There’s a funny story behind these fireworks photo. We finished dinner about 10 minutes before the fireworks show was scheduled to start at 9.00 p.m. My tripod was still in the car and our parking slot was a good 5-minute walk away. My husband went to get the tripod and he got back just a few seconds before the fireworks show started. By then, I already realized that the clamp that attaches the camera to the tripod was in the bag inside the locker. Too late to get it. Of course, my husband didn’t think it was amusing that he had to hurry back and forth only to find out I wouldn’t be able to use the tripod anyway.
So the following photos were taken without a tripod. Guess my hand is still steady enough to take these slow shutter speed shots.
These photos bring back memories, sweet memories. Our family in Laguna used to manufacture fireworks. I remember being old enough to help in production and set up for shows in different towns in Laguna and Batangas. With the advent of martial law in the 70′s and the subsequent passing of my grandfather, the business that sent us to school abruptly died.
The firework galore that you saw must have been made from our barrio by my uncle and his son who are continuing the tradition.
Two years after not seeing any firework display in our town, I finally saw a spectacular one in San Diego on my first 4th of July Independence Day in the states in 1975.
On Tuesday, we’re celebrating another 4th, and like in the past we’re always out in the mall parking lot watching the show that my grandfather and father left me to remember them by.
Joe
I love fireworks display. I didn’t know it was an industry in Laguna before Martial Law. WHen I was a kid, we used to go to Bocaue in Bulacan to buy fireworks.