There’s a danger in looking at images and sharing them too quickly after an event. On the Fourth of July, I raced home from Marblehead Neck on my bicycle passing bumper to bumper traffic on the causeway. As soon as I walked in the door, I plugged my camera’s memory card in and hoped that some of the Marblehead fireworks images came out as nice as I remembered them.
I scanned the images quickly and selected three different views of the evening’s great show. It was only this weekend, when I had time to carefully review the images from the night, that I found this one image capturing a volley of fireworks as part of the grand finale to the Marblehead fireworks display.
Capturing this many discrete fireworks explosions without blowing them out is rare (and I can’t credit anything other than luck). The various explosions helped fill the frame with light of varying colors and even the central explosion held its own interesting cloud structure.
Though coming over a week after the end of the show, I have to say this might end up as my favorite image of the 2015 Marblehead Fireworks display.