Where are your 4th of July Pictures?

It's hard to do the work of a photographer when you actually do help to shoot fireworks shows! I'm usually busy doing other stuff (safety/fire watch, actually shooting the pinboard) and don't want to get distracted with the camera.

What about 3rd of July? Some cities (including a few near me) do that, y'know? Well, I do know. And we did show up to one for the city of La Mirada, CA. The trouble is it looked like pretty much ALL of the city showed up. Lugging the gear around, plus tripod, plus a couple of chairs/water/eats over a mile with my wife wasn't in my list of things to do that day. So we went by Redbox, got a couple of movies we've been wanting to see (Monuments Men being one of them - highly recommended) and spent the evening at home. Date night, so to speak. And that's fine.

I love pyro, but I've gotten to the point where accessibility and access are a concern. Maybe next year we'll show up sooner. We'll see.