This image is from a new gallery I just put up called--guess what!--Fireworks. The effects I ended up with were not intentional, just one of those happy accidents that resulted from lots of luck and a bit of ignorance. But that's OK. Photography's like that sometimes!
By the way, this and all my fireworks photos are uncropped and unmanipulated except for the usual editing.
My thanks to the kind PBasers who left comments on this image earlier in the day. There was a computer glitch and I had to delete that image and start over.