Sullivan Fireworks 2014

Friday night, July 4th, I decided to set up on the West Overpass and hoped for light traffic, so I could shoot the fireworks show at the Fairgrounds. They were set to launch at 9:15 pm, and the timing was nearly perfect, the sunset faded just enough by then to actually give them good darkness. The altitude wasn`t nearly as high this year as it was last year, a few hundred feet lower it seemed like. Last year`s show trumped this year`s show by far, but I still managed to get some good shots and did see a few unusual looking bursts…not sure if they were planned out like that or just flukes, but some of them appeared to be half bursts instead of full bursts. I started out shooting the first few frames horizontally…..

01 Start of the Show

02 Lower Elevation Bursts

…and as you can tell in the next few shots, the bursts finally did gain a bit more altitude, but still short of the two years before….

04 Small Bursts Above Elmont Bridge

…and I believe the next image shows the only red, white, and blue colors I saw in the whole show….

05 Red White and Blue Bursts

…and here is one of those unusual bursts, half and half, not sure what happened to the rest of it, maybe it was supposed to give this effect….

07 Bright Red Half & Half Burst

08 Green & Gold Bursts

09 Multi Color Burst

14 Reds and Golds

15 Green Tipped Purple Burst

18 Red, Green, Gold and Blue

19 Red and Blue on Red and Green

21 Green and Gold Burst

22 Blue Tipped Green Burst

23 Red and Gold Burst

36 Red Tipped Green Burst

…and then from there on the bursts were the same colors like this next one…until the finale that lasted all of about five seconds…

39 Multi Colors Burst

..I normally can shoot about ten images during a finale, this time I was only able to capture two and a half….shortest finale I have ever seen in a fireworks show….not nearly as good as last year`s show, folks….I think someone got robbed….

42 Finale Shortlived