A quick trip down to Portland to photograph the Independance Day fireworks. I had some problems in that I went with family members who weren't quite on the same time-scale as me, so we got there a bit late and were not oriented for where the barge in the river was. So, I shot from a distance with a tree blocking part of the view, but all was not lost...

When you take a large volume of shots of something like this, such as the 100+ I took this night, you kind of hope that you have a large number of "fails", but as you can see, fireworks are a lot like snowflakes -- each one unique, and if you get a good shot it's pretty much a keeper.