Celebration

Firstly, I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to Dmarc, who made my day/week/month by gifting me a blipfoto membership! So please do look in large! I will enjoy fiddling with stats and exploring what else I can do over the next few days:D

Yesterday I said I would try to get some fireworks shots and promptly found that the Edogawa display was today. It is considered to be Tokyo's 'best kept secret' firework display as only 1 million people turn up. hurrhurrhurr. In japan everyone sits when seeing the fireworks so you can all see, which makes things a lot more pleasant. Spaces are saved all day with blue tarpaulin, and many people wear yukatas or kimonos.

Fireworks (hanabi) in Japan are a lot bigger, longer and more sophisticated in the UK: Spherical explosions (most are 2d discs in the UK I think) with 3 concentric globes of sparks, of different colours, which change colour and flash at the end. Or cluster bombs that spread geometrically. Or star shaped explosions, or butterflies, or flowers.

I didn't have a small tripod which made it harder but could get some reasonably steady shots by holding it into the ground with the legs not fully out.

Bye Barbara