Continuing my yearly tradition of shooting fireworks in black and white, here is this year’s contribution. I had wanted to shoot from around this vantage point last year, as Omaha had just opened the new baseball stadium (that you see all lit up in the previous photo), in the downtown area, and thought with the…
And then in the middle of it all, down it came in a trajectory towards the heart of downtown… unleashing particles of energy that blanketed the sky Then, rising above the buildings, it reared itself, balls of energy and fire building in it’s palms The coming terror filled hours, brought to a calm, when it…
This was just a shot inspired by Ang Lee, from his movie of Annie Proulx’s short story, ‘Brokeback Mountain’. There’s a scene in it where… (wait, let me hop on IMDb…) okay, where Ennis is at a fireworks show with his wife and kids, and there is just this beautifully composed shot of him in…
I had learned, in my first year of doing my achromatic fireworks series, that there has to be something other in the frame, besides the fireworks, otherwise it’s just a boring shot of fireworks, and in black and white, nonetheless! So, when I went this year to go shoot, and saw the firetruck parked alongside where the…
Taken from out my kitchen window, of the countless fireworks being set off throughout the town, neighborhoods… officially/legally, and unofficially/illegally on the Fourth of July.
The first year of, my tradition since, photographing fireworks in black and white. I was inspired to do so, from this photo, to the right here, that I found, somehow, somewhere, taken by I don’t know who (I just tried again to see if I could find out, by Googling ‘fireworks, black and white photograph,…
