Journeys for Knowledge

Although this post is coming a month after my last one, it actually takes place the day after. November 5th is Guy Fawkes day, which in England is roughly the equivalent of July 4th. I say roughly because the only similarity is people gather together to set off tons of fireworks. Naturally this works out well for us in Okinawa, where fireworks are cheap and beaches to set them off are plentiful. Compared to my last set of photos, I tried playing around with longer exposures and smearing images. Fireworks are fussy subjects, so you need to quick on your feet and with the shutter to capture the best moments, a stark contrast from the calm and careful shots I usually post here. Whereas the latter is like a well placed sniper shot, the former is erratic and scattered like a shotgun. Although you would think the pros would all take perfectly placed shots, sometimes it’s impossible to predict the perfect moment, so you just have to capture all of them.

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