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On Thursday evening we went downtown to watch the Canada Day fireworks (along with several thousand other people!) Great night for it; warm and wind free. We had a nice stroll along the 8th avenue mall and saw some interesting buildings along the way.
And who knew we had such cool old doors in Calgary?
Waiting for the fireworks.
Oooh!!! Ahhh!!!
The fireworks were great, but my photos are rubbish. I've never tried to take pictures of fireworks before and obviously, there's more to it than just pointing the camera skyward. The good news is that the Calgary Stampede starts next week, so I'll have 10 nights to practice. I'd better do some reading before then and see if I can learn the secrets.
The Calgary Tower had the flame lit to celebrate Canada Day. Can't really see it from this angle, you'll just have to take my word for it.
A walk on Tom Campbell's hill on Friday morning.
After our walk we went to the River Cafe on Prince's Island for lunch.
I meant to take pictures of the food, but between the wine and the chit chat, I didn't remember until there was nothing but empty plates in front of us. It was delicious though!
Last night, the planets and the stars must've been aligned in our favour because 2 very busy mutual friends just happened to have a free night at the same time, so we had a little impromptu party. Sure we see Trudy every day, but we don't often get to do more than exchange quick greetings as we're coming & going and the only time we see Kaycee is when Cindy is in town. It was nice to have a chance to catch up again.
So now Cindy & Karel are gone and our house feels pretty empty. (Sigh!)
On the bright side, the bouquet of flowers from Shirley is shrinking, but still beautiful!
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Let me know the secrets of taking fireworks shots. I missed the big July 4 fireworks here, but there was plenty of evidence on the beach the next day, some of which I picked up and threw away. Into a garbage can that had the bottom rusted completely through, so then I picked it up again and threw it into another one. Tonight I'll check out the sunset setting on my camera, as I go on the big pirate ship for a sunset cruise. arrr.
Weird. I'm seeing double. I tried to delete one of the above, but Blogger wouldn't let me.
Anyway, for fireworks my reading shows that I need to set the camera to the BULB setting with an aperture of between f8-f16 and an ISO of 100. Then use a remote to hold the shutter open for 1-4 seconds. Unfortunately, I broke my tripod and I don't want to shell out for another one right now. Maybe I'll try balancing the camera on the bench in the park or Dan's shoulder.
P.S. arrr, have fun on the cruise!
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