playing with fire...

playing with fire..., a photo by credd on Flickr.

friday night...
i watched the creative live presentation on photographing fireworks...
by john cornicello.

i've photographed them before...
but i'm always in search of additional photography knowledge.

since his talk was in the daytime...
and he couldn't actually demonstrate with fireworks...
he used sparklers.

the actual shoot is here...
and a supplemental blog post is here.

so...
yesterday...
i went in search of some for myself.

and guess what?
no sparklers in my town.

well...
on the way home from church today...
i decided to purchase some...
from some of the towns where fireworks ARE legal.

these are not the sparklers of my childhood.
while i was expected more of a starry effect...
what i got was more of a flame...
with a few sparkles here and there.

so...
i light painted instead.

***

i just wanna say...
people are SERIOUS about their fireworks.
we saw people spending HUNDREDS of dollars.

me...
i spent $7...
and it was bogo...
so i have 80 sparklers...
and tonight i only lit 7.