POTW - Fireworks Friday!!

A few Fireworks Friday shots from Japan this past December:
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I wasn't there with any intention to shoot Illuminations - but after dinner at Via Napoli, I was working my way back to the Epcot resort entrance and the show started - the darkness and crowds in the main path forced me to stand aside in Japan and I decided to take a few shots.
(these are composites - the fireworks were with F22 exposures of about 5-10 seconds each, then stacked with an exposure of just the pavilion and buildings so I could get them better lit!).
 
For my final night of Star Wars Weekends, I wanted to get photos of the Star Wars characters as they walked backstage after the stage show before the fireworks. After they passed by, I stuck around and took some handheld shots of Symphony In The Stars. Not bad, eh?


Sci-fi symphony
 
Does this count? Friday June 19 - didn't stay for the Magic Kingdom fireworks, but nature was putting on its own firework show over Grand Floridian:
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Taken handheld, sitting in a metal boat, on the water, while it was raining (used an RX10 weather-sealed camera that day as the rains were off and on the whole time and I didn't feel like carrying a bag or tripod).
 
So we used a Fastpass+ for Wishes since we knew we would not be arriving in the WDW area until late afternoon and had a dinner ADR, and we were very pleased with it! I have not watched Wishes this close in some 5 years as I refuse to deal with the masses near the hub, but now? I also botched the focal length real bad on this set, but you live and you learn.

Fireworks Friday by John Wolff, on Flickr
 
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