-->

Saturday, September 28, 2013

September 28. Day 271. Going off






Because I am old, I can still remember when Brisbanites paid no attention to the river.
If people thought about it at all it was probably in one of three ways
1) As the dirty brown body of water that snaked through the city
2) As the thing that swamped the city during the 1974 floods or
3) As the divide between the Northside and Southside, a giant barrier that still defines what sort of Brisbane resident you are.
Not any more. Brisbane is now a river city and at this time of year more than any other were celebrate that.
It's Brisbane Festival time and tonight was the grand finale Riverfire, that annual celebration that brings about 100,000 people out to join in the fun.
Okay, it's probably incredibly environmentally irresponsible but I do love a fireworks display and living withing walking distance of South Bank it would have been quite wrong not to enjoy the display from the heart of the fun.
In honour of the occasion I tried out a new setting on the camera and my new remote shutter release. I can not claim to have perfected either but at least I gave it a go and the results are not all bad.

10 comments:

  1. Wow that is an impressive display. Cracking photos of them

    ReplyDelete
  2. Wow! I can never capture fireworks like that, or perhaps I've just never seen fireworks like that!

    ReplyDelete
  3. I absolutely love a good firework photo, and these are excellent ones! So bright and colourful. It's wonderful to see a city transform into something really beautiful isn't it?

    Thanks for linking up to Project 365.

    ReplyDelete
  4. brilliant! such dramatic shots - and those colours too. amazing x

    ReplyDelete
  5. Wow - fabulous fireworks shots. I have never managed to capture fireworks on my camera!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I google searched "how to photograph fireworks" before I went! True story

      Delete
  6. these to me look amazing, much better than "not at all bad". Its quite amazing how some parts of the country become acceptable not to mention expensive because somebody thought it should be.

    ReplyDelete