suns along the Mohawk

I hope you got to see this year’s Independence Day Fireworks from Rivers Casino at Mohawk Harbor in person. Like the first version, in 2017, it was a fine show. And, like last year, I saw them with a just-right-sized crowd in Riverside Park.

However, my camera, monopod, and shutter finger continued their fireworks revolt, as I tried to capture the Mohawk Harbor July 4th display, with unconventional results. (See JJF 2018, for another recent example) The randomly fashioned images are, nonetheless, like my children, and I appreciate them for their unique attributes and beauty. They’re fun to play with, too. I hope you enjoy the inadvertently pretty, and pretty strange, images

Click on any of the photos in this posting, including those in the mosaic below, for a larger version whose details I hope will please you.

• All the photos were taken from Riverside Park, near the play lot, looking east toward the CSX/Amtrak trestle and Mohawk Harbor.  I got to enjoy them with Julianna, Richard, Laura, Finnegan and Jim. Plus, Good Doggie McKee, who agreed that the distance made the explosions a lot more tolerable. A slight dip in temperature and breeze even made the historic heat wave bearable.

• For a bit more photo-realism, see Erica Miller’s photo gallery in the Schenectady Gazette (July 5, 2018), taken from Freeman’s Bridge Road.

Next year, maybe I’ll experiment some on the shorter, July 3 fireworks show from Rivers Casino. Then, on the 4th, work to capture a good portion of the fireworks as they actually look in the sky. And, also see what serendipity and a shaky monopod yield to surprise my inner child and Independence muse.

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