My 4th of July celebrations included attending a friend’s party and walking from her house to a fireworks‘ display called Red White & Blue Ash Fireworks!  It’s located in Blue Ash, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cincinnati and there were over 100,000 people there!  Midnight Special and Cheap Trick were the bands playing and the Rozzi Fireworks were spectacular!  I took my tripod to capture the fireworks.  It was my first time and I had my settings on 8 seconds at 8 F-Stop.  In Lightroom 5, I edited some of the smoke out by increasing my black and contrast.

One of my friends took my photo with my camera.  As you can see it was a beautiful day…low humidity and 78 degrees!

My friend Frank had a temporary tattoo on his head…

Here are a couple more of the fireworks…

A guy was holding this up in the air at the Concert…

Here’s Cheap Trick…

This is a girlfriend’s darling daughter hula hooping!

I had a great time!  Hope your 4th was wonderful!

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