Christeph: On the Lam

Steph mentioned it briefly in the red bullet post, but we went to the awesomest fireworks show last weekend. The small city of Omagari hosts this big competition each year, wherein the 30 top fireworks makers of Japan compete for top honors. This means that instead of a typical half-hour show where most of the impressive stuff is in the last few minutes, Omaragi is a three hour boomfest consisting of individual 3-4 minute shows by each company — where every show is a grand finale. Pretty awesome.

I took lots of pictures–maybe more than you really want to see of fireworks (and I didn’t post them all). Unfortunately I didn’t bring my tripod to Japan, so I had to make do with bracing on my knees and hoping I didn’t shake too much. Most of these shots are 3 second exposures.

A few samples:

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