{"id":628,"date":"2010-01-01T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=628"},"modified":"2010-01-04T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T06:00:26","slug":"petite-fireworks-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2010\/01\/petite-fireworks-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Petite Fireworks Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I still haven’t decided if this Blog is purely professional or still borderline personal, so here is a non-work-related post. I might decide it’s rubbish and delete it in a few days, but for now, it shall live. Anyway.<\/p>\n

Happy new year! Yesterday Lilly and I had a tiny fireworks excursion for the occasion, partially in the name of her brother<\/a>, who is out in The Gambia, West Africa, in the Peace Corps. He is a fan of fireworks.<\/p>\n

We managed to find this tiny fireworks stand (pictured above), run by vaguely redneck-ish (but friendly!) people. We figured we’d start small for our first fireworks excursion and only got a few little bits and bobs, and I took a few nice pictures – more than I would post on Flickr in one chunk, so I thought why not write a blog about it! <\/p>\n

Here is our bounty: We got some colourful sparklers, some jumping jacks, some ground bloom crackling<\/em> and some happiness fountain<\/em>s.<\/p>\n

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The Happiness fountains were the best. The woman at the stand suggested them to us when Lilly asked for something colourful. They were. The packaging was just as good though:<\/p>\n

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\nThe package’s description was Emits showers of sparks shoots flaming balls and reports<\/em>. We were sold, especially on the reports (what?). They also managed to spell their own URL wrong too (legned), but I can’t be too critical of that as shamefully, I have done the same on a record cover I did a couple of years back. That taught me to proofread!<\/p>\n

And here we go:<\/p>\n

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\nI like this as it reminds me of jellyfish<\/p>\n

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Here is Lilly manning my new Flip Mino while I manned the Nikon
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I managed to attach a ground bloom crackling to a chain dangling from a tree, using the stick from a burnt out sparkler. The results were pleasing! I like the picture as I realised yesterday to not be afraid of High ISO speeds, even if they are really grainy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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