The annual fireworks display during the last night of Princeton reunions is always a visual and aural treat. Garden State Fireworks creates quite a few custom-designed shells to launch into the air, and they choreograph the launches and bursts to music. Their ability to synchronize the explosions of multi-stage shells with musical beats is masterful.
Photographing fireworks with a point-and-shoot camera set to auto-focus can be somewhat hit or miss. You just have to take lots of pictures and toss out ninety percent. Trying to use manual focus would have been too much of a distraction from enjoying the show. I did get a few decent shots.
They remind me of celestial phenomena, something that Hubble might capture…
…or that Enterprise might fly past.
The fireworks are so close you can feel the shockwave, especially the grand finale…
Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo got in the way of my shot, unfortunately.
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