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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Ninety-two: Cruising the Inland Passage from Charleston to Jacksonville > Fiery finale, Holiday Light Boat Parade, St. John’s River, Jacksonville, Florida, 2014
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29-NOV-2014

Fiery finale, Holiday Light Boat Parade, St. John’s River, Jacksonville, Florida, 2014

This water-borne spectacle concludes with the city’s largest fireworks display of the year. I end this gallery with a spectacle -- an image combining a smoke-laden sky illuminated by fireworks exploding within fireworks. I used a 24mm wideangle focal length to embrace not only the smoky sky and the pair of explosions, but also the richly colored reflections in the river, and the floodlighted towers of the city’s signature Main Street Bridge. I made this nighttime photograph from the eighth floor window of my riverside hotel room, using a slow seventeenth of a second shutter speed, combined with a very high ISO of 6400.

FujiFilm X-T1
1/17s f/3.5 at 16.0mm iso6400 full exif

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Phil Douglis02-Jan-2015 21:27
Thanks, Carol. The smoke from a previous explosion does indeed make a fitting background for the merging bursts of fireworks here.
Carol E Sandgren02-Jan-2015 18:11
Looks like melting fireworks with the blurry clouds of smoke in amongst them. Love this!
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