a firework display Monday night in Toledo (locally known as “La Pólvora”), and it was much more spectacular than we had expected. The pictures don’t do it justice, but seeing as it’s my first ever attempt of …erm… shooting fireworks, I’ve decided to put them up anyway 🙂
Lady Of The Cakes 
I think the pictures are great! Fireworks are difficult to photograph.
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So everybody tells me… and too true! I took like a million pics, and these are the only ones that turned out vaguely OK.
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Wow!! Considering my photography is limited to quick shots grabbed on my Blackberry phone – I’m floored by your talent! These are brilliant pics!
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Oh, I do appreciate a bit of early morning sarcasm 🙂
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They are NOT BAD AT ALL! I love fireworks.
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Me too. Minus the noise. Should have taken earplugs.
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Gorgeous! Very surreal, and so sharp – I actually really like fireworks shots with an amateur camera. Speaking of which – I have mine with me today! Proud?
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YES!!!! That’s the first step. Now you’ve got to aim it at something and pull the trigger 😉
Give us a Moscow shot for tomorrow. This is your challenge. Maybe that bridge…?
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Lol, no pressure! Actually that bridge is far, and I only see it on my beach trips. But challenge accepted – I took a few pix of the old town Moscow on my pre-work walk this morning, and I guess I can put up a semi-wordless post while working on the actual article-y bits (the beer one is half-way done-ish? plus 2 more in the works).
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That’s my strategy as well! People seem to like pictures, though the best ones usually come about when you don’t expect it. I’ve always got my camera with me, it’s not much bigger than a phone.
Looking forward to the pics and the beer 🙂
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Lovely fireworks, I do so love them! You did a great job on these by the way…thanks for posting them, I sigh!
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Thanks 🙂
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I think those pictures are actually pretty damned good you know! Fireworks are hard to snap. Spain knows how to do a firework display! I think some of the best fireworks I have ever seen were at Las Fallas. What a lovely Monday night treat! 🙂
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And quite unexpected… I thought we were just going for a meal.
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First attempt? Haha you should see my first attempt in comparison – there are only little tiny specks of firework in them for the first bunch! I figured it out a little later, but my first attempts certainly didn’t turn out like these (which are lovely).
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Yes, but I took 3,000,000,000 pics and those eight were the only usable ones!
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They are very good, well done. I’ve never managed any that look other the “abstract”!
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My camera has a “fireworks” setting, and it sort of seems to work. Trouble was, on that night, we had a full moon, and that blasted thing ruined most of the shots!
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