These pictures do not do justice to the fireworks display we experienced last night. The fireworks began at sundown 5:30p -6:00p and continued nonstop until 12:30a or so. The noise from 11:30p to 12:30a was incredible. I can only describe it as 25 marching bands going at full tilt with drums only! The sky was littered with color, smoke and ash and the acrid smell of burnt fireworks. Everyone, I mean everyONE....OK maybe every family in Shanghai lit fireworks. From every street corner and courtyard they were being fired off!! The city was all aglow with flower like bursts of color! The pictures above I took from our balcony shooting north west with a visibility of about 5 miles in spite of the smoke and ash. It was not a still night, there was some breeze so the smoke was moving along. I circled the 'fireworks' in white. Since I don't know how to shoot at night and by the time I realized I should take some pictures it was past midnight and I became frantic to get some shots for you to see. Had I thought about it sooner I could have set the camera to rapid fire and probably even have figured out how to do 'night' shooting. I did bring the book for the Canon camera, which is the camera that I used for these shots. I will start reading the book so I can better capture pictures for your viewing pleasure!
These pictures are shot from the south west corner of the balcony straight down on to the street below. It was incredible.
You can see sparkles of light behind buildings which are just other fireworks being shot off on other streets. I circled them for you.
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