Monday was Victoria Day in Canada, in celebration of the Queen's birthday. One can say V-Day is the sister holiday to Memorial Day (and not 4th of July! *cough*) in the States. As with all Victoria Day from years past, it's the first holiday of the year where people can enjoy setting off their own fireworks.
With great angst, I decided to delay my viewing of 24 and Heroes's season finale to go out and watch the fireworks display at Vandorf Community Park near Aurora. I really didn't expect much of a show, since this was a small community show. But it was a good opportunity to test TochiCam in a night setting. The next big fireworks display would be July 1st - too far away.
Overall, the show was rather subpar, but there was a really good community atmosphere. Seeing the little kids running and dancing around to the music. Everyone had sparkers and glow sticks. It was very nice to hang out on such a beautiful night. ;-)
I had a much harder time taking fireworks pictures with my dSLR than my old Nikon, mainly because I didn't know how to use the camera. Eventually, I figured out how to adjust the aperature and exposure time settings properly and made liberal use of the continuous shooting mode. I collected the best of the photos of the night and uploaded them to Flickr. Enjoy!
P.S. I got back just in time to catch Heroes, and then spent the next 2 hrs watching Doyle being dumb and Jack saving the world... again.