{"id":13559,"date":"2017-04-30T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2021-07-05T18:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:05:42","slug":"2021-july-4-local-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=13559","title":{"rendered":"2021 – July 4 Local Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For over 30 years, I was able to go on my roof via my personal roof door from a bedroom until 2 years ago when my relatively new – and out of his mind – landlord decided he didn\u2019t like me and blocked my roof door from being able to open.<\/span><\/p>\n

It kills me because of all the varieties of photography I was able to indulge in from there and all I can say now is that the battle isn\u2019t over.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it especially galls me around the 4th of July when I was able to see the pyrotechnic displays from at least a dozen surrounding towns AND the Macy\u2019s fireworks (10-15 miles away), whether their barges were on the Hudson River or the East River (though I prefer the much-nearer Hudson).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a typical shot that I took ten years ago. I\u2019m in Hackensack. The fireworks were in Englewood – 2 towns away!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Since this stupid ban, my fireworks photography has been severely reduced, but at least I had a shot at the Macy\u2019s ones last night\u2026\u2026\u2026..until the clouds and haze rolled in at dusk.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hackensack\u2019s fireworks got COVIDed last year and this year and that display was practically in my lap from my living room window, so that loss probably hurts the most.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some local amateurs shot their own off last night, but the better ones were to my west, meaning I could only shoot them through a dirty window in my kitchen with my camera on a tripod that had to be in my sink!<\/span><\/p>\n

My kitchen has old French (crank-out) windows that each have 6 segments, so I actually only have one of those little segments to shoot through, which really limited how high my frame would be, resulting in something like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Or something would slip in the sink during a time-exposure and\u2026\u2026..oops!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I almost got lucky with this one:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Enough – I\u2019ll take my chances with my east-facing living room window. Unfortunately, it seemed to be mostly occasional amateur fireworks in nearby towns with no way to time them, resulting in crappy shots like these:<\/span><\/p>\n

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TOTAL waste of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was about to pack it in when I suddenly heard a bunch of little explosions VERY nearby. I looked out the window and saw what I guess were firecrackers going off in small bunches in the new parking lot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suddenly, something a bit bigger was going off in a corner of a credit union parking lot about a block away:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bigger things started happening in the parking lot right below my window – mostly from parking space #125. Keep the package that\u2019s parked there in mind:<\/span><\/p>\n

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When it stopped, I could see an awful lot of smoke covering the lot. By the time I got the framing, focusing and exposure done, some it had dissipated, but you can still see enough of it to get the idea:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, yet another group was doing things on a smaller scale in the corner of the lot to my right:<\/span><\/p>\n

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They had shot off firecrackers in traffic cones and launched what appeared to be bottle rockets from those same cones. At one point, a police car showed up and I figured they\u2019d get chased away. The cop left, the guys stayed and shot off more stuff, including this time exposure of a bottle rocket taking off from Cape Cone-naveral:<\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll see more of them in the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So the night wasn\u2019t a total loss. It was fun trying to capture everything going on right in front of me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I got up this morning, I looked out the window to see if the lot was fire-scorched or explosion-scarred. It wasn\u2019t, but I DID see this in space #125:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had just gotten up and hadn\u2019t had breakfast yet, but I decided to go out and document whatever was left behind in this lot and the credit union lot before someone cleaned it all up. This lot (space #125):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit union lot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to this lot (the firecracker\/bottle-rocket crew):<\/span><\/p>\n

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And if you want to join the Space#125 club, it\u2019s 40 bucks a pop:<\/span><\/p>\n

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But you may have to go out-of-town to get one (or six):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh yeah\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..the video: <\/span><\/p>\n

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