Hmmm... still not sure blogging is for me, but I though I would share an incident that happened recently that helped boost my enjoyment of photography, not that it really needed boosting.

We recently had a Tall Ships Race festival at a city local to me, Newcastle. The festival had been running all week, we went along on the Wed night which was the night before the ships departed for Norway on the last leg of the race. I knew in advance there was going to be a fireworks display, so my trusted tripod was taken along for the journey.

When I arrived at the festival you could not move for people, about 200,000 along the two mile stretch of the river front. I soon realised that I was not going to get a good shot of the fireworks as I was too close to the action, and far too busy to set the tripod up. So I enjoyed the festival atmosphere until about 30 mins before the fireworks was due to start, at which time I decided to leave the immediate vicinity and relocate to a bridge about ¾ miles away from the action. I got my self setup up on the bridge, tripod and cable release to the ready and got some nice shots.