Busy Day yesterday...I missed some of your posts
Hoping to catch up today
Hoping to catch up today
Week #6 for me participating in Roger's Creative Photography Contest...click on the banner above if you want to learn more and enter or just feel like sliding around the Bloggosphere and checking out some really fantastic photos...
This was taken this past July 4th...Germantown, TN put on a pretty cool fireworks display for a small town. Nancy darlin' and I were so close, many of them were bursting nearly on top of us...
The only adjustment that I made was to blacken the sky around these two bursts - they were shooting in a parking lot and they had left all the lights on in the lot, so there was some ambient light that made the sky 'blotchy' and I just wanted an even blackness to illuminate the bursts.
They were separate bursts that I captured with two separate shots, double-exposing in the camera if you will...The red one was popular that evening and they were heart-shaped..Hope y'all enjoy...(to enlarge...well, just click)
This was taken this past July 4th...Germantown, TN put on a pretty cool fireworks display for a small town. Nancy darlin' and I were so close, many of them were bursting nearly on top of us...
The only adjustment that I made was to blacken the sky around these two bursts - they were shooting in a parking lot and they had left all the lights on in the lot, so there was some ambient light that made the sky 'blotchy' and I just wanted an even blackness to illuminate the bursts.
They were separate bursts that I captured with two separate shots, double-exposing in the camera if you will...The red one was popular that evening and they were heart-shaped..Hope y'all enjoy...(to enlarge...well, just click)
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Going to leave you with two tunes today...both came up on my iTouch yesterday...the first I had not heard in a loooong time. When it came out in 1972 it was popular, but then it kept rising up the charts and in May of 1973 as the #1 hit in America...It got so you could hear it playing on different radio stations at the same time....For me radio killed this song, but yesterday when it came on....I listened and it really is a remarkable piece of music.
From their first album THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT - the Edgar Winter Band included Dan Hartman, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff. The song is "Frankenstein" and it pioneered the use of the synthesizer as a lead instrument.
I saw them perform this in Rochester in the spring of 1973...I preferred when he played with Rick Derringer, but Hartman, Montrose and Ruff are all excellent musicians in their own right.
The second song is by Susan Tedeschi in concert with her husband's band, The Derek Trucks Band. It is entitled "Just Won't Burn". I just L-O-V-E this song...Her vocals and guitar work are just incredible.
ENJOY....
From their first album THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT - the Edgar Winter Band included Dan Hartman, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff. The song is "Frankenstein" and it pioneered the use of the synthesizer as a lead instrument.
I saw them perform this in Rochester in the spring of 1973...I preferred when he played with Rick Derringer, but Hartman, Montrose and Ruff are all excellent musicians in their own right.
The second song is by Susan Tedeschi in concert with her husband's band, The Derek Trucks Band. It is entitled "Just Won't Burn". I just L-O-V-E this song...Her vocals and guitar work are just incredible.
ENJOY....
Wow what a awesome shot! Thanks for your Creative Photography submission Vin!
Great fireworks photo! Very cool.
hate to be so stupid, but what is itouch
and this weekend would be great, but whenever you get around to it in regards to my blog rework
They look like graffiti... interesting.
For a minute there I actually read iCouch... rut-roh!
Great shot Vin. I do so love fireworks. Cheers!!
The Photo is very nicely done. It's a winner in my book, but then, I don't have an award to give.
Love the tunes, and you're right the vocals and guitar licks on "Just Won't Burn" are very tasty. Thank you for sharing them with us.
I like that totally blackened sky effect. Very cool.
ROGER: Glad you liked it...now can I get the home addresses of the judges this week? LOL
JAY: Thank you Sir...
CHARLENE: It is an iPod...looks just like the iPhone, but does not have phone capabilities 16 GB of memory
ANNDI: Still had sleep in your eyes?
MATT-MAN: Thank you my friend...
DRILLERAA: LOL well I appreciate the fact that you would give me one IF you had one...And glad you enjoyed the tuneage
TRAVIS: Thanks ...appreciate it
At the beginning of "Just Won't Burn" there were a few "squeaks", that set my dog on fire barking, hehehe. Great tune this morning, feeling a little bluesy.
Thanks!
excellent photo mr bond
I love those fireworks! We had smiley face ones in Seattle that were really cool.
Susan is the shiz =)
LOVE Tedeschi!!
