Fireworks

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.

Our local area BBC (bbc tyne) website has been asking for images of tall ships throughout the festival, so I decided to send some images of the fireworks into their website.

Well today I got notification they had put two of my images on the website, one on the homepage.
Well I was very happy to see my images up on their website, made my day

No one else was on this bridge taking images, well not seriously. Images at the festival site turned out to be limited and too much smoke around. I am glad I shifted to the bridge now.

But it does not end there…

I got a call from a gentleman tonight asking if it was the person that had taken the images. It turns out he is the owner of the Fireworks display company and he wants to know If he can use my images on his web site and if I would sell some high resolution images to the company.

I was like WOW , you should have seen the smile on my face

The owner has decided to take two image from me, I retain all rights. He just wants to use them for internal use.

Here is a link to my photos that night images

On a non photography subject, at the age of 36, I played my first game of cricket, I was 11 not out, now that was cool too