That was quite quick, about 20min after it hit it was gone and back to humid lol

I normally spot pic opportunities when i DONT have the camera lol. The rumble of thunder tipped me off this time.

Territory Day, a self-government (when it suits Canberra) celebration is one of Australia's last hold-outs of citizen fireworks. Apparently the other 99% of Ozzians can't be trusted with things that go bang in the night. I went to the official fireworks before the grandkids and I had some explosively quality time.

As most of you know, fireworks are shitfull/horrible/difficult thing to photograph. I took about 160 pics, playing with the shutter/aperture stuff on my digital SLR. Of 165 pics, I got about 40 good ones. Here are a sample.

Any of you who play this game know how hard this can be sometimes.

And again.

Lastly.

Where I'm at we have a massive burn ban because of the severe heat and subsequent lack of rain. Looks like no boom booms this year for the 4th.