Posts Tagged ‘fireworks’

Fireworks Flashback: 7/4

‘D.C. Fireworks’
courtesy of ‘Dwood Photography’
Ah, Eh, Oh…and sometimes Y! Just 364 days until Fourth of July 2012. Until next year, sit back and relive the wonder and beauty of the pyrotechnics!

‘Ground burst’
courtesy of ‘ianseanlivingston’
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IMG_8562b by D©Bloom
Independence Day has come and gone, but I couldn’t resist highlighting this patriotic moment captured by D©Bloom.  While our Flickr pool was inundated with oodles of “Ooooo!” and “Ahhhhh!” photos of the fireworks on display at the National Mall, we see a more personal and patriotic celebration here of Uncle Sam launching some [...]

Aaaaand They’re Back

‘Friday night fireworks at Nationals Park’
courtesy of ‘randomduck’
It seems that the great-fireworks controversy at Nationals Park has drawn to an end a mere 24 hours after it started.  You may recall that DC Fire Chief Dennis Rubin suspended the displays after debris fell on him during a game on Sunday.  After what must have been some [...]

No More Fireworks (for now)

‘Fireworks’
courtesy of ‘randomduck’
WAPO reports that the fireworks displays at Nats Park were suspended by DC Fire Chief Dennis Rubin after ash fell on him while he attended a game.  While he was not injured, and there have been no fire concerns up to this point, the Chief wishes to conduct a safety review before the displays are reinstated. If [...]

DC Neighbourhoods Ablaze!

Photo by Wayan
Washington DC has its official fireworks on the Mall, but forgive me I find them insignificant. For me, the formal symphony + lightshow is a distant second, if even ranked, when compared with the neighbourhood effort.
And that would be every neighbourhood in this city – from Congress Heights to Foggy Bottom, Park [...]

Fireworks Timelapse

So the weather tricked me into staying in, but I did get to view tonight’s pyrotechnics from a friend’s apartment with windows facing towards the Mall. My camera sat on a tripod, set to do a time lapse video at one-second intervals. Here is the result, consisting of 1,271 frames taken over a course of [...]

Fireworks and Storms

As often is the case for the Fourth of July in Washington, the weather has been largely unstable: heat and humidity mixing with occasional showers. We’re now just about a half-hour from the scheduled start of fireworks on the Mall at 9:10 AM, and another wave of showers with some lightning has just finished sweeping [...]