And I really like what you do with your pics
The fireworks picture is really cool. And I need to listen to Susan Tedeschi's song......Be back.
Great post!
Great shot. Fireworks are sometimes hard to capture. GOod luck
they left the lights on!? actually now I'm thinking everyone leaves the lights on - I get confused :)
fireworks are so hard to capture - this is a great shot!
That photo is absolutely fantastic, bond. Very well done.
Wow. I've always heard that fireworks are hard to shoot - LOVE this shot!
LOVE this! And that song by Susan Tedeschi is awesome. Love her voice!
Fireworks with a heart! How cool is that!
Thats a pretty shot and very creative.
Woo, nifty picture!
MICKEY-T: Making a note to remove the squeaks
SARGE: Thank you sir
STARRLIGHT: Thanks...and I agree about Susan
MIMI: Thanks and you must listen it is fantastic
SANDEE: Thank you for visiting...I have been shooting fireworks for years and found little tricks
DIANNE: I was surprised they did not turn them off...but...Thanks
RWA: Thank you Sir...you honor me
TUG: You need to play with exposure and timing to get them right...glad you enjoyed
LESLIE: Welcome to The Couch..glad you enjoyed the photo and the music
RAVEN: They had many of the heart this year...Welcome to The Couch
GENNY: Thank you very much...hope you enjoyed your stay
BECKEYE: Thanks!
Lovely fireworks, especially the heart. It was good to blacken the ambient light pollution at lower altitudes.
For Edgar Winter, I totally enjoy 'Keep Playing That Rock & Roll', I think from around 71-72. With the brass. Love it!
RALPH: Thanks and yes, you have to darken the sky or it is mottled and gray...Great song also...from the WHITE TRASH album - 1971
Oh how cool is that picture!?! Way to go...it reminds me of the journey albumn cover.
Very nice shot - the even black does work well for showing off those works! :D
Thanks for stopping by to comment on my entry today. :)
That is a really great picture! I have tried taking some fireworks photographs this year but they just haven't turned out the way that I'd like them to. Too much smoke and I'm not talented enough with a photo editor program to figure out how to filter it out. I really like the way you darkened the sky and how it makes the fireworks themselves pop right out of the picture!
Good luck to you!
Fireworks!! They're one of the most beautiful things on earth to capture. Nice one you've got here, especially with it looking pretty artistic.
Great Photo! I love that heart shaped one! I tried to take a couple pictures this year. I was too excited to watch them than focus the camer!
TURNBABY: Somehow your comment went missing...Glad you like the pic and Susan is wonderful
MAGS: Why thank you
LORI: Glad you enjoyed and Thanks for sitting on The Couch
LINDA: You just have to keep trying ...they are not as difficult as most think...they just take patience
NAPABOANIYA: Thanks and thank you for sitting on The Couch
MICHELLE: LOL yes that happens..you miss some when taking pictures
Very nicely done fireworks photo. I love the heart. ;-)
Like Linda, I have trouble taking fireworks shots. There is always too much smoke, then they get blurry.
I posted some blurry ones anyway. I'm brave like that.
Hey Vin congratulation's!!!!!
Your this weeks #1 in Creative Photography!
Come over and pick up your award.
I'm back to congratulate you on winning #6 Creative Photography!! :)
Woohoo!!! *claps*
Congratulations! A well deserved win.
PATTI: Thanks...ALways be brave with photography
ROGER: I am honored..thanks Roger
NAPA: Thank you
STAR: Hey thanks so much
CONGRATS to you!! Well deserved!
YAY! Very well deserved, Vinny - congrats. I absolutely LOVE your photo... I'm a huge fan of fireworks... and I s*ck badly at taking photos of it. Too many "Ooooh"s and "Aaaaah"s I guess. That's why I love your photo even more. You id a fantasic job!
((((HUGS))))
S.
Congratulations on winning the Creative Photography Contest! That truly was a wining picture and someday I hope I can get fireworks to look like that, too!
Congrats on winning Roger's contest.
Your award is much deserved. It's a wonderful photo. I would get a print made and frame it, if I were you.
Trying hard to be brave (in a photographic sense),
Patti
Bravo, bravo (clap,clap) congratulations you are this week's winner ! It's true your picture is very beautiful !!
Congratulations on winning the Creative Photography! You deserved it!