July 2023

This year we happened to be in town for two nights of fireworks.  We had choices - we could have gone to the English Bay Beach or Kits Beach but the kids wanted to watch from the Burrard street Bridge.  Tonight's fireworks are sponsored by Mexico and I think they tried to do a mexico flag (Green, white red) burst of fireworks.

I used to hand trigger the photographs of the fireworks.  Using a cable release, I could time the exposure for roughly 1 to 6 seconds and I would mentally accumulate the image - shorter exposures for scenes with lots of fireworks, longer exposures if not much is going on.  Taking a timelapse doesn't really let me do that - I get roughly 200 photos (10 per minute x 20 minutes) to pick from, but they are all the same exposure.  The goal for me is to a few good photos and 200 generally gives me enough choices.

I thought for a second night the kids would want to go to one of the beach, but nope, bridge again.  This night was "performed" by the Philipines.  I actually had trouble remembering the Philipines flag (Blue, white and red with a golden yellow sun) and the people around me couldn't remember either. 

 
If there is one thing I could say I did differently here - i stuck around later so I could watch the crowds of boats and people drain.  I should stick around even longer, but generally someone needs to go pee and it's a bit of walk off the bridge to where we get picked up